Trading from Japan

Discussion in 'Prop Firms' started by hopeful, Jan 17, 2008.

  1. >hopeful

    Hope you didn't get caught up in that Nova mess
    that I read about.

    There is no problem shorting Japanese stocks. Not
    all stocks are available for shorting, but most are.
    The only problem is if you want to do a number of
    trades each day, as your margin is not replenished
    immediately as it is if you're doing cash trades.
    If that's a problem, have you considered Nikkei Futures?
    I haven't traded stocks for a long while so I'm not
    aware of which brokers offer the lowest commissions.
    But checking kakaku.com I see that Century charges
    472 yen up to 5 mil. That's only .009%.

    Just found a site that compares more brokers than
    kakaku.com. http://www.onlinetrader.jp/compare1.php
     
    #11     Jan 19, 2008
  2. Why not IB?
     
    #12     Jan 20, 2008
  3. Liar

    PM me, I think I can help you.

    Cheers
     
    #13     Jan 20, 2008
  4. anyone still trading the NYSE out of japan? i wanna find a firm that offers 1:10 leverage and direct market access and reasonably low commission. thanks
     
    #14     Aug 24, 2008

  5. Not a prop firm but what about IB?
     
    #15     Aug 24, 2008
  6. hopeful

    hopeful

    This firm charges $1.50 per 100. Not bad and no day trading restrictions AFAIK.

    http://objectivetrading.com/investment/contact.php
     
    #16     Aug 25, 2008
  7. Japanese shorting rules are the same as US before the SHO. You can only short on upticks or at the ask and you need a locate to short...


    gaijin sensei?
     
    #17     Aug 26, 2008
  8. hopeful

    hopeful

    Gaijin usually means Caucasian foreigner, sometime just foreigner, sometimes it just means non-Japanese. It's funny when I hear Japanese talking about all the gaijins everywhere when they are in a foreign country! Japanese can never be foreigners.

    Sensei means teacher/professor/doctor/instructor - kind of a generic term.
     
    #18     Aug 26, 2008
  9. Thx for clearing that out... what do you teach?
     
    #19     Aug 26, 2008
  10. hopeful

    hopeful

    My mother tongue - Ingrishu.
     
    #20     Aug 26, 2008