The CFD on the S&P 500 (US500) ended the Tuesday, 6 October 2026 UTC session at 7,827.363 points, up 0.61% on the session. Over one year the price is up 16.29%, between a low of 6,310.351 on 31 March 2026 and a high of 7,844.518 on 6 October 2026.
Last session: 6 October 2026, bid price, source Dukascopy. 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.
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 S&P 500 covered on average 74.832 points, or 0.98% of its opening price; 83.286 points (1.10%) over 90 sessions and 85.999 points (1.22%) 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 41.643 points, or 0.55% 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 182% 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.
The three most active hours are highlighted, the three quietest greyed out. Tallest bar: 0.371%.
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 20:00 UTC, that is 4:00, 5:00 and 21:00 in London and 23:00, 0:00 and 16:00 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 0.126%, London (7:00 to 12:00 UTC) 0.160%, and New York (12:00 to 21:00 UTC), which overlaps the end of London and the release of US data, 0.252%.
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% | 67.9% | 53 |
| Tuesday | 1.20% | 45.3% | 53 |
| Wednesday | 1.19% | 50.0% | 52 |
| Thursday | 1.29% | 51.9% | 52 |
| Friday | 1.24% | 51.0% | 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 (+10.37%). Worst month: March 2026 (-3.82%).
Several forces recur in the reference documents, none of them sufficient on its own. Nothing here is a forecast or advice.
The S&P 500 brings together, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices description carried by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 500 leading companies in leading industries of the US economy, listed on the NYSE or Nasdaq, and it covers about 75% of US equities.
It is weighted by market capitalization: the market value of the 500 stocks, divided by a divisor that keeps the index comparable to its base period, and since 2005 that capitalization has been float-adjusted, that is, limited to the shares that actually trade on the market, according to the notice published in the Federal Register on 2 September 2004. The largest companies therefore weigh the most in each move of the index.
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 US500, 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 7,827.363 points at the end of the 6 October 2026 UTC session, Dukascopy CFD bid price, up 0.61% 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 83.286 points between a session's high and low over the last 90 sessions, or 1.10% of the opening price; 85.999 points (1.22%) 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 20:00 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.