DAX Forecast: Today, This Week and to 2030

After its remarkable rally in 2025, the DAX added a new local high in January 2026. Price then moved into a sideways correction. In March it briefly left that phase to the downside and set the last local low at 21,863 points. There the market absorbed the selling pressure and turned into a recovery.

Since April a new uptrend structure has been in place. The start of July brought a dynamic move, enough to take out the January high. After a pullback to last year's high, the market broke out to new records, and at the end of August that produced the all-time high at 26,618 points.

At that high the market turned and gave in to profit taking, which later put the July high under pressure. In the fight around the 26,000 mark no support held, and last week the market fell clearly further. After the ECB meeting the January high was briefly undercut, but it was defended into the close of the week. Within the trend structure, the start of the new week brought pressure on last week's low, where a stabilisation could show today. Because the Fed decision only comes after the Xetra close, there is gap risk for Thursday.

Depending on how today develops, the DAX could first stabilise around 25,500 before stronger impulses appear after the Fed meeting. For the start of trading on Thursday a gap in either direction is therefore possible.

The daily chart adds to the hourly picture. After the record the DAX cannot generate follow-up buying and is putting pressure on the nearby supports. In the best case, a stabilisation at the January high could lead to a retest of the 26,000 mark. A break of last week's low, on the other hand, would activate targets at 25,000 points.

Depending on how the current week ends, a sideways phase could still form after a gap close at 25,200 (27 July). With a fresh recovery, a weekly range between 25,040 and 25,850 would be the expectation. A significant break of the 100-day moving average, on the other hand, should aim at the 200-day line at 24,730.

As the daily chart shows, price tested the sideways phase between 22,900 and 24,800 points, in place since June 2025, to the upside in January and February. March 2026 then brought profit taking, so price fell back below the trading range. A deeper correction was avoided after the March low. Out of the consolidation that followed, price overcame the resistance of the previous record high from January at 25,507 points. The breakout met resistance around the 26,600 mark, but after a stabilisation above the January high it could still bring further gains into the end of the year.

The forecast for 2027 shows an uptrend structure that is intact overall. Short-term corrective potential was absorbed around 22,000 points, so medium-term targets between 28,000 and 30,000 points stay active.

During the steady rally of 2023 and 2024, the DAX started into 2025 with even more momentum. After a small double top in March, however, price corrected sharply and gave in to losses down to the 18,500 area. From there the picture turned positive just as quickly, and in a series of firm weekly candles price won back the 23,000 mark. In the second half of the year it set a marker above 24,700 points, then moved sideways around the 20-week line. From the low of that trading range, the 50-week moving average supported a breakout to new records in January 2026. In the tiredness that followed, price left the marked trading range to the downside, but used the counter-move for a breakout. The impulse candles were followed by a new all-time high, and despite the corrective tendency the outlook stays positive above the January high.

Based on the monthly chart, the medium-term forecast for 2028 points to a target of around 28,000 points, provided the long-term uptrend structure stays intact.

A short look back: in the first quarter of 2025 price set a local high above 23,400 points with clear momentum. The wick of the March candle showed tiredness and announced the need to correct, which was worked off with heavy losses into the 18,500 area as early as April. After a firm May, June and July also shone with records. The dojis that followed each other led into a consolidation, which reached another record high at the start of 2026 but came back clearly in March. That tested the sideways phase to the downside, yet the support line held. In August the all-time high at 26,618 points was set, which should lead to follow-up buying.

The long-term forecast on the quarterly chart: the enormous range of the first quarter of 2020 created a historic outside bar. Price left it to the upside in 2021, so the basic upward tendency stays intact. Only closes below the 2022 yearly low (11,862) would put the uptrend at risk.

By the middle of 2030 the DAX could be in a target area between 30,000 and 38,000 points.

The long-term forecast on the yearly chart: in principle, further rising prices can be expected in the DAX. The long lower wick of 2020, with its test of the support line of the trend channel, is a strong sign.

2021 closed at its high. Follow-up momentum in 2022 did not appear at first, and the last low reached 11,829 points. Price has continued the recovery that followed with a series of records into 2026, marking a new all-time high above 26,600 points.

On the logarithmic scale, the support line puts the 2050 forecast in the area of roughly 100,000 points, inside the target area of 80,000 to 120,000 drawn on the chart. Only a fall below the trend line would turn the long-term chart picture neutral, and a drop below the 2022 low (11,862) would make the yearly chart negative.