What is SPX500 Pips Value? - What is Margin Requirement Per 1 Lot of SPX500 Stock Indices? - SPX500 Index Contract Specifications
The Standard and Poor's 500 Index is a Stock Indices that keeps track of the capitalization of 500 stocks that represent major industries in US economy. The list of 500 companies is made up of stocks displayed in NYSE and NASDAQ.
Contracts & Specifications - SPX500 Stock Index
Margin Requirement Per 1 Lot for SPX500 Stock Indices is - $ 12
Value per Pip for SPX500 Indices is - $ 0.1
The SPX500 just like the Dow Jones Industry Average Index is more volatile than most of the other Top Traded Stock Indices, The SPX500 index will over long term trend upwards but it will have more pull backs & more consolidations than other Stock Indices. Traders may prefer to trade other stock indexes other than this one if they are more used to trading more stellar trends found in other top stock indices.
One of the reason this index has more oscillations than other stock indexes is because it has more constituent stocks than other indexes. This Stock Index also has a weighting component in its calculation which contributes to making the index more volatile.
