Re: S&P 500 trading

["Gerard Heuby" <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sean,

It's right SPX is the index itself.
You can trade it through futures on the CME and options.
Regarding futures, there are two contracts :
- Ticker SP for the large one (250 USD/point) during market hours on the
pit.
- Ticker ES for the E-mini (50 USD/point) on the GLOBEX .
Months are H,M,U,Z , so you get for instance SP Z0 for December 2000
contract.

Try http://www.cme.com/market/equity/index.html

I do not trade options so I leave it to somebody else.

Take care.
Gerard


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Taylor" <sean.taylor@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Metastock List" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 2:23 PM
Subject: S&P 500 trading


> If I want to buy/sell the S&P 500, what instrument(s) should I/could I
use?
> I'm told that SPX is simply the index and cannot be traded, one has to
trade
> instruments that reflex the index.
> Can anybody shed further light on this for me ?
>
> Many thanks,
> Sean
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