The CFD on the Dow Jones (US30) ended the Tuesday, 6 October 2026 UTC session at 51,531.9 points, up 0.44% on the session. Over one year the price is up 10.52%, between a low of 44,820.7 on 30 March 2026 and a high of 54,748.6 on 5 August 2026.
Last session: 6 October 2026, bid price. This page shows a dated close and statistics computed over one year of sessions, not a real-time quote.
To tie these numbers to your own trading: the lesson on the ATR, where to place a stop loss and how to calculate a position size.
Source: Dukascopy
Daily close (line), range between each session's high and low (band), high and low of the year (dots), last close (dashed). CFD bid prices in index points, from 6 October 2025 to 6 October 2026.
Out of the 261 sessions of the year, 53.3% closed above their open.
A session's range is the distance between its high and its low. Over the last 20 sessions, the Dow Jones covered on average 570.9 points, or 1.10% of its opening price; 578.8 points (1.11%) over 90 sessions and 607.2 points (1.23%) over one year. It is the same idea as the ATR, computed here on the daily candle without smoothing opening gaps.
What it changes for a stop, as a worked example and not a recommendation: a stop placed at half the average range of the last 90 sessions is worth 289.4 points, or 0.56% of the price. The value of one point depends on your broker's contract; whatever it is, to risk only 1% of the account with that stop, the position cannot exceed 180% of the account in exposure.
The full reasoning, with the percentage of capital and the reward-to-risk ratio, is in calculating position size and where to place your stop loss.
Source: Dukascopy
The three most active hours are highlighted, the three quietest greyed out. Tallest bar: 0.479%.
Average range of each UTC hour, as a percentage of the hour's opening price, over 1,512 hourly candles from 7 July 2026 to 7 October 2026. The three most active hours are 13:00, 14:00 and 15:00 UTC, that is 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00 in London and 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 in New York. The three quietest: 3:00, 4:00 and 23:00 UTC, that is 4:00, 5:00 and 0:00 in London and 23:00, 0:00 and 19:00 in New York.
No candle exists at 21:00 UTC: that is the feed's daily break, not a quiet hour.
Reading by session: Asia (0:00 to 7:00 UTC) gives an average hourly range of 0.107%, London (7:00 to 12:00 UTC) 0.191%, and New York (12:00 to 21:00 UTC), which overlaps the end of London and the release of US data, 0.269%.
The NYSE core trading session runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time (NYSE, hours): the most active hours found above, that is 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00 in London and 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 in New York, are to be read against that opening, while the CFD is quoted almost all day in UTC.
| Day | Average range | Up sessions | Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 1.16% | 62.3% | 53 |
| Tuesday | 1.27% | 54.7% | 53 |
| Wednesday | 1.22% | 53.8% | 52 |
| Thursday | 1.30% | 48.1% | 52 |
| Friday | 1.20% | 47.1% | 51 |
Over the 261 sessions of the year, average range and share of up sessions, day by day. Thursday was the widest day, Monday the one that most often closed higher. This is an observation on one year of data, not a rule: next year can reverse the order.
Change from the open of the first day to the close of the last day of each month. Best month: April 2026 (+7.25%). Worst month: March 2026 (-4.09%).
Several forces recur in the reference documents, none of them sufficient on its own. Nothing here is a forecast or advice.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted index that measures the performance of 30 US blue-chip companies; it is maintained by a committee of S&P Dow Jones Indices, and its divisor is adjusted to smooth out the effects of stock splits and other corporate actions, according to the description given in a prospectus supplement filed with the SEC in 2023. Born with 12 stocks, it now has 30, spread across several industries (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).
Being price-weighted, the Dow does not weigh its stocks by size: a share quoted at several hundred dollars weighs more than one quoted at a few tens of dollars, whatever the company's capitalization, and one Dow point is not the same percentage as one S&P 500 point.
Interest rates matter for equity valuations: the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which determines the stance of US monetary policy, holds eight regularly scheduled meetings a year, on a calendar the Federal Reserve publishes in advance.
Company results set the rhythm of the year: US issuers file with the SEC a quarterly report, Form 10-Q, with unaudited financial statements, for each of the first three quarters of their fiscal year, then an annual report, Form 10-K (Investor.gov, SEC).
The cash session, finally: the NYSE core trading session runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time (NYSE), and Nasdaq opens and closes at the same hours (Nasdaq); the CFD, for its part, is quoted almost all day in UTC, which explains part of the gap between its close and the index's.
Tradoshi's backtesting module, in beta, replays a market candle by candle without showing what comes next, spread, slippage and commissions included, and it is included from the Pro plan. It is the most direct way to check whether a stop rule based on range holds over the past year. To understand the method first: what is backtesting and backtesting stocks, forex and futures.
The journal does the other half of the work: it measures your own trades on US30, their real R against the stop you placed and the hours when you win or lose, on your executed orders rather than on averages. Every statistic is defined in the glossary.
At 51,531.9 points at the end of the 6 October 2026 UTC session, Dukascopy CFD bid price, up 0.44% versus the previous close. This is not the official index close published by the exchange, and this page does not show a real-time quote: it shows the CFD's last dated close and statistics computed over one year.
On average 578.8 points between a session's high and low over the last 90 sessions, or 1.11% of the opening price; 607.2 points (1.23%) over one year.
On the hourly candles from 7 July 2026 to 7 October 2026, the widest UTC hours were 13:00, 14:00 and 15:00, that is 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00 in London and 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 in New York. The quietest: 3:00, 4:00 and 23:00 UTC.
From Dukascopy historical candles, bid price, UTC sessions Monday to Friday. The calculation dates from 7 October 2026 and the last session taken into account is 6 October 2026; the figures are recomputed at each rebuild of the site.