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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.
In the derivatives market, the CME Group through its subsidiaries the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), issues Futures Contracts; the E-mini Dow ($5) Futures (YM), which track the average and trade on their exchange floors respectively.
The first four tables show only the largest one-day changes between a given day's close and the close of the previous trading day, [1] [2] not the largest changes during the trading day (i.e. intraday changes).
On Tuesday, gold futures pulled back after jumping to an all-time high past $2,960 over the past 24 hours in reaction to President Donald Trump's tariff plan against steel and aluminum imports.
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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).
In finance, a stock market index future is a cash-settled futures contract on the value of a particular stock market index.The turnover for the global market in exchange-traded equity index futures is notionally valued, for 2008, by the Bank for International Settlements at US$130 trillion.
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