this is just the resulted opinion of my own experience trading
dax during 2 years.
about the trend, i am an expertise reading elliott waves and i have detected that the waves of
dax and the waves of future
dax are the same. the difference between the first ones to the second ones is that the future
dax waves are normally complex waves instead of the simple waves of the
dax index but, at the end of the movement both (the
dax and the future
dax) have done the same path.
dax waves are normally, 1 to 5 and abc and future
dax is more usual to see correction waves like abcde or 1 to 5 but with more extended waves than the simple 1 to 5 of the
dax index waves.
about the gaps, the
dax index has big open gaps almost everyday and this is how i have seen these gaps influence the behaviour of
dax futures during the session.