This is the course: how I trade the overnight Globex session, taught in order, for people who work during the day and want to trade futures seriously anyway. Twelve lessons, about two hours in total, no system to buy at the end. The newest lessons are on top; the full course in order is below.
Everything here is one trader’s working method, not a guarantee of anything, and the risk disclaimer applies to every word.
Newest lessons
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Trading Around a Job: The Night Shift Schedule
The schedule that fits serious futures trading into an evening after work: preparation during the halt, one window, a one-minute journal per trade, a hard stop, morning review, and the…
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Risk After Dark
The risk rules that keep a night trader in the game: the platform-enforced daily loss limit, three strikes, structural stops, fixed small size, scaling out, news handling, prop firm rules…
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Trading Globex Gold
Why gold’s natural participants are awake during the Globex session, what moves it after dark, how the setups change compared with ES and NQ, and why the tick math argues…
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Setups That Survive the Night
The three setups that have survived in my overnight journal: the first touch of a fresh level, the spike wick at a planned level, and acceptance beyond the range on…
The Night Shift Course, in order
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The Night Shift Is a Real Market
Why the overnight Globex session is a complete market, why traders with jobs fail for lack of reps, and what thinner volume really means.
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Globex vs RTH: A Compare and Contrast Study
A side-by-side comparison of the overnight Globex session and regular trading hours: hours, volume, participants, speed, news, rules and the trader.
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The Anatomy of a Globex Night
The overnight session hour by hour, in Eastern time: the halt, the reopen, the Globex initial balance, Tokyo, Hong Kong, the quiet hours, Europe…
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Futures Volume at Night
How much volume trades in the futures market overnight, where it comes from, how to see it with a session profile and order flow,…
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Tokyo Thunder: The First Real Wave of the Night
Why the hour after the Tokyo open has been my most productive hour of the trading day, what happens in the window, and how…
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The London Open
The European open brings the heaviest overnight volume of the night. What happens at 2 and 3 am Eastern, how it differs from Tokyo,…
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Overnight Areas to Avoid
The parts of the overnight session I have learned not to trade: the quiet hours, the first reopen candles, news in a thin book,…
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The Levels That Matter After Dark
The handful of levels I mark before every overnight session, where each one comes from, how I grade them A, B or C during…
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Setups That Survive the Night
The three setups that have survived in my overnight journal: the first touch of a fresh level, the spike wick at a planned level,…
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Trading Globex Gold
Why gold’s natural participants are awake during the Globex session, what moves it after dark, how the setups change compared with ES and NQ,…
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Risk After Dark
The risk rules that keep a night trader in the game: the platform-enforced daily loss limit, three strikes, structural stops, fixed small size, scaling…
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Trading Around a Job: The Night Shift Schedule
The schedule that fits serious futures trading into an evening after work: preparation during the halt, one window, a one-minute journal per trade, a…
How to use it
- Read the first three lessons before you trade a single overnight session. They are the map.
- Watch a stream after Lesson 9 and try to name the levels and the setup before I do.
- Read a week of the journal after Lesson 11. The rules only mean something when you see them cost me a trade.
- If you want people who keep the same schedule, the community is where they are.
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