Shanghai Index Beats Dow Jones at GMO Click in June

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GMO Click's CFD trading statistics for June show that its clients preferred trading the Hang Seng and the Shanghai A50 Index in June more than during the previous month. As the Chinese stock market has experienced a massive drop over the past month it will be interesting to see if next month the tremendous Volatility Volatility In finance, volatility refers to the amount of change in the rate of a financial instrument, such as commodities, currencies, or stocks, over a given time period. Essentially, volatility describes the nature of an instrument’s fluctuation; a highly volatile security equates to large fluctuations in price, and a low volatile security equates to timid fluctuations in price. Volatility is an important statistical indicator used by financial traders to assist them in developing trading systems. Trad In finance, volatility refers to the amount of change in the rate of a financial instrument, such as commodities, currencies, or stocks, over a given time period. Essentially, volatility describes the nature of an instrument’s fluctuation; a highly volatile security equates to large fluctuations in price, and a low volatile security equates to timid fluctuations in price. Volatility is an important statistical indicator used by financial traders to assist them in developing trading systems. Trad Read this Term leads to it being even more popular in July.

The top three spots have consistently been reserved for the Japanese Nikkei 225 index, crude oil and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). In June however, the Shanghai index beat the leading American portfolio of the 30 largest U.S blue chip stocks and broke into the top three spot.

The Hong Kong index also climbed to the fifth place in June, beating the always popular gold. The remaining top ten are associated with a rather typical mix of products including the German Dax index, the other two major U.S. equity indices S&P 500 and NASDAQ.

Facebook Drops

In the GMO CLICK ranking of top ten single stock CFDS we can also see the growing importance of Chinese stocks with three entries on the list. Apple remained the most popular stock, but Twitter took out Facebook for the second place, which dropped all the way to the ninth spot.

Earlier this month, GMO Click revealed that its forex trading volumes jumped by about 30% in June. The value of exchange-traded contracts during the month also increased in June to ¥591 billon.