Most major brokerages such as , , and Interactive Brokers offer stock index futures.
If the market were to fall, the Dow Futures trader could lose huge sums of money.
For brevity, it is simply referred to as the Dow Jones Index and is the basis of a whole family of indexes.
That simplicity, the high trading volumes, and the leverage available have made Dow futures a popular way to trade the overall U.
The market background is neutral.
For example, if you opened the trade by buying five E-mini Dow contracts, you would close the trade by selling them with the same futures contract expiration date.