DAX | StrayDog Trading

Information about DAX, video instruction how to find futures quotes in premarket,
useful links and lingo from my Morning notes and charts

DAX Trading hours

DAX Futures Trading hours was changed from Dec 10, 2018. You can read about the changes in this article.

START of the futures session depends on Daylight saving time change.

It starts from 01:15 am OR at 02:15 am CET. Screenshots are from Interactive Brokers platform

On TradingView, IF you are using the FREE version, you will get DELAYED quotes for Futures, and on Investing.com you can see them for free. This is video instruction how to set that chart - we need Futures charts to get info where are pre-market low and high values. This is "budget" variant, and better one is to pay for Eurex real time data and use TradingView or another charting software.

I use Trading View platform for charting, and there are various available DAX CFDs on it.

Here are them, and the one I am using for Zones are either DE30EUR or GRXEUR.

Zones are also given for Futures.

Note that there could be differences between CFD quotes from TradingView and your broker. Also, there is always a difference between CFD quotes and futures. I use CFDs for this zones chart, because most of the people trade them (I did an poll on that on Twitter). Sometimes it is better to use CFDs, because you can close partially if you have small account, and trade less value than with futures. But, when you grow your account, OR you already have a decent size account - it is better to trade futures. Better fills, less slippage, better regulation and lower commissions.