What is the Margin Requirement for 1 Lot of US 500 Index? - US 500 Index

Standard & Poor's 500 is a index that tracks capitalization of 500 stocks that represent major industries in American economy. The list of 500 companies is made up of stocks shown in NYSE & NASDAQ.

Index Contracts & Specifications - US 500 Index

Margin Requirement Per 1 Lot for US 500 is - $ 12

Value per 1 Pips for US 500 is - $ 0.1

The US 500 just like the Dow Jones Industrial Average Stock Index is more volatile than most of the other Top Traded Index, The US 500 index will over the long-term trend upward but it'll have more price pullbacks & more consolidations than other stock index. Traders may prefer to trade other indexes other than this one if they are more accustomed to trading the 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 indexes. This index also has weighting factor in its calculation which also contributes to making it more volatile.

The US 500 Trade Chart