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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.
Dow Futures trade with a multiplier that inflates the value of the contract to add leverage to the trade. The multiplier for the Dow Jones is 5, essentially meaning that Dow Futures are working on 5-1 leverage. If the Dow Futures are trading at 10,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $50,000.
Forward prices of equity indices are calculated by computing the cost of carry of holding a long position in the constituent parts of the index. This will typically be the risk-free interest rate, since the cost of investing in the equity market is the loss of interest minus the estimated dividend yield on the index, since an equity investor receives the sum of the dividends on the component ...
Yahoo Finance 8 hours ago Nvidia stock sinks over 8%, market cap dips below $3T as earnings are no match for sky-high expectations. Nvidia stock sank 8.5% Thursday as investor enthusiasm over Blackwell AI sales was dampened by Nvidia's lower-than-expected guidance for first quarter gross margins.
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The stock climbed roughly 6% to end the trading day. Shares of Silvergate Capital Corporation ( SI ), which soared as much as than 90% on elevated trading volume, closing the day up 52%. Alexandra ...
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]