What is the Margin Requirement per 1 Lot of US 500 Stock Index? - US500 Trading

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

Contracts and Specifications - US 500 Index

Margin Requirement per 1 Lot of US 500 is - $ 12

Value per 1Pip for US 500 is - $ 0.1

The US 500 just like the Dow Jones Industry Average Stock Index is more volatile than most of the other Top Traded Index, The US 500 stock index will over the long term trend upward but it'll have more pull backs and more consolidations than other index. Traders might prefer to trade other indexes other than this one if they are more accustomed to trading the 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 weighting component in its calculation which also contributes to making the index more volatile.

The US 500 Trade Chart

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