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S&P Futures trade with a multiplier, sized to correspond to $250 per point per contract. If the S&P Futures are trading at 2,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $500,000. For every 1 point the S&P 500 Index fluctuates, the S&P Futures contract will increase or decrease $250.
The result is that a trader who believed the market would rally could simply acquire Dow Futures and make a huge amount of profit as a result of the leverage factor; if the market were to rise to 14,000, for instance, from the current 10,000, each Dow Futures contract would gain $20,000 in value (4,000 point rise x 5 leverage factor = $20,000). [5]
The index, as well as the Dow and Nasdaq, had pulled back from record levels by the end of Tuesday's regular trading day, and the S&P 500 remains less than 0.5% from its all-time high. Dow futures ...
Bonds rallied alongside stocks, sending the yield on the 10-year Treasury down below 4% on Thursday, for the first time since August. Meanwhile, oil prices moved up about 1.7% to come further off ...
Calm has returned to the market after stocks snapped a record-setting run of wins. Stock market news today: US futures bounce back from worst day in months [Video] Skip to main content
Futures trading is skyrocketing – CME's E-mini contracts averaged 3.5 million contracts a day in 2008, a 37 percent yearly increase in volume, while equity volume increased only 2 percent for the same period of time. [8] However studies reveal that hedging strategies still dominate speculation trade activity in every futures market studied. [9]
A futures exchange or futures market is a central financial exchange where people can trade standardized futures contracts defined by the exchange. [1] Futures contracts are derivatives contracts to buy or sell specific quantities of a commodity or financial instrument at a specified price with delivery set at a specified time in the future.
(Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures were flat-to-slightly lower on Thursday, as investors paused after Wall Street's strong performance in the previous session and focused on corporate earnings ...