Quoted in index points; a move from 39,000 to 39,001 is one point. Brokers may quote one decimal place.
Commonly $1 per point per standard contract on CFDs, but $0.10 to $25 variants exist across brokers — the contract specification decides.
CFD trading typically runs near-24h on weekdays (roughly 22:00 UTC Sunday to 21:00 UTC Friday with a daily break), but the underlying US market is open 13:30–20:00 UTC — behavior differs sharply inside vs. outside those hours.
US cash hours (13:30–20:00 UTC) carry the real volume; the US open (13:30–14:30 UTC) is the most volatile stretch of the day.
US30 tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average — thirty US blue-chip stocks — via CFD. Its quirk among indices is price-weighting: the highest-priced shares move it most, regardless of company size. It is the narrowest of the big US indices and often the slowest, though 'slow' is relative; hundreds of points in a session is normal.
The defining practical feature of any index CFD is the difference between cash hours and the extended session. Outside US cash hours the price still moves, but on thin liquidity where spreads widen and small news travels far.
How US30 behaves
- The US open regularly produces the day's largest swings within the first hour.
- Gaps over weekends and overnight are structural — index CFDs inherit every after-hours earnings report and headline.
- Fed decision afternoons (18:00 UTC, eight times a year) are its most violent scheduled minutes.
Risk notes for US30
- A stop placed inside cash-hours noise but held overnight faces gap risk no stop order can fully protect against — position size is the only true gap defense.
- Point-value conventions vary wildly across brokers; a tenfold sizing error from an assumed contract is a classic account-destroyer.
- Extended-hours moves frequently retrace at the open; strategies must decide which session they actually trade.
Whatever the instrument, the sizing method is the same: place the stop where the trade idea is invalid, then size the position so that stop costs a fixed fraction of the account. Our position size calculator does that math, and the stop-loss and risk–reward guide explains why the order of operations matters.
US30 — frequently asked questions
What are US30 trading hours?
The CFD typically trades nearly around the clock on weekdays, but the underlying market's cash session — 13:30 to 20:00 UTC — is where volume and reliable behavior live. Outside it, spreads widen and liquidity thins. Broker hours and daily breaks vary.
How much is a US30 point worth?
Commonly $1 per point per contract on retail CFDs, but broker conventions range from $0.10 mini contracts to much larger sizes. Check the specification before sizing — never assume it matches another broker's.
Why does US30 gap so much?
The index reflects thirty companies that report earnings and react to news around the clock while the cash market is closed. All of that accumulated repricing appears at once when liquidity returns — as a gap. Sizing positions to survive gaps matters more than stop placement here.
Reference information, not financial advice. Contract sizes, pip values, hours, and spreads vary by broker — your broker's specification is authoritative, and RezSync Algo always reads these values live from the broker rather than assuming them. Trading involves substantial risk of loss; forward-test on a demo account before any live decision.
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