How Do I Calculate S&P 500 Pips Value - S&P 500 Index
Standard & Poor's 500 is a index that tracks the capitalization of the five hundred stocks which represent major industries in the US economy. The listing of 500 companies is made up of stocks listed in the NYSE and NASDAQ.
Index Contracts and Specifications - S&P 500 Index
Margin Required Per 1 Lot for S&P 500 is - $ 12
Value per 1 Pip(Point)s for S&P 500 is - $ 0.1
The S&P 500 just like the Dow Jones Industry Average Index is more volatile than many of the other Top Index, The S&P 500 index will over long term trend upwards but it will have more price pull backs & more consolidations than other index. Traders might prefer to trade other indices other than this one if they are more used to trading the more stellar & robust trends found in the other top stock indices.
One of the reason this index has more oscillations than other indices is because it has more constituent stocks than other stock indices. This index also has got a weighting component in its calculation which contributes to making the stock index more volatile.
The S & P 500 Trade Chart
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