Posts Tagged stock index futures

• the world’s major stock index futures market - April 26th, 2010
  

  S & P 500 Index
  Standard & Poor’s Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is prepared in 1957. The initial constituent stocks from the 425 kinds of industrial stocks, 15 types of railroad stocks and 60 utility stocks formed. From July 1, 1976 start of its constituent stocks of 400 industrial stocks, 20 transportation [...]

• The basic system of Stock Index Futures - April 24th, 2010
  

  margin system
  When conducting futures investors, must follow the value of their trade in futures contracts to pay a certain percentage of funds, financial futures contracts as a performance guarantee, before trading in the futures contract. We often say that money is a deposit. For example: Mainland IF1005 contract margin rate of [...]

• The role of stock index futures - April 24th, 2010
  

  Stock index futures has three main purposes:
  I, on the equity portfolio risk management, namely, guarding against Systemic risk (We usually say the broader market risk). Usually we use hedging to manage our stock investment risk.
  Second, using stock index futures Arbitrage. The so-called arbitrage, is the use of stock index futures pricing [...]