Japanese Stock Market Hours

Japanese Stock Market Hours

By: Frank Vanderlugt

Do you love the thrill of the global stock exchange? Do you own a business with a lot of clients in Japan or do you do a lot of business in Asia? You probably spend—or at least you should then spend—a lot of time studying the Japanese stock market, a.k.a. the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the second largest stock market in the world behind the New York Stock Exchange!

The Japanese stock market lists 2271 Japanese companies and 31 foreign companies and remains one of the centers of commerce in Asia. If you do business with Japan, whether selling your own products or services to Japanese companies and clients, or you purchase products or services from Japanese companies for use in your own business, you need to know the latest information on the Japanese stock market!

A regular Japanese client may not be able to afford an increase in your products or service if the Japanese stock market isn’t doing well. Likewise, your costs in buying products from Japan could increase.

Look at the Japanese stock market daily and you might find that one company is doing really well and can probably give you a discount on products or services that their competitors can’t. Stay informed about the Japanese stock market and you’ll have the upper hand in negotiations.

If you’re going to stay informed about the Japanese stock market, you’ll need to know the Japanese stock market hours. The Japanese stock market hours are 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 to 3:00 p.m.

Remember that those Japanese stock market hours are for Tokyo time! New York is 14 hours behind Japan, so Japanese stock market hours are actually 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. and 2:30 to 5:00 a.m. in New York and the Japanese stock market is a day ahead.

If you’re not located in the Eastern time zone, adjust those Japanese stock market hours accordingly to the differences between your own time zone and New York. In any case, you need to stay up late to stay active about the news on the Japanese stock market! Since you probably can’t stay up that late, check the news first thing in the morning.

Unless you’re fluent in Japanese or you have an excellent broker, you may not want to spend hours trading on the Japanese stock market. It’s very complex to open an account on the Japanese stock exchange. As a foreigner, you can’t open a personal brokerage account in Japan.

Still, it is possible to spend your hours trading on the Japanese stock market. If you have a brokerage account in Hong Kong or Singapore, you will be allowed to trade on the Japanese stock market. Speak to a broker for more information if you’re really interested in making money off of the Japanese stock market.

Staying informed about the Japanese stock market can save you hours of anguish when a Japanese client or supplier tells you that they need to negotiate a different price. Know about the status of competitors on the Japanese stock exchange and stay at the top of your business game!

Frank j Vanderlugt owns and operates http://www.japanese-stockmarket-now.com Japanese Stock Market

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