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Overview
Costs & Margins
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Japan 225 is our market for the Nikkei 225, the stock index that tracks the top 225 blue-chip companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It’s the country’s leading stock index, Japan’s equivalent of the Dow or the FTSE 100.
The Nikkei is price weighted, which means its price is influenced more by constituents with the largest share prices. Some of the companies with the greatest weight include Sony Corporation, Canon Inc, Nissan Motor Company and Honda Motor Company.
The index was created in 1950 to track the country’s reindustrialisation and growth following World War II.
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Margin From5 %
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Trading Hours24 hours / day *
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Min Trade Size10
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Long0
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Short0
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Min Stop Distance0 Points
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Guaranteed Order Minimum35 Points
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Guaranteed Order Premium7 units of quantity
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Spreads
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Spreads From10 Points
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Margins
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0 - 90 0005 %
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90 000 - 180 0006 %
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180 000 +15 %
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Dealing
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Spreads10 Points
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Guaranteed Order Min Distance35 Points
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Margins
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0 - 90 0005 %
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90 000 - 180 0006 %
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180 000 +15 %
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Stock indices are still used for this purpose today, but they’re also a popular asset class in their own right. It isn’t hard to see why – they enable you to take your position of the biggest stocks in an economy with a single trade, as well as offering high volatility and liquidity.
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What is a benchmark index?
A benchmark index is a group of stocks that is used as a measure of the market as a whole. Most of the major indices you’ve heard of are benchmarks: including the S&P 500 (US 500), Dow Jones (Wall Street) and FTSE 100 (UK 100).
Benchmark indices are useful to traders as a way to compare an individual security against the wider market. For example, say that you’ve found a US stock that has grown 20% over the past four years. You might compare that growth to the S&P 500 to see how it fares against 500 of the biggest US stocks.
If the S&P 500 has grown 40% over the past four years, then your stock has actually underperformed the wider market.
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What's the best way to trade indices?
There are multiple ways to trade indices, including via futures, options and CFDs. Each has its own benefits and drawbacks, so it’s worth doing your research to decide which works best for you.
Trading index CFDs with City Index, for example, enables you to go long or short on 21 major global indices. Trading index options, on the other hand, gives you access to advanced strategies such as straddles and strangles.
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