trading overnight futures?

i'm betting on a relief rally overnight to 3845 area before further sell off. i want a good short entry going into next week/this month
 
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way way over sold. calm ur tits /es
 
honestly should've done nq. p/l would be higher by about 25-30%, if it works out

This is an unusually-strong sell-off through the evening ET hours. Only Eurozone can help us now for muting the opening down gap.
 
There's a lot going on overnight these days. And arguably, it can be easier to trade overnight sessions. The price action is a lot cleaner imo, but the liquidity is still there, at least for smaller lot sizes. Curious to get others thoughts.

I added to trade the night sessions too about 3-4 years ago.
Volume is not a problem in the ES for 99% of the traders as about 99% of all traders do only 1 lot trades. :D
Yesterday in that timeframe we had a volume of 728,107 contracts, minimum volume in 1 minute was 150 ctrs, max was 13,569 ctrs and average was 1,618 ctrs. Each hour over 35,000 ctrs.

I saw the volume go up over the years, so even trading 10-50 contracts is no problem (at least not for the market). Since I trade also the session from 1 AM (CST I think) till 8AM, I normally already have reached the daily profit target before the opening in the US. But not always trading the size of the US session; depends on the behavior of the volume and how big the open profit is.
 
Trading overnight is often easier and more trend bound then during the regular sessions but it can be hit and miss too. There are nights when nothing happens!
 
Exactly what I've focused on and it's working nicely. Using ninjamobiletrader.com I'm running my scalping strategies on ES overnight, and 19 out of the past 22 days have woken up with over $1000 in profits, trading on 2 contracts. ES typically less choppy overnight and is easier to trade with various moving average indicators. Even paying a few ticks to algos, there is still enough meat in the moves to capture profit and allow the trailing stop loss to close out gains.

There's a lot going on overnight these days. And arguably, it can be easier to trade overnight sessions. The price action is a lot cleaner imo, but the liquidity is still there, at least for smaller lot sizes. Curious to get others thoughts.
 
The overnight session can be as active as the day regarding price-action moves. The times you look for moves is basically 8 PM, 9 PM, 10 PM, and 1-2 AM, all times Eastern US. And then the dreaded 8 AM to Wall Street market open. Sometimes that really kicks ass, or kicks your ass. Like today! hehe
 
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