Dax is more volatile and liquid ,they tend to track each other Dax vol today was 94000 FTSE was 54000
i'm not a seasoned trader of these products, but the stats show that dax is more liquid than the ftse, about 150k contracts/day to ftse's 100k (roughly speaking). dax is probably slightly more volatile and has the higher point value 25EUR to 10BP for the ftse. www.liffe.co.uk www.eurexchange.com