Trading From a Second Time Zone: What Moving From Seoul to Ingolstadt Changed
⚠️ Personal reflection — not financial advice. This post describes one trader's personal relocation and the time-zone consequences that reshaped a decade of habits. It is not investment advice, a recommendation, or a claim that any market session is superior to another. Trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Please consult a licensed financial advisor before making trading decisions. See full Disclaimer . "The market did not move when I moved. I moved by eight hours, and the market kept running on New York time — which meant everything I had built around the Seoul evening was now happening while I was asleep." I started trading on a Kiwoom Securities account in Seoul in 2016. For the first six years, my trading day was structured around Korean market hours in the morning and US futures in the evening — Seoul-time evening, which mapped onto New York morning without much thought. In 2022 I moved to Ingolstadt, Germany, a...