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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 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.
The E-mini quickly became the most popular equity index futures contract in the world. The original ("big") S&P contract was subsequently split 2:1, bringing it to 250 times the index. Hedge funds often prefer trading the E-mini over the big S&P since the older ("big") contract still uses the open outcry pit trading method, with its inherent ...
A stock future is a cash-settled futures contract on the value of a particular stock market index. Stock futures are one of the high risk trading instruments in the market. Stock market index futures are also used as indicators to determine market sentiment. [3]
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Amex indices NYSE Arca Major Market Index; CBOE indices CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM) CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) Dow Jones & Company indices Dow Jones Industrial Average; Dow Jones Transportation Average; Dow Jones Utility Average; MarketGrader indices Barron's 400 Index; Nasdaq indices Nasdaq Composite; Nasdaq-100; Nasdaq Financial-100
This is a list of notable futures exchanges. Those stock exchanges that also offer trading in futures contracts besides trading in securities are listed both here and the list of stock exchanges .
Bloomberg report that the combined losses in share price between the Nasdaq 100 and Europe’s Stoxx 600 technology sub-index would be equal to a market capitalisation wipeout of $1.2tn (£960bn ...