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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[Oliver-Lucas]

Amazing video, A friend of mine referred me to a financial adviser sometime ago and we got talking about investment and money. I started investing with $120k and in the first 2 months, my portfolio was reading $274, 800. Crazy right!, I decided to reinvest my profit and gets more interesting. For over a year we have been working together making consistent profit just bought my second home 2 weeks ago and care for my family.

[loworochi]

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

[lewispi]

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

[JustinQuiksilver]

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!!

[adamw]

I've learned so much from this guy then Warren buffet

[duadua]

THANKS FOR BASIC INFORMATONIT, IT WILL APPRECIATABLE IF YOU SHARE A VIDEO FROM STEP-1 i.e open the home page of stockmarket web, select the related tab one by one and guide the begginer how to take trade.thanks

[weshakeandbake]

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

[kevinhouser]

I am a novice so no bashing please. I have no idea what he explained. What am I buying?

[phycadelicbeats]

I thought this guy worked at trading 212

[sujittamang]

im a Nepali citizen living in japan....how can i join the japanese stock market??? would be greatful if replied

[melindabendle]

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

[joeduece]

No 9 to 5 for this guy. Gee I wonder why.

[archielyall]

Would you recommend a teenager to invest in this as a long term investment?

[juiocesarsilvaneto]

what platform are you using in this video?

[onethousand]

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!