What is US500 Pip Value? - What's Margin Requirement for 1 Lot of US500 Stock Indices? - US500 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
Margin Requirement Per 1 Lot for US500 Stock Index is - $ 12
Value per Pip for US500 Stock Indices is - $ 0.1
The US500 just like the Dow Jones Industry Average Stock Index is more volatile than most of the other Top Traded Indices, The US500 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 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.
