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Costs & Margins
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Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is a US-based online retailer, which sells thousands of consumer products and subscriptions. It also has its Amazon Web Services segment, which sells computer storage and database to start-ups, businesses and governments.
As of 2021, Amazon boasted 300 million monthly active users, as well as an approximate market share of 50% of the US e-commerce market. Amazon.com is the fifth largest company in the world by market cap as of September 2022.
You can trade Amazon shares as a CFD with FOREX.com. You can also trade Amazon shares using our extended hours offering, which is completely separate from our regular offering. Search ‘Amazon Extended Hours’ in our platform.
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Margin From20.0 %
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Trading Hours1:30:00 PM - 8:00:00 PM
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Min Trade Size4
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Long0
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Short0
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Min Stop Distance0.0 Points
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Guaranteed Order Minimum15.0 Points
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Guaranteed Order Premium2.0 percentage of consideration
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Spreads
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Spreads From0.000 Points
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Margins
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0 - 78 80020.0 %
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78 800 +50.0 %
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Dealing
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Spreads0.000 Points
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Guaranteed Order Min Distance15.0 Points
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Margins
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0 - 78 80020.0 %
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78 800 +50.0 %
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Indices explained
What are indices used for?
Indices are used in a variety of ways by traders. They can give an instant idea of how a country’s economy is performing, can provide a useful way of assessing multiple stocks at once and provide lots of powerful trading opportunities.
Indices were created for the purpose of evaluating the performance of a stock market. If an index is rising, it means that the stocks it represents are moving up overall, generally a sign that businesses are doing well and economic health is strong. A falling index, on the other hand, is a signal that stocks are struggling, which may hint at deeper problems within an economy.
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.
Learn more about how indices work.
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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.
Learn more about indices.
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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 FOREX.com, 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.
You can use your FOREX.com account to trade CFDs on indices and index options. Open your trading account now.
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