Day traders, what's your trading time?

[i am nobody]

The best time to trade is defined by the moment when you get your signals. Every day it can be a different period. Can start early or late, and can last short or long. You never know it in advance.
The opening is most of the time a difficult one. Newbies should avoid the opening.

 

[Swan Noir]

On many days those that know how to trade before Europe closes can take the rest of the day off.

 

[Handle123]

Cl, GC and Eurex any time I am awake outside of ES.
ES up to hour before day session if there is a report, otherwise manually first 60 minutes or less.
Currencies before day session of ES.

I scalp just about every market I trade manually, just easy as I have evolved this way and basically I can't stand sitting behind screen all flipping day. It gets to a point this is so flipping boring.

I agree, opening is no place for newbie, wait ten minutes.

 

[lostman007]

Here is a question to day traders, what's your usual trading time? I usually skip the first 30 minutes to get a clear picture of today's market, I also don't open new positions in the last one of two hours so that I don't have to close a position in a rush.

But on the other hand, the high volatility in the first hour should be the golden time for day traders, I will very probably use it more in the future as I become more experienced.

Occasionally I trade in the pre-open time, mostly I go long the weakest stock in my watch list and close it in pre-open time too.

What about you?

I trade the first three hours of the day and that's it. Doing that time I only trade a clear setup !

 

[Unequivocaltim]

Easy...when data comes out.

 

[J_Smith]

Here is a question to day traders, what's your usual trading time? I usually skip the first 30 minutes to get a clear picture of today's market, I also don't open new positions in the last one of two hours so that I don't have to close a position in a rush.

But on the other hand, the high volatility in the first hour should be the golden time for day traders, I will very probably use it more in the future as I become more experienced.

Occasionally I trade in the pre-open time, mostly I go long the weakest stock in my watch list and close it in pre-open time too.

What about you?

New York Time

09:30 > 11:00..best time is from 09:30 to 10:00..blue chip stocks (BCS) + certain ETF's + certain BCS options

11:00 > 15:00..gardening

if raining..15:00 > 16:00..best time is from 15:30 to 16:00..ES + certain ETF's

J_S