Trading the Globex Futures Market
You don’t need the opening bell.
Most trading education assumes you are free at 9:30 in the morning. Most people are not. I built over 90% of my trading profits in the Globex session, after the day job was done, and this site teaches you to do the same: trade the night market well, around the life you already have.
of my trading profits have come from the Globex session, not the day session.
is when my trading day starts. The futures market reopens while most of the country is eating dinner.
trades in a session, planned at marked levels. The night rewards patience, not activity.
The myth that keeps working people out of the market
The big names teach that you must trade the regular session to succeed. I have never found that to be true, and neither have the traders I work with.
Why traders with jobs fail
It is rarely the strategy. It is reps. If you can only trade on vacation days, you never get enough trades in to get better, and every session feels like your one chance. That pressure produces exactly the mistakes a job-free trader can afford to make a hundred times.
Why the night session fixes it
The Globex session runs from 6 pm to 9:30 am Eastern, every weeknight. It has an open, an initial balance, Asian and European participation, levels that matter, and setups that repeat. It is a complete market, and it is open when you are.
What this site is
One trader’s working method for the night session, taught plainly: lessons, live sessions, a journal of every night I trade, and a room of people who trade the same hours. No signals, no promises, no system to buy.
Four places to go
Everything on this site sits in one of these four places.
Lessons
The Night Shift Course: how the Globex session works, the levels that matter after dark, the setups that survive the night, risk, and the schedule that fits around a job.
Streams
Live Globex sessions, recorded. The plan before the open, the levels, the trades and the misses, with the chart on screen.
Journal
Every night I trade, written up afterwards. The chart, the trades, what went right and what I left on the table. Good nights and bad ones.
Community
A small group of traders around the world who trade the same hours, meet on Discord every session, and hold each other to the plan.
The Night Shift Course
Six lessons, in order. Read them together and you will understand the shape of the night session in about an hour.
The first lessons are being written.
From the desk
The newest journal entry and the latest stream.
Latest journal entry
The first session write-up is on its way.
Latest stream
The first stream replay lands here the night it happens.
Trade the session your life actually allows.
The night session is a complete market. Learn how it moves, watch me trade it live, read the write-up the next morning, and if you want people who trade the same hours, there is a room for that.
Disclosure. Midnight Futures is an educational site written by Scott West, a private trader. Nothing here is financial advice, and trading futures carries a substantial risk of loss. Some links to the tools and prop firms I use are affiliate links: if you buy through them I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Full disclosure · Risk disclaimer