Preventing Holiday Schedule Glitches in Automated Futures TradeE-mini Nasdaq-100 FuturesCME_MINI:NQ1!QuantByBoji Yesterday the market closed at 1:00 PM, and I still had two open positions. Normally my algorithm sends an “exit all” signal at 3:59 PM EST to close every futures contract, but it didn’t account for the holiday schedule. That glitch cost me $5,000 in just a few hours. Lesson learned.