Is anyone trading the Nikkei 225 Mini?

Learner, thanks for the chart. I've been watching it, the last 2 nights. You're right, the ATR is not that great, I guess that's why a lot of participants do size.

It's definitely tradable with my style though

Schaefer

 

Yep, it was almost seamless last night. Here's the chart from last night.

Schaefer

 

Don't forget TOPX at 5000y per tick. Faster movement than Nikkei-based indices but about the liquidity of SGXNK.

 

Care to elaborate? I've been watching it for 3 nights already, and I didn't see any problems.

Schaefer

Edit: Then again, I don't have another data feed to compare with

 

Just wanted to post this link. It is pertinent to the availability of Asian exchange offerings.
According to the very last line, IB may lose their monopoly by year end.

http://www.openecry.com/special/announcement.cfm

Osorico

 

Excellent. And it works with Sierra Chart as well.

At the very least it will provide competitive pressure for IB to stay as good as they can.

 

>Schaefer

I didn't mention the current Japan data problem yesterday.

I can compare IB's Japan data with Reuters, eSignal and
all the Japanese brokers. I can say that any time difference
between IB's data and that of the others cannot be
seen with the human eye when all is working as usual.

But as with any broker of data provider there are outages
from time to time. In IB's case@maybe once every 2 months,
and it is always fixed within@minutes. However, the current
data delay has been going on for one week . This has never
happened before and there must be very peculiar reasons
for it taking so long to fix. Maybe it's IB's data provider in
Tokyo (or maybe a shark bit the cable!), who knows.
Anyway, as it's not the normal outage/delay situation is why
I didn't mention it.

 

But they say they will offer trading on SIMEX. The Nikkei225
traded there is the full sized, not the Mini.

 

Kiwi,

Do you know why IB (or the SGX) doesn't offer live data on the underlying cash indices ($STW and $SGXNK/Nikkei)? I asked one of the IB reps here on ET, he thought it might be an issue of the SGX simply not offering the data. I like to monitor the cash indices in real time, but can't do this with the $STW or $SGXNK (though I could with the latter if I subscribed to the OSE data).

I'd also like to have the ability to load up a historical chart of the STW index, but IB/SGX doesn't offer the data, and the web charting services don't carry the STW.

 

Its not full sized ... its part sized. Until the mini came out we regarded the SGX option as the "mini" (see my earlier post).

Re the indexes. A very reliable source tells me that IB offers what the Asian exchanges provide for them (they don't construct any composites) so WYS is What IB got.