67.90 % of retail investors lose their capital when trading CFDs with this provider.
CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 67.90 % of retail investors lose their capital when trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

EURO STOXX 50 INDEX - Definition and Characteristics

The EURO STOXX 50 Index represents the performance of the 50 largest companies among the 20 supersectors in terms of free-float market cap in Eurozone countries. The index has a fixed number of components and is part of the STOXX blue-chip index family.

The highest weighting in the index belongs to the technology sector – 16% as of April 2022. The Industrial goods and services sector has a 14% weight, followed by the Consumer products and services with a 10% weight.
Currently, Germany and France have the most companies in the index. It also makes sense since those are the two biggest economies in Europe.

The following table shows the number of companies per country as of April 2022.
 

Country Stocks
 France 15
 Germany 15
 Netherlands 8
 Spain 4
 Italy 3
 Ireland 3
 Belgium  1
 Finland 1
TOTAL 50
 

Some well-known companies included in the index are – Adidas, Airbus, Allianz, Bayer, BMW, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Telekom, ING, L’Oreal, SAP, Siemens, Volkswagen, and others.

The index calculation is a bit more complex than with other indices – it uses the Laspeyres formula, which measures price changes against a fixed base quantity weight.
 

Performance

The performance of the EU STOXX index has been pretty bad over the previous years. As evident from the chart, the index has not moved anywhere since 2014. Considering that the index consists of the biggest EU companies, we must say, that the performance is really disappointing.

Especially, when compared to the US equity indices, the difference in return is quite astonishing. Therefore, long-term investors might stay away from this index, but short-term traders could still benefit from its volatility.
 


Source: Purple Trading Metatrader 4


EU STOXX 50 - quotes and trading

You can trade the EU STOXX index in our Purple Trading Metatrader 4 platform. First, find the ticker STOXX50 in the Metatrader 4 platform and press the new order button. The following window will pop up. 


Source: Purple Trading Metatrader 4

Lot value calculation

When you click on the STOXX50 ticker in our Metatrader 4 platform, you can see that the spread between the Ask and Bid price is circa 2.00 EUR during the times of high liquidity (usually when London and New York are open for trading).

The minimal volume for this index is one micro lot (0.01). If you trade a mini lot (0.1), you will earn or lose 1 EUR for each EUR the index makes. When trading half a lot, each EUR of the index movement will yield 5 EUR of profit/loss. For example, you buy half a lot at 3,810 EUR, and the index goes to 3,840 EUR. Your total profit will be 150 EUR (calculated as 30 EUR movement * 5 EUR profit per each EUR of the move). The same logic applies to calculate your profit or loss when entering a short position.

Keep in mind, that this index is quoted in EUR; thus, if your account is in USD, each point of the index will yield slightly more in USD, according to the actual EURUSD rate.

As with everything, you can trade at the current market price (market execution), or you can use pending orders (limit and stop orders). It's not necessary to enter the stop-loss and take-profit order right now – you can open the trade without them and add them later.


 

Start trading STOXX50 today!

 

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Frequently asked questions

ASK
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The offering price on the market for which the buying positions are executed and selling positions are closed. It is higher than BID price.
BID
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Bidding price on the market for which the selling positions are executed and buying positions are closed. It is lower than ASK price and the chart displayed in MT4 is based on this price.
 
Lot
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The basic unit of traded volume. For currency pairs, it is 100,000 units of the base currency. Lot size varies between individual CFD-type instruments as it is based on the number of contracts set for each one.

 
Micro-lot
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A micro-lot is a trading unit derived from the standard trading unit, which in the Forex world is the lot. While 1 lot represents a transaction of 100,000 units of the currency mentioned first in a currency pair, the value of 1 micro lot is 1,000 units.

If you are interested in the relationship between lots, micro-lots, leverage, and margin, we recommend reading the article about micro-lots we wrote on the subject.

A micro lot is 0.01 lot.
Mini lot
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A mini lot is a volume of 0.1 lot.
Swap
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A fee charged for holding a trading position overnight. It is expressed in points or percents and it is directly proportional to the volume of the trading position held. Please note the Swap for Forex pairs and precious metals is being charged 3x on Wednesday, which includes also the weekend swaps. (Swap is charged at Wednesday - Thursday midnight) For other symbols is being charged 3x on Friday. (Swap is charged at Friday - Saturday midnight)
67.90 % of retail investors lose their capital when trading CFDs with this provider.
CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 67.90 % of retail investors lose their capital when trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.