It would be an interesting exercise to calculate the total value of
shares/contracts traded in the global multiverse in order to gain
exposure to the S&P500 index.
To buy the S&P500, you can:
- go long SPY (x1), SSO (x2), UPRO (x3) or a few other less liquid
ETFs
- go short SH (x-1), SDS (x-2), SPXU (x-3) or a few other less
liquid inverse ETFs
- go long the e-mini ES futures contract or the original larger SP
futures contract
- trade options
- here in the UK, you can gain exposure to the S&P500 via a
Pound Sterling denominated ETF which trades during London Stock
Exchange hours - how? I emailed iShares to find out: "...using
proprietary pricing models that utilise futures, ADRs and proxy
pricing information to indicate underlying price (as markets would
be trading at different times)."
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Title: Other S&P500 trading vehicles Falcon,
Different Vehicles to Trade SPY System
Posted by philosoraptor on 6th of May 2011 at 09:28 am
Falcon, my blog post from the other day:
It would be an interesting exercise to calculate the total value of shares/contracts traded in the global multiverse in order to gain exposure to the S&P500 index.
To buy the S&P500, you can:
- go long SPY (x1), SSO (x2), UPRO (x3) or a few other less liquid ETFs
- go short SH (x-1), SDS (x-2), SPXU (x-3) or a few other less liquid inverse ETFs
- go long the e-mini ES futures contract or the original larger SP futures contract
- trade options
- here in the UK, you can gain exposure to the S&P500 via a Pound Sterling denominated ETF which trades during London Stock Exchange hours - how? I emailed iShares to find out: "...using proprietary pricing models that utilise futures, ADRs and proxy pricing information to indicate underlying price (as markets would be trading at different times)."