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is index futures (e.g NQ, ES, TF etc) more difficult during the cash session? I find it particularly difficult to navigate around all the chop. premarket and even in after hrs trading is a breeze! Is it just me, or anyone else has had the same experience?
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
There is no chop. You are just trading too small of a time frame, ie scalping, making it near impossible on yourself to be consistently profitable. This has been discussed before in great length on many threads.
It depends what you're trying to do, and how (like so many similar questions), I think.
I've been watching NQ fairly closely, about four days a week, both in and out of Nasdaq RTH, for the last couple of months, and to me it seems the opposite: mostly inside Nasdaq RTH trading hours will be the times that I'll be trading it, myself.
There are days with less clear/substantial direction than other days, of course - as is true of any market. But "chop" is really very subjective, and timeframe-dependent.
What size of time/tick/volume bars are you looking at?
I have only 2-3 months exerience of watching NQ (particularly) and ES (less so), but my initial impressions are very different from yours ...
