How to Trade FTSE 100; FTSE 250/FTSE 350 Explained 👧

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✅ How to Trade the FTSE 100: Footsie Explained https://www.financial-spread-betting.... This is a video form the Trading Basics series. The FTSE 100 Index is the most widely followed UK stock market index. It is comprised of the top 100 UK listed companies (these are often referred as ‘blue chip’ companies), ranked by market capitalisation. FTSE 100 stands for the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie". The FTSE100 can be seen as a kind of "summary" of its constituent parts - the largest 100 publicly traded companies on the London Stock Exchange. OK.

The index is not an even split though, in that the larger companies represent a bigger portion of the FTSE100 meaning that big listed companies will make more of a difference to the index than smaller companies . In fact, the top 10 companies represent ~47% of the FTSE100 value. As such the value of the FTSE 100 will go up and down with the value of its shares.

FTSE 100 vs FTSE 250 vs FTSE SmallCap

The FTSE 100 name originates from when it was owned 50/50 by the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange (hence FTSE - FT and SE) and the fact it contains 100 companies. The FTSE 100 was launched on the 3rd January 1984 with a starting value of 1,000. Since then the make-up of the index has changed enormously

The FTSE 100 is now maintained by the FTSE group which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange. Although the FTSE 100 is the most famous index the company produces, FTSE Group also calculates over 100,000 other indices, covering markets around the world, every day.

In the UK market, the other FTSE UK indices include:
the FTSE 250 (the next 250 largest companies after the FTSE 100) and
the FTSE SmallCap (the companies smaller than those).

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