Trading the Nikkei 225

[saxon]

With IB as a broker and eSignal as a data feed, how can I trade the N225?

As far as I know, IB only offers it on the Osaka stock exchange, and eSignal only offers RT data for N225 on SIMEX.

Anyone solved this?

sax

 

[saxon]

Just saw this post on the eSignal BB, posted 11-13-03. Hope the year-end estimate for the addition of the Osaka exchange holds.

We are just about to complete development on 8 additional Asian markets and hope to release by year's end. We haven't completed the contracts with these exchanges as yet, but don't expect to have a problem there. One of the exchanges we're releasing is the Tokyo Stock Exchange, but unfortunately not the Topix Futures. This is scheduled for Spring/Summer time frame. We will carry the Topix Indices as well. Below is the list of 8 exchanges that we're hoping to release by end of year along with the Nikkei indices.

Thailand Stock exchange
Tokyo Stock Exchange & TOPIX Indices
Osaka Stock Exchange
Nagoya Stock Exchange (Regional Japan Market)
Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange
Korea Stock Exchange & KOSPI Indices
KOSDAQ
Bombay Stock Exchange & Sensex Indices
Nikkei Indices

 

[traderob]

You could use ensign with the Ib feed.
If you get it working let me know; the feeds are good for most futures but for some reason the nikkei doesn't seem to work well on ensign even though it is very accurate on IB.