The CFD on the Nikkei 225 (JP225) ended the Tuesday, 6 October 2026 UTC session at 70,698.5 points, up 1.02% on the session. Over one year the price is up 46.22%, between a low of 45,775.4 on 10 October 2025 and a high of 73,515.5 on 22 June 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, 57.5% closed above their open.
A session's range is the distance between its high and its low. Over the last 20 sessions, the Nikkei 225 covered on average 1,506.2 points, or 2.29% of its opening price; 1,947.7 points (2.92%) over 90 sessions and 1,527.3 points (2.58%) 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 973.9 points, or 1.46% 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 68% 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: 1.103%.
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 0:00, 1:00 and 14:00 UTC, that is 1:00, 2:00 and 15:00 in London and 20:00, 21:00 and 10:00 in New York. The three quietest: 17:00, 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, that is 18:00, 21:00 and 23:00 in London and 13:00, 16:00 and 18:00 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 0.642%, London (7:00 to 12:00 UTC) 0.431%, and New York (12:00 to 21:00 UTC), which overlaps the end of London and the release of US data, 0.442%.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange trades from 9:00 to 11:30 and then from 12:30 to 15:30, Tokyo time (Japan Exchange Group), that is 0:00 to 6:30 UTC, and New York opens at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time (NYSE): the most active hours found above, 0:00, 1:00 and 14:00 UTC, are to be read against those two openings, while the CFD is quoted well beyond the Tokyo session.
| Day | Average range | Up sessions | Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 2.36% | 64.2% | 53 |
| Tuesday | 2.83% | 54.7% | 53 |
| Wednesday | 2.62% | 57.7% | 52 |
| Thursday | 2.50% | 46.2% | 52 |
| Friday | 2.60% | 64.7% | 51 |
Over the 261 sessions of the year, average range and share of up sessions, day by day. Tuesday 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: October 2025 (+16.55%). Worst month: July 2026 (-11.11%).
Several forces recur in the reference documents, none of them sufficient on its own. Nothing here is a forecast or advice.
The Nikkei 225, or Nikkei Stock Average, has been calculated by Nikkei Inc. since 7 September 1950. According to its official profile, it is a price-weighted index of 225 stocks selected from the common stocks of the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, reviewed twice a year, in April and October; each stock's price goes through a price adjustment factor, and the sum is divided by a divisor.
Being price-weighted, the index gives the most weight to stocks with a high unit price, regardless of company size: the same percentage move therefore shifts the index more when it comes from an expensive share than from a cheap one.
The yen counts twice. The index and the CFD are denominated in yen: for an account held in another currency, the yen's move adds to the index's, and Nikkei Inc. indeed publishes USD-hedged and EUR-hedged versions of the Nikkei 225 (same profile). And for exporters, a Federal Reserve Bank of New York study (Exchange Rates and Profit Margins: The Case of Japanese Exporters, 1999) estimates that a 10 percent rise in the yen leads to a roughly 4 percent decline in the export margins of Japanese makers of industrial machinery, electrical machinery and transportation equipment, relative to their margins on goods sold in Japan.
Interest rates: the Bank of Japan's Policy Board holds eight Monetary Policy Meetings a year, each over two days, at which it decides the guideline for money market operations and releases its assessment of economic activity and prices.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange cash session runs from 9:00 to 11:30 and then from 12:30 to 15:30, Tokyo time (Japan Exchange Group); the CFD, for its part, is quoted well beyond that, through the European and American 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 JP225, 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 70,698.5 points at the end of the 6 October 2026 UTC session, Dukascopy CFD bid price, up 1.02% 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 1,947.7 points between a session's high and low over the last 90 sessions, or 2.92% of the opening price; 1,527.3 points (2.58%) over one year.
On the hourly candles from 7 July 2026 to 7 October 2026, the widest UTC hours were 0:00, 1:00 and 14:00, that is 1:00, 2:00 and 15:00 in London and 20:00, 21:00 and 10:00 in New York. The quietest: 17:00, 20:00 and 22:00 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.