Just wondering if the Nikkei 225 March contract (Singapore open outcry) will be trading today: Tues 31/1/05? Can't seem to locate a good website. Got a feeling they have knocked off early for the month, some holidays perhaps? Thanks for your help.
Just a random thought, but wouldn't it be great if the exchanges had e-mail service. They could send out e-mail when there is a holiday.
Monday and Tuesday are holidays here in Singapore .... Chinese Lunar New Year. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/holidayAndExpirationCalendar.php?ib_entity=llc
And they're off...Nikki up and running again today. Up 1% in early trading. wow That market is going crazy, up 50% since May.
The futures market is open today, got a reply from my broker. Must say it's hard to find good resources on the internet sometimes, I'm sure they are there just hard to track down.
SGX Nikkei is trading. Here's a free source of cash index and news: http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/CF/FR/MKJ/ 1% is under its recent stat vol. Nik was up nearly 3% on Friday.
Quotes: http://esite.sgx.com/live/dt/DTFuture.asp?NKFE Guess they opened NK futures/options because Osaka was open.
Nikkei 225 +145.14 +0.88% 16,696.37 1/31 11:00am japan is like the naz in 1999. how hard is it for people in the us to trade it with ib?
No problems: although pretty tough to predict, there's decent liquidity (similar to ym) and if u follow size u'll be more often right than wrong, and that's more the case for the opening range. Watch out for 100+ lots size trades. Ooooops, Im not in the US.