Trade Micron (MU) 24/7. Nights, weekends, earnings.
Micron is the only American company making DRAM at scale, and its stock never sits still. Your broker does. The MU market on Hyperliquid runs every hour of every day, and Based is the self-custody wallet that gets you into it. No brokerage account, no bank account.
Micron Technology (MU)
$964.34-1.5%24h
Nasdaq · United States · quoted in USD
Memory stocks do not keep market hours
Memory is the most cyclical corner of the chip industry, and the news that moves it rarely lands between 9:30 and 4.
Start with earnings. Micron reports after the close, and the stock routinely gaps hard before regular trading resumes. By the time a brokerage order fills the next morning, the move already happened. On Based you can trade the print the minute the numbers hit.
Then there is Korea. Micron's two real competitors, SK Hynix and Samsung, both trade in Seoul, thirteen hours ahead of New York. When SK Hynix posts blowout HBM numbers, Seoul reprices the whole memory complex overnight while US brokers are dark, and MU follows at the open. Traders on Based do not have to wait for that open.
And the HBM cycle itself has become a weekend sport. Supply agreements, capacity headlines and AI capex news drop whenever they drop. A market that is closed most of the week is a bad fit for a stock like this. That is the case for trading MU here, and it goes for SanDisk and the rest of the memory group too.
Based hours vs broker hours
| When can you trade MU? | Based | Traditional broker |
|---|---|---|
| Weekdays, 9:30am to 4pm ET | Open | Open |
| Weeknights | Open | Closed, or limited after-hours sessions |
| Saturdays and Sundays | Open | Closed |
| Market holidays | Open | Closed |
What you are actually trading
Straight answer: a perpetual future that tracks the MU share price on Hyperliquid, which is a decentralised platform. Based is the self-custody wallet you trade it from, not a broker. You get the price exposure, long or short, with leverage if you want it. You do not get dividends or a vote at the shareholder meeting, and like any perp the position carries liquidation risk and pays funding while open. If the goal is trading the memory cycle rather than collecting a small dividend, that trade-off is the point.
Fees are flat and public: stock perps start at 0.011% taker and 0.005% maker, all-in, before any staking discounts. The full schedule is on the fees page.
Related memory and chip markets
Prefer the hard-to-reach stuff? Based also carries a SpaceX (SPCX) market, and a direct route to SK Hynix without an ADR in sight.
Frequently asked questions
- Where can I buy MU stock?
- Any US broker sells Micron during exchange hours. Based is the way to trade MU when the exchange is closed: the market on Hyperliquid runs 24/7, including weekends and holidays, and you trade from a self-custodial wallet with no brokerage account and no bank account. What you trade through Based is a perpetual future that tracks the MU price, not the underlying share.
- Can I trade Micron on weekends?
- Yes. The MU market on Based stays open on Saturdays and Sundays. Weekend prices come from live trading on Based rather than sitting frozen at Friday's close, so you can react to news the moment it breaks.
- Do I need a brokerage account to buy MU?
- Not with Based. Based is a self-custody wallet, not a broker: you connect the wallet, fund it with USDC and trade on Hyperliquid. There is no application, no approval wait and no bank account requirement. You are trading a perpetual future that tracks MU, so you get price exposure without owning the share, with liquidation risk and funding fees like any perp.
- What happens when Micron reports earnings?
- Micron reports after the US market closes. On a traditional broker you watch the stock gap and wait for the next open. On Based the MU market just keeps trading through the print, so you can add, cut or flip your position while the numbers are still fresh.
Start in three steps
- Step 1
Connect a wallet
Any self-custodial wallet works. No account application, no paperwork.
- Step 2
Fund it
Deposit USDC. You do not need a bank account to do it.
- Step 3
Trade 24/7
Stock perps, crypto perps and prediction markets. Nights, weekends, holidays.
Based is a self-custody wallet, not a broker. Markets are perpetual futures on Hyperliquid: derivatives with liquidation risk and funding fees, not the underlying stocks or coins.