Measured, not guessed · 2013..2026 of H1 data

When does GER40 (DAX) actually rise?

Every hour below is a real measurement: how often GER40 (DAX) closed higher than it opened in that hour of the week, across 55,535 hourly bars. Not signals — base rates, with the sample size on every figure.

The strongest and weakest hours

Averaged across the trading week, the hour that has leaned up hardest is 17:00 UTC — GER40 (DAX) closed higher 54.1% of 2,689 times there, far enough from a coin flip to be beyond chance. The weakest is 21:00 UTC, closing higher only 44.3% of 670 times.

Hour × weekday, the whole picture

Colour is the up-rate — red leaned down, teal leaned up. The brass dot marks buckets whose lean is statistically beyond chance at |z|≥3. Most cells have no dot. That is the honest shape of the market: mostly noise, with a few stubborn corners.

The three most stubborn corners of the grid:

• Tuesday 17:00 UTC — closed higher 57.1% of 546 times (z=3.3)

Days and seasons

Weekday	Up-rate	Sample
Monday	51.7%	n=10,959
Tuesday	51.1%	n=11,398
Wednesday	51.5%	n=11,320
Thursday	51.2%	n=11,244
Friday	51.6%	n=10,037
Sunday	51.0%	n=577

Monday has been the friendliest day (51.7% of 10,959), Tuesday the least (51.1%). By calendar month, November leads at 52.2% and December trails at 50.2% — month buckets carry roughly a twelfth of the sample each, so hold them more loosely than the hourly figures.

Did any of it survive a real backtest?

Colours are description. A different question is whether a simple rule built on them — enter at the open of a bucket, exit at its close, pay a realistic spread — would have made money, and kept making it on data it was never fitted to. We ran that test across 5,086 rules on the whole board: 307 finished net positive, and only 214 survived the held-out final third of the history.

21 of those survivors run on GER40 (DAX). The strategy board lists every one — including the losers, because a leaderboard that only shows winners is lying by omission.

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Read it without fooling yourself

• The percentage is the headline, not the story. 54.1% from 2,689 samples is information; the same figure from 40 samples is noise. Every number here carries its n.
• The dots matter more than the colours. A vivid cell with no dot is well inside what chance produces.
• Direction is free; getting paid is not. A reliable lean smaller than your spread costs more than it earns.
• These are frequencies, not forecasts. 7 years of "usually" contains every kind of "except when".

The guide walks through all four traps with live numbers.