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Stock Index Futures and Options Education. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | A stock index futures contract is a futures contract that has as its underlying, a basket of stocks that been brought together to form an index made of the component stocks. |
 | | There are stock index futures contracts, based on blue-chip stocks, small and mid-cap stocks, and international stocks, that are traded on exchanges globally, for example DAX Futures, the blue chip index of Deutsche Borse AG, traded on the Eurex exchange, and the capitalization-weighted FTSE 100, traded on Euronext.Liffe. |
 | | Stock index futures can be also be used to morph the portfolio's market exposure, for example, purchasing CME Russell 2000 futures based on the capitalization-weighted Russell 2000 Index, can be done in order to skew a portfolio's exposure towards small-capitalization stocks. |
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