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Access to the world indices with extended trading hours
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Trade the S&P500 index (US SP 500) from 0.4 points
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Trade FTSE 100 (UK 100) from 1 pt and DAX (Germany 40)from 1.2 pts
What are indices?
An index is a "composite" measure of the performance of a particular market or sector of the economy. The index value represents the total value of all stocks that are included in it and is calculated as a weighted average.
Indices allow you to make trades not just on the shares of an individual company, but to join the rise or fall of an entire industry (IT, engineering, etc.).
Major stock indices (stock exchange indices of countries around the world) include, among others, the following: S&P 500, Dow Jones, Nasdaq, FTSE100, Nikkei225, DAX, CAC40, Euro Stoxx 50, ASX200.
Most often, stock indices are a number that characterizes the state of the stock market as a whole - the market in which the shares of the companies included in the index are represented.
Advantages of trading indices
Indices are used to track the performance of a basket of securities. For example, if you trade the indices of a stock index that consists of several stocks, you are essentially opening positions in several stocks at once. This is at once a more economical and less stressful way to diversify your investment portfolio across different sectors and trade a basket of stocks. For this reason, when you trade indices, there is no need to analyze each company because the index is made up of several companies.
This gives a more accurate picture of the state of a country's economy. In this respect, instead of trading individual stocks, you trade a basket of stocks through an index, diversifying your positions and protecting yourself from unpredictable fluctuations caused by economic news updates.
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Easy access
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Low margin
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High volatility
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Easy to understand
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Trading on a modern platform