GrassHopper67 / After hours – re. your post last night, I do trade futures off-hours like you and there are useful patterns there as well. Yes, it's often very slow but the Nikkei and London market opens tend to have a quick downdraft at the open followed by a bounce that I sometimes play. If /NKD has a good day in the US there's usually follow-up during Japanese trading hours. And so forth.
The best after-hours play is the one I can't do right now due to my timezone – it seems like around 4 or 5 am New York Time is when many of my futures start moving, especially energy and metals, and sometimes the biggest move of the day is in the 2 hours before market opens. But I'm sleeping and miss all the fun.
December 8th, 2017 at 2:58 pm
GrassHopper67 / After hours – re. your post last night, I do trade futures off-hours like you and there are useful patterns there as well. Yes, it's often very slow but the Nikkei and London market opens tend to have a quick downdraft at the open followed by a bounce that I sometimes play. If /NKD has a good day in the US there's usually follow-up during Japanese trading hours. And so forth.
The best after-hours play is the one I can't do right now due to my timezone – it seems like around 4 or 5 am New York Time is when many of my futures start moving, especially energy and metals, and sometimes the biggest move of the day is in the 2 hours before market opens. But I'm sleeping and miss all the fun.