Derivatives - NASDAQ 100 Index
Stock Market
Investing &
Trading System
Now all the stocks of your favorite index in one security.
Have
you ever wished you could buy every stock represented in a high profile index
such as the NASDAQ 100,
Dow Jones Industrials, or S&P
500, but the cost of
buying each stock represented in such an index was prohibitive? Or have you
ever wished to own a basket of internet infrastructure or biotech companies,
but didn’t know how to accumulate the companies?
Now, single securities, known as Exchange Traded Funds (ETF), can track
the performance of a growing number of different
index funds. Most ETFs represent
a portfolio of stocks designed to track one specific index.
ETFs can be bought
and sold exactly like a stock of an individual company during the entire trading
day. Furthermore, they can be bought on margin, sold short or bought at limit
prices. Other ETFs allow you to invest by industry sector, size, region or
investment style. Exchange traded funds can help investors
build a diversified portfolio that’s easy to track.
NASDAQ 100 Futures, Options,
Index Shares
Listed below are some of the derivatives which you can trade using this indicator:
|
Securities |
Issuer |
Type |
Symbol / Root |
|
NASDAQ 100 Index Tracking Stock |
AMEX |
ETF |
QQQQ |
| NASDAQ 100 Index Linked Notes |
Goldman Sachs |
ETF |
GSN.A |
| NASDAQ 100 Index "RANGERS Plus" |
Lehman Brothers |
ETF |
RLN.A |
| NASDAQ 100 Index "SUNS" |
Lehman Brothers |
ETF |
LSQ.A |
|
Callable NASDAQ 100 Index "MITTS" |
Merrill Lynch |
ETF |
MNM |
|
NASDAQ 100 Index Strategic Return Notes |
Merrill Lynch |
ETF |
NSD |
|
0.04 percent NASDAQ 100 Index "PERKS" |
Morgan Stanley |
ETF |
PPN |
| NASDAQ 100 Index Principal-Protected Knock-Out
Notes |
Salomon Smith Barney |
ETF |
NSX.A |
|
NASDAQ 100 Index "TIERS" |
Salomon Smith Barney |
ETF |
NQE |
| NASDAQ 100 Index "TIERS" |
Salomon Smith Barney |
ETF |
NQH |
| NASDAQ 100 Index "TIERS" |
Salomon Smith Barney |
ETF |
TCS |
|
NASDAQ 100 Index Options |
CBOE |
Options |
NDX |
|
NASDAQ 100 Index Tracking Stock |
CBOE |
Options |
QQQQ |
|
CBOE Mini-NDX Index Options |
CBOE |
Options |
MNX |
|
CBOE Mini-NDX Long-Dated Options |
CBOE |
Options |
MML |
|
GSTI® Composite Index Options |
CBOE |
Options |
GTC |
|
NASDAQ 100 |
CME |
Options on Futures |
ND |
|
E-Mini NASDAQ 100 |
CME |
Futures |
NQ |
|
NASDAQ 100 |
CME |
Futures |
ND |
|
NASDAQ 100 Index ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds)
The American Stock Exchange is also the home of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- unique financial products combining the opportunities of indexing with the
advantages of stock trading.
The Amex pioneered the concept for
ETFs in 1993 with the introduction
of trading in SPDRs --Standard
& Poor's Depositary Receipts, an exchange-traded unit investment trust based
on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Currently, 30 different ETF unit investment
trusts or fund products are listed, all based on Indices from broad markets
(such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the
NASDAQ 100 Index), to industry sectors to foreign markets.
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