What is the S&P 500 Index and How Can You Trade it?

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Here we discuss the S&P 500 Index, the "broad" U.S. index, encompassing 500 of the largest company in the economy and possibly providing the best idea of how all sectors are working at any given time.

But what is the S&P 500 100 index? The S&P 500 is among the top American indexes as it represents some of the largest public companies in the U.S. The S&P 500 index focuses on the so-called large-cap sector and is float-weighted – it's price level and list of companies are adjusted by the number of shares available for public trading.

The S&P 500 is believed to be preferred by institutional investors like pension funds, banks and hedge funds, whereas the Dow Jones has been the go-to index for individual, retail investors. As it's broader and provides a wider picture with 500 companies in it, institutional investors prefer looking and investing in it because it has more stocks across all economic sectors (whereas the Dow has only 30 companies).

As a stock index for beginners, it can also be found as the US 500 index and together with the Dow Jones are cited as the best gauges of the U.S. stock market. The focus of this video is index trading for beginners but if you have any questions, leave us a comment below and we'll get back to you.

So if you want to learn stock trading for beginners and also understand "how can I trade the S&P?", watch this video and subscribe to our channel for regular updates about this US stock index.

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Comments (28) on “What is the S&P 500 Index and How Can You Trade it?”

  4. Really helpful video. Keep doing what you’re doing and stay happy. Respect

  5. Thanks for the video.
    Do you know how to calculate your position size when trading the US500? I can’t seem to see it on any of the online position size calculators.
    Thanks

    1. Hi it depends how you are trading it e.g. futures or CFDs etc. You can see in these videos that when I put the stop in, I aim to risk only £200 on the trade and size the trade accordingly.

  9. THIS IS WONDERFUL INFORMATION NEED’S TO BE FOR SOMEONE THAT HAS HIGHI INFORMATION LOCKED DOWN 🇺🇸📡🇺🇸

  11. i’m 48 seconds into the video and (not kidding) he literally said the same thing 4 times which was pretty much “we are gona take a look at s&p 500 index”…
    appreciate your work, but pls don’t do this, its extremely annoying!

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  13. I used to see this as a kid and I was always intrigued by it but also utterly confused. Thanks for explaining

  16. Hi. Can you please tell me what the red negative or green positive figure means on the s&p 500 and other indexes? The one that changes every few seconds. Is it like how much points the stock is up or down when compared to the what it opened at for that day? What is it? Please answer!!

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