Trading from Japan

>hopeful

Hope you didn't get caught up in that Nova mess
that I read about.

There is no problem shorting Japanese stocks. Not
all stocks are available for shorting, but most are.
The only problem is if you want to do a number of
trades each day, as your margin is not replenished
immediately as it is if you're doing cash trades.
If that's a problem, have you considered Nikkei Futures?
I haven't traded stocks for a long while so I'm not
aware of which brokers offer the lowest commissions.
But checking kakaku.com I see that Century charges
472 yen up to 5 mil. That's only .009%.

Just found a site that compares more brokers than
kakaku.com. http://www.onlinetrader.jp/compare1.php
 
Quote from liar:

i wanna put up a system to trade the US market from japan, direct market, low commission, 10:1, any ideas?
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Liar

PM me, I think I can help you.

Cheers
 
anyone still trading the NYSE out of japan? i wanna find a firm that offers 1:10 leverage and direct market access and reasonably low commission. thanks
 
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anyone still trading the NYSE out of japan? i wanna find a firm that offers 1:10 leverage and direct market access and reasonably low commission. thanks
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Not a prop firm but what about IB?
 
Quote from hopeful:

I did have a go at Japanese and Australian stocks but found it much harder to find good trades. And the commissions are much higher as well. Also, you can't short Japanese ones AFAIK (at lease I couldn't with the broker I used). I guess you are more of a swing trader then? Do you also short them? How? What Japanese stock are good for day trading? Which broker do you use? I used marusan for a while but heard that livedoortrade (the company apparently survived its dramas) is excellent for hyperactive traders due to their all-you-can-trade commission structure). I know a local daytrader who is quitting it in this bearish environment (perhaps because he can't short?).

I can get my 6/7/8 hours sleep, no problem if I restrict to trading until US lunch which at the moment is 2am here (1am in the summer). Of course if I could sleep a little earlier that would be nice but not a big deal if you are free to sleep all morning (hint hint: the gaijin sensei is in highest demand in the evenings).

Oh, I sometimes trade the Hang Seng too, but US stocks are by far the best instrument for day trading actively.
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Japanese shorting rules are the same as US before the SHO. You can only short on upticks or at the ask and you need a locate to short...


gaijin sensei?
 
Gaijin usually means Caucasian foreigner, sometime just foreigner, sometimes it just means non-Japanese. It's funny when I hear Japanese talking about all the gaijins everywhere when they are in a foreign country! Japanese can never be foreigners.

Sensei means teacher/professor/doctor/instructor - kind of a generic term.
 
Quote from hopeful:

Gaijin usually means Caucasian foreigner, sometime just foreigner, sometimes it just means non-Japanese. It's funny when I hear Japanese talking about all the gaijins everywhere when they are in a foreign country! Japanese can never be foreigners.

Sensei means teacher/professor/doctor/instructor - kind of a generic term.
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Thx for clearing that out... what do you teach?
 
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