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The Stoxx Europe 600 index, the benchmark for the region, was up 1.3%. Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC rose 0.8% and 1.4% respectively, while London’s FTSE 100 was trading 1.3% higher on the day.
The result is that a trader who believed the market would rally could simply acquire Dow Futures and make a huge amount of profit as a result of the leverage factor; if the market were to rise to 14,000, for instance, from the current 10,000, each Dow Futures contract would gain $20,000 in value (4,000 point rise x 5 leverage factor = $20,000). [5]
Stock futures traded slightly lower Thursday morning to give back some gains from a day earlier, as September selling pressure returned to equity markets.
S&P Futures trade with a multiplier, sized to correspond to $250 per point per contract. If the S&P Futures are trading at 2,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $500,000. For every 1 point the S&P 500 Index fluctuates, the S&P Futures contract will increase or decrease $250.
In 2002, the Dow dropped to a four-year low of 7,286 on September 24, 2002, due to the stock market downturn of 2002 and lingering effects of the dot-com bubble. Overall, while the NASDAQ index fell roughly 75% and the S&P 500 index fell roughly 50% between 2000 and 2002, the Dow only fell 27% during the same period.
The U.S. stock market soared on Wednesday, delivering significant gains in the first day of trading after the presidential election. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 3.6%. That performance ...
Stock market today: Stock futures set for bounce back after Fed, with Big Tech round 2 on deck. Brett LoGiurato. ... Futures tied to the benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.3%, ...
Futures trading is skyrocketing – CME's E-mini contracts averaged 3.5 million contracts a day in 2008, a 37 percent yearly increase in volume, while equity volume increased only 2 percent for the same period of time. [8] However studies reveal that hedging strategies still dominate speculation trade activity in every futures market studied. [9]