- Trading hours
- Tied to exchange hours
- Session
- Each index follows its home exchange; majors add pre- and post-market hours.
- Contract type
- CFD
- Margin
- One account, one margin pool; no second account between classes.
What is traded
The point value of a basket of a market's selected shares. It takes a position on that market as a whole without buying the shares one by one.
What to watch
News released while the exchange is shut enters the price as an opening gap. Daily movement runs above its usual range through earnings weeks.
What moves the price
Earnings seasons, growth and inflation prints, and the direction of bond yields.
Price chart
Instruments
- US500
- US100
- US30
- GER40
- UK100
- JP225
- EU50
- AUS200