Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig tradeandtimes.com. NS
Answer
tradeandtimes.com. 5 NS ns1.tradeandtimes.com.
tradeandtimes.com. 5 NS ns2.tradeandtimes.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.tradeandtimes.com. 5 A 170.130.202.74
ns2.tradeandtimes.com. 5 A 23.231.25.49
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0