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US stock futures rose early on Wednesday and bitcoin jumped as Donald Trump looked set to win the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, shrinking Kamala Harris ...
US stock futures steadied on Tuesday morning after a dramatic sell-off on Monday triggered by Chinese AI firm DeepSeek. Nasdaq 100 futures were up 0.6% just before 6:30 a.m. ET, while S&P 500 ...
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.
Calm has returned to the market after stocks snapped a record-setting run of wins.
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).
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 ...
The E-mini quickly became the most popular equity index futures contract in the world. The original ("big") S&P contract was subsequently split 2:1, bringing it to 250 times the index. Hedge funds often prefer trading the E-mini over the big S&P since the older ("big") contract still uses the open outcry pit trading method, with its inherent ...
Stocks slid into the close Friday, capping a challenging week for investors that saw the S&P 500 decline in four of five trading sessions. When the closing bell rang on Wall Street, all three ...