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Fair Value and S&P 500 Futures- How are they Related?

November 15th, 2009 · 48 Comments

You turn on CNBC early one morning:
The S&P Futures are UP 5 points…..GREAT!!!!!!!!!!
Fair Value is + 10…….what’s that mean?
The market is expected to open DOWN…….ughhhh……why?
To understand how this works, we need to first understand the relationship between a financial index (in this case the S&P 500) and its index futures:
The S&P 500 Index- An index [...]

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