Trade Ideas  ·  Trade idea · Oct 19, 2026

Trade Syndication · Volatility spikes · Monday, Oct 19

Volatility spikes on Monday, Oct 19: DAX 40 3.8× a normal hour

The hours that broke furthest from normal, measured against each market’s own normal hour.

For every market we cover we find its busiest hour of the day and set it against its normal hour: the median one-hour range of its last 20 sessions. A spike is an hour of three times normal or more. These are the biggest on Monday, Oct 19, with any scheduled news around them and what the market did in the two hours after. Times are New York time.

  • ⚡ DAX 40 0.80% in an hour (3.8× normal)

1. DAX 40: a one-hour burst 3.8× its normal hour

DAX 40: a one-hour burst 3.8× its normal hour
DAX 40 on Monday, Oct 19, 15-minute candles with the burst hour shaded; below, every hour’s range through the day against its normal hour.
One hour0.80% (03:00 to 04:00 ET)
A normal hour0.21% (median of 20 sessions)
This hour3.8× (a normal hour)

Between 03:00 and 04:00 ET on Monday, DAX 40 traded a 0.80% range, 3.8× a normal hour for it (about 0.21%).

There was no scheduled high- or medium-impact news for it at the time.

It moved −0.60% in that hour, then held there over the next two hours.

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Volatility spikes on Monday, Oct 19: DAX 40 3.8× a normal hour · Trade Ideas