The Dow Jones Industrial Average index is also referred to as the US 30 index or the Dow. It is a stock market index composed of 30 large companies quoted on the stock exchange in the USA. The index was established in 1896 by Charles Dow which means it is one of the oldest stock indices with a market capitalisation in excess of $8 (£6.37) trillions at the end of 2019. While similar indices are market capitalisation-weighted, this is not the case with Dow Jones, which is a price-weighted index. Consequently, changes in the price of any of the stocks included can have a positive or negative effect on its value.
Dow Jones is composed of companies representing different sectors except for transportation and utility. The companies are coming from industries such as financial services, technology, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, personal products, etc. Some of the biggest companies, in terms of market capitalisation, included in the Dow Jones index are Microsoft, Apple, Visa and JP Morgan. Dow Jones provides an overview of the movement of the overall stock market and it serves as an indicator for economic health.
A variety of stock related factors can affect the value of the US 30 index because it is a price-weighted index tracking the performance of some of the largest stocks in the US. Also, factors affecting overall economic activity can place additional pressure on the value. Hence, traders should closely monitor for events which may affect stock prices along with the US economic data and the political situations.
In the five-years period since 2016 the Dow Jones had the lowest value of 15,780 at the beginning of 2016 whereas it had an all-time highest price at the beginning of February 2020 when it moved up to 29.400. As you can see, its value nearly doubled in five years. The price chart also shows that there is a continued upward trend extended over multiple decades.
The index also recorded a couple of major pullbacks. One of the last retracements occurred after 15 February 2020 (after reaching a peak of 29,400) moved the value down to 18,200, causing a loss of more than 10,000 points in less than a month. However, the value bounced back up to 23,800 in the following few weeks.
US 30 trading can be performed with different types of instruments or assets. Choose the one that provides liquidity, low costs, swift execution and focus on your strategy to trade US 30.
You can use futures contracts to trade Dow Jones. With them, you lock down the price of the asset and you have a defined expiration date. But fixing your price for a predefined period means that you do not have a high degree of flexibility to capture a trading opportunity that may arise until the expiration date. Moreover, US 30 trading with futures means that you cannot liquidate a portion of your position as you need to wait for the expiration date, or you can close the overall position by entering into the opposite contract. Hence, futures contracts may be a complicated trading instrument.
You can decide to trade US 30 using the binary options offered by financial companies. However, as easy as they seem to be, they certainly have some major drawbacks. Namely, the potential for high reward means that there is a high risk which could result in swift losses of your money. The trading on tight time frames is also increasing the risk of losing your money.
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Currency.com gives its clients leverage of up to 1:100 when they trade tokenised assets. Stated differently, if you decide to trade the tokenised Dow Jones index, you will need to provide 1 per cent of the capital for the desired position size. For example, if you put only 1 per cent or $100 (£79.59) of your capital to open a position worth $10,000 (£7,959), you can still generate a substantial profit.
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