What is S & P 500 Pip Size? - What's Margin Requirement for 1 Lot of S and P 500 Stock Index? - S & P 500 Index Trade Contract Specifications

Standard & Poor's 500 Index is a Index that keeps track of the capitalization of the 5 hundred stocks that represent major industries in American economy. The listing of 500 companies is made up of stocks shown in NYSE & NASDAQ.

Contracts and Specs - S & P 500 Index

Margin Requirement Per 1 Lot for S & P 500 Index is - $ 12

Value per Pips for S & P 500 Index is - $ 0.1

S&P 500 just like the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index is more volatile than most of the other Top Index, The S&P 500 index will over the long-term trend upward but it will have more price pullbacks & more consolidations than other Indices. Traders may prefer to trade other stock indices other than this one if they are more used to trading the more stellar and robust trends that are found in the other top indices.

One of the reason this stock index has more oscillations than other indexes is because it has more component stocks than other indexes. This Index also has got a weighting factor in its calculation which also contributes to making the index more volatile.

The S & P 500 Chart

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