You live there but apparently never worked in financial services there nor do you seem to open your eyes to reality. What about pachinko parlors? Strictly prohibited to pay out cash to winning gamblers. So what do they do? Exit the parlor, go to the small booth right next door, and exchange their pachinko balls for cash at a markdown, same Yakuza behind this operation than the pachinko shop. Used panties in vending machines. Police stations right next door the red light districts. Give me a break. I love Japan. But Japanese culture is totally fuxxed up on the logic scale. And hey, why should they remove the war criminals from yasukuni shrine,right?makes for a nice annual pissing contest with Korea and China. Welcome to the land of the rising sun.
Yeah, you must be speaking from experience pal. And if you were honest you should also state that you are not even considered a human being as a male unemployed in Japan. The shame culture dictates those individuals to only go out after dark. Exaggerated but you do get the point. You get nothing as unemployed. You cannot rent a place, cannot open a bank account, no welfare after 3 months, nothing. Not much different from other countries except that the suicide rate is a multiple that of most any other country in the world. Cheers to honesty and acceptance.
Don't we love our gaijins who are defending Japanese culture without any grounding in reality. Everything is relative, everything has pros and cons. But some stubbornly refuse to admit that fact. Back to trading, all my points stand, none was refuted and I don't think they can be refuted because they are all truthful and factual. Day trading Japanese stocks is a suckers game and has a much lower edge and chance of success than trading a truly free market without the multiple barriers of entry.
I rent my apartment and have a number of bank accounts. You provide more misinformation than the Devil!! So, still working for a living, are you? Too bad. I retired at 38! But as you know everything, maybe someday you'll have what it takes to make it, or maybe not.
No, no, no. You obviously don't understand how commission works. That would be 16% RT. That doesn't exist on this planet. Commission is not based on the price of a stock. It's based on the total value of the trade. And the commission on a trade up to 3 million yen is just ￥80. Over 3 million it's ￥０ for margin accounts.
and you are unemployed? How did you get to convince the landlord to rent out to an unemployed? The contract is in your name? Or are you living off your Japanese spouse? Who is your guarantor? I believe you make up a horse-load of shite. Lol, you retired at 38 but have to rent? Haha. You are a full of total contradictions. Not that someone who rents necessarily does not have funding, I rent in HK, but then if there is one place on earth where someone should lock into a long-term fixed rate mortgage or pay outright then it is Japan with its super low rates. Listen, I am not into any pissing contests, especially not with you. Your information re Japanese equity markets are completely wrong. So are your idealistic views of Japanese culture. You could not refute a single of my points on Japanese markets nor society. Let's keep it at that. I disagree with your rosy picture of Japan and you disagree with my assessment.
Independent trader. Try it, you'll love it!! Showed him one of my bank accounts. Yep. Nope. A company that guarantees tenants. Envious?? Don't have to. Just want to. In your mind only Never mentioned it. Refuted almost all of them correctly. Never painted it. Yes, to avoid readers being mislead. My pleasure, and for the benefit of the thread's readers!
Jealous? Of what precisely? Care to elaborate? You would not know a thing about me so why would you conclude I would be jealous? You continue to refuse to counter argue any of the issues, brought up, trading and culture related. Talk whatever you want about me, though so far you have been utterly incorrect. But please stop misleading others who expressed a sincere interest in trading Japanese markets. You are an independent "retired" trader who rents and uses a bucket shop broker company that caters to the Watanabe-sans, it cannot get more comical. You are the biggest con artist on this site. Highly entertaining.
Maybe my question was not clear enough. I was not asking about margin accounts, or the interest rate for borrowing money from the broker. I was asking whether a resident in Japan is allowed to short-sell stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. And if so, what the cost is of borrowing those stock? I get the impression from your post about kabu.com that they allow you to do short-selling?