Trading the Nikkei 225 – Trading US Evenings!

Published on: April 28, 2016

This video takes a look at the eMini Nikkei 225 trading on Osaka Securities Exchange.

One of the things that makes this an interesting market is that there’s a lot of US traders that have full time day jobs and want to trade after work. There’s not really much available for them as the US markets are really quiet in the US evenings.

There’s also a lot of Australian and Asian traders that don’t have access to a market with decent liquidity and volatility in their morning time. Many brokers don’t cover the Asian markets well and a lot of the Asian markets are very thin and volatile. Many traders feel comfortable with thicker markets like the eMini S&P500.

The eMini Nikkei opens at 9am Osaka time. 9 AM Osaka time is 8pm Eastern Time or 5PM pacific. That means for people in the US, the first session of the work is on Sunday evening. There’s another benefit for aspiring traders with day jobs – you have a market with good volume and good liquidity you can trade on a Sunday.

The market closes at 3:15pm Osaka time and opens again at 16:30 and stays open through to 3am Osaka time, presumably to take advantage of the US day session traders.

In terms of liquidity and volatility it’s very close to the eMini S&P500. Volume wise, we trade from 750,000 to over 1 million contracts per day.

This video discusses the market and walks through a trade there, comparing it to US markets.

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