How to make an index moving?

[mldn1]

From 14 000 to 14 001 ?

Watch the depth, buy all the offers @ 14000
+1 contract to make it prints 14001.

View attachment 300908

Here you see the spread (Best Bid / Offer)
50,700 contracts @ 176.50
261,900 contracts @ 177.00

If you want the price to the next level,
Consume all the contracts at one price,
Then grab at least one from the next level.

There is a difference between the DAX ETF and future. The future market should be tracking the ETF even if there is some positive feedbacks going on. The ETF is a basket of stocks.

Thank you, I understand now. Do you know where i can find the data for the depth, as on your screenshot but for the dax?

 

[Sekiyo]

Thank you, I understand now. Do you know where i can find the data for the depth, as on your screenshot but for the dax?

You're talking about FDAX, right ?
Should be available on any platform,
But if you have none then here is the data.
https://www.eurex.com/ex-en/markets/idx/dax/DAX-Futures-139902

The best bid / ask spread is listed for each contract (maturity).

If you really want to see the depth of the market,
Further below / above the best bid and ask,
Then you usually have to pay for the data.

 

[Sekiyo]

OP meant buying futures to move index.Not buying futures to move futures prices.
So this is a question if futures follows index, or index follows futures.

If this is the question then ...
In theory :

Stocks -> ETF -> Future
Because the ETF is made of stocks.
Because the future replicates the ETF.

But there is back and forth feedback btw the 3.

 

[murray t turtle]

good Q.

The best person to answer this question is Nick Leeson.
He worked for Barings Bank.
Nick was a very powerful and big trader.
He was trying to move Nikkei futures but was unable to move them.

But he managed to move a very powerful and big bank like Barings Bank.
He managed to bankrupt it.

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Nick ''double down'' Leeson did provide a good lesson on double down payday=6 .5years in the pig pen. But he did get out of prison early+ his trading jacket eventually sold for 21,,000 pounds.
He also made it into Singapore's National Newspaper e-book\ ''Guilty as Charged''