The CFD on the FTSE 100 (UK100) ended the Tuesday, 6 October 2026 UTC session at 10,537.3 points, up 0.11% on the session. Over one year the price is up 11.34%, between a low of 9,273.5 on 17 October 2025 and a high of 10,991.3 on 31 July 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, 54.4% closed above their open.
A session's range is the distance between its high and its low. Over the last 20 sessions, the FTSE 100 covered on average 122.2 points, or 1.15% of its opening price; 119.8 points (1.13%) over 90 sessions and 122.5 points (1.19%) 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 59.9 points, or 0.57% 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 177% 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: 0.466%.
Average range of each UTC hour, as a percentage of the hour's opening price, over 1,506 hourly candles from 7 July 2026 to 7 October 2026. The three most active hours are 7:00, 8:00 and 13:00 UTC, that is 8:00, 9:00 and 14:00 in London and 3:00, 4:00 and 9:00 in New York. The three quietest: 20:00, 22:00 and 23:00 UTC, that is 21:00, 23:00 and 0:00 in London and 16:00, 18:00 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 0.163%, London (7:00 to 12:00 UTC) 0.321%, and New York (12:00 to 21:00 UTC), which overlaps the end of London and the release of US data, 0.224%.
On SETS, the London Stock Exchange order book, continuous trading runs from 8:00 to 16:30, London time, between an opening auction and a closing auction (London Stock Exchange, Business Parameters), and New York opens at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time (NYSE): the most active hours found above, that is 8:00, 9:00 and 14:00 in London and 3:00, 4:00 and 9:00 in New York, are to be read against those two openings, while the CFD is quoted well beyond the London session.
| Day | Average range | Up sessions | Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 1.07% | 54.7% | 53 |
| Tuesday | 1.22% | 56.6% | 53 |
| Wednesday | 1.21% | 53.8% | 52 |
| Thursday | 1.28% | 50.0% | 52 |
| Friday | 1.17% | 56.9% | 51 |
Over the 261 sessions of the year, average range and share of up sessions, day by day. Thursday was the widest day, Friday 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: February 2026 (+6.46%). Worst month: March 2026 (-4.89%).
Several forces recur in the reference documents, none of them sufficient on its own. Nothing here is a forecast or advice.
The FTSE 100 brings together the 100 largest UK companies listed on the London Stock Exchange by full market capitalisation, according to the FTSE UK Index Series ground rules published by FTSE Russell, which calculates it; constituents are weighted by their capitalisation adjusted for free float and foreign ownership limits, and the composition is reviewed every quarter, in March, June, September and December (methodology overview).
Being capitalisation-weighted, the index gives the most weight to the largest companies, and it lives mostly outside the United Kingdom: according to a FTSE Russell analysis of 5 March 2024, over four-fifths of the sales of FTSE 100 constituents come from outside the UK, and the index reacts to the value of sterling, a fall of which often gives it a boost since those foreign earnings are then worth more once translated. The same analysis notes the weight of natural resources (energy and basic materials), which exposes it to world economic activity.
Interest rates matter for equity valuations: the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee sets Bank Rate and announces its decisions eight times a year, roughly every six weeks, with a target of 2% inflation over the medium term.
Company results set the rhythm of the year: a UK-listed issuer must make public a half-yearly financial report covering the first six months of its financial year, no later than three months after the end of the period (FCA, Disclosure and Transparency Rules, DTR 4.2).
The cash session, finally: on SETS, the London Stock Exchange order book where FTSE 100 stocks trade, the opening auction call starts at 7:50, continuous trading at 8:00 and the closing auction call at 16:30, London time (London Stock Exchange, Millennium Exchange Business Parameters); the CFD, for its part, is quoted well beyond those hours, 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 UK100, 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 10,537.3 points at the end of the 6 October 2026 UTC session, Dukascopy CFD bid price, up 0.11% 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 119.8 points between a session's high and low over the last 90 sessions, or 1.13% of the opening price; 122.5 points (1.19%) over one year.
On the hourly candles from 7 July 2026 to 7 October 2026, the widest UTC hours were 7:00, 8:00 and 13:00, that is 8:00, 9:00 and 14:00 in London and 3:00, 4:00 and 9:00 in New York. The quietest: 20:00, 22:00 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.