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The Dow
Jones Industrial Average Index (DJIA) was created by
Wall Street Journal editor and the Dow Jones &
Company creator Charles Dow and Edward Jones. Mr. Dow
and Mr. Jones compiled the
Dow Jones Industrial Average Index in order to gauge the performance of the
industrial components of The United States of
America's stock markets. The Dow Jones Industrial
Average Index was first published on May 26, 1896.
At that time, the Dow represented only 12 various
industrial stocks. General Electric is the only
remaining original company still in the Dow Jones
Index today.
Today
the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index is the most
widely followed stock market in the world. The
Chicago Board of Trade hosts the Dow Jones futures and
options pits and gives investors a choice of full
size or mini contracts. The mini contract is half
the size of the full contract.
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Indices can be either
price-weighted such as the Dow Jones Industrial
Average or capitalization-weighted like the Standard
and Poor's 500 Index. In a price-weighted index,
individual stock prices are simply added together
and then divided by the divisor. Stocks with higher
prices have a higher weighting. In a
capitilization-weighted index, the company with the
highest total dollar value of its stock has the
highest weighting.
In today's volatile
stock market conditions, many savvy stock investors
use the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures
and options to hedge their portfolio risks against
stock market declines.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average Index Futures and
Options
Stock
Index Futures are contracts to buy or sell the value
of a specific stock index in the future at a
specified price. So if you bought a Dow Jones
Futures contract at 13,000 you are leveraging
$130,000 of the Dow Jones Index.
Contract Size- One (DJIA) futures contract of a
specified month X $10
Contract Months- (March, June, September, December)
and serial months
Trading
Hours- 8:20 am EST- 4:15 pm
Tick
Size- $10
Futures Ticker
Symbol- DJ
Mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index Futures and
Options
Contract Size- One (DJIA) futures contract of a
specified month X $5
Contract Months- (March, June, September, December)
and serial months
Trading
Hours- 8:20 am EST- 4:15 pm
Tick
Size- $5
Futures Ticker
Symbol- YM
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