trading overnight futures?

[irniger]

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

I find that the times you mentioned are easier to trade than the market openings. But a couple of hours after opening, things are getting smoother and easier to trade. The last 30 minutes are also quite profitable to trade most of the days. I also trade the UK/FTSE and DAX/German 30 opening and closing. These are usually less volatile than the US indices. I live in Switzerland - 6 hrs ahead of EST.

 

[csharpe]

Feels a lot harder to fill a resting order overnight than in the day session, but otherwise the overnight's can get pretty interesting before open

 

[maxinger]

trading overnight futures

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trading US index futures during Asian or European session /
trading Asian index futures during US or European session /
trading European index futures during Asian or US session.

 

[Bad_Badness]

How did this work out last night?

 

[Overnight]

How did this work out last night?

Nobody will answer that question if it goes badly for them. Only if it goes good. This is a guarantee.

 

[easymon1]

How did this work out last night?

Badman, Which post you referring to? Asia has a beautiful downdraft from 8 - 9 PM EST Thursday. Freakin Delightful. Better than the cleaners, it was 'in by 8, out by 9, beat the cleaners by 7 hours. not too shabby.
Who'se Hungry?

 

[FXtrader8911]

These are usually less volatile than the US indices

I developed an algo that predicts the EU Indices prices based on the DOW Volatility in real-time. The correlation is a multiple of up to 1.5 of the DOW's volatility, so what you say does not match what I see.

 

[Fadel221]

J'ai développé un algorithme qui prédit les prix des indices européens sur la base de la volatilité DOW en temps réel. La corrélation est un multiple allant jusqu'à 1,5 de la volatilité du DOW, donc ce que vous dites ne correspond pas à ce que je vois.

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J'en ai besoin

 

[Merkd1904]

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.

As someone who's been trading Globex pretty consistently the past 6 months my first impulse is to tell you that it's slower, easier to handle, and that you can be consistent. But, my journaling shows otherwise.

The overnight sessions less Germany and London open are really just noise and in my opinion it's a lot of programs out looking for liquidity. Yes, there are sessions that are fruitful, but the more i trade the more it gets reinforced that the less time spent in the market, the better.

If you trade anything during Globex have it be the 18:00 open and the London open at 3 A.M EST. Everything else is just noise and incredibly frustrating.

 

[easymon1]

There's a lot going on overnight these days.

https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/charts-for-no-reason.344272/page-23#post-5590170