FTSE 100 vs DAX Futures

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Spark, Oct 7, 2002.

  1. Spark

    Spark

    Which one is more liquid and volatile? Any seasoned trader here? Thanks
     
  2. Dax is more volatile and liquid ,they tend to track each other

    Dax vol today was 94000 FTSE was 54000
     
  3. Spark

    Spark

    thanks for the info
     
  4. 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.

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  5. sorry, my mistake regarding the number of contracts traded daily. figure's are lower than that.