Being Filled Between Bid/offer

[Being Filled Between Bid/offer]

i'm not sure...but maybe those are negotiated orders?

[Mini Topix]

MidKnight,

 

what's the volume in mini and big topix contracts like?

 

thanks

[Afraid of Pulling the Trigger?]

very great post. thank you.

[What Does (E) Stand For?]

i moved from spot forex to futures for more than 1 month now.. don't notice any significant difference. i mainly trade eur and jpy futures by the way. the volume of gbp in futures is even lower than eur and jpy.

[Mini Nikkei Futures?]

i want to clear some things up..

 

nk are traded in ose, sgx and cme. Not sure if cme offers the mini contracts. I can check it later.

 

The mini contracts are traded in ose and sgx. (but no liquidity in sgx)

 

for ose mini, trading hours are 900am - 1100am, 1230pm - 1510pm, 1630pm - 1900pm, ose time.

 

nkd (nk dominated in usd) opens at 1700pm ose time

 

then at 1900pm ose time, ose closes and markets in sgx and cme become very thin. This is when the spread becomes very high as i mentioned above.

 

at 2000pm ose time, nk in sgx closes and nk (dominated in yen) trades in cme (not sure if mini is offered by cme)

 

hope it helps.

[Mini Nikkei Futures?]

what do u mean by spread? difference between bid and ask? or calendar spread?

 

most of the time, the spread as in diff btw bid and ask is 1 tick (5 points) in the mini and sgx full contract.

 

only after ose close, the market in sgx and cme is very thin. The spread during US session is normally 3-5 ticks, or even wider.

[Program Trading, Arbitrage, Ect...]

In regards to program trading, I have no clue how the calculations are done but depending on the difference btween the cash and futures, institutional traders will send out basket orders. Early morning reversals here in Japan are usually program orders. This is a common strategy applied by many institutions here. We used to be amazed by the 10:00am reversals as it was most likely controlled by one big institutional trader. What this guy used to do was buy a basket of best performing stocks and sell a basket of worst performing stocks. This caused massive reversals in the futures market.

 

interesting information.. Thanks

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