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