Anyone successfully daytrade futures @ work?

I agree with tradersaavy's quote:

If you are home from your job by 2:00 PM, you can change your sleeping schedule a bit and trade the European contracts. The Eurostoxx, Dax, Ftse and Bund are all much cheaper to trade as well. The European exchange fees are much lower than the US markets.

Riskless

Quote from tradersaavy:

I too am making the transistion from full time 9a - 5p eastern time job to trading full time. So, in the mean time I get up at frickin 3am and trade the European futures. I look at the US market while at work but, like someone else said in this post, a bit risky not being able to totally focus. The European futures markets (CAC40, ESTX, Bund ) do trend and are very liquid.
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one -third of the world markets are open at any given point of time.

For EST :
1.Tokyo -evening to late night
2.London - early morning - NY open
3.New York -

Since we cannot trade New York, the next best option is Tokyo or London.

Till now I find Tokyo to be better as London usually follows Tokyo in the morning and New York in the evening.
 
Quote from rgowka1:

one -third of the world markets are open at any given point of time.

For EST :
1.Tokyo -evening to late night
2.London - early morning - NY open
3.New York -

Since we cannot trade New York, the next best option is Tokyo or London.

Till now I find Tokyo to be better as London usually follows Tokyo in the morning and New York in the evening.
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rgowka, riskless & tradersaavy thanks for your input.

I checked out the Hong Kong market earlier today. They seem to have a fairly good liquidity in the HSI & MHI futures contracts. IB makes it easy to trade HK.

Tokyo could also be worthwhile investigating. Is there a liquid futures market there? Recommended broker and other considerations for Tokyo? /J
 
Quote from ewile:

>As far as trading foreign markets...go for it...IB makes it very easy. I've traded the SPI (Austrailia) and the Heng Seng (Hong Kong)
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Ewile, where do you get the charts for those futures? Qcharts doesn't offer that many of those charts.

Lojze
 
Note on foreign futures: Australian SPI can be quite thin. The Hang Seng, last I checked, requires a hefty margin. (like $16k) but is completely electronic and liquid and trends well at times. The Nikkei trends well and has nice range. One thing I like about the European markets is there is a correlation between DAX, CAC, ESTX and the Bonds - BUND, BOBL. The ESTX and BUND/BOBL trade from 100k to 300k+ average daily volume.
 
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