This tutorial is the best place to start for investors wanting to learn stock indices trading - Learn Indices Trading Tutorial...
Stock Indices are used to track or calculate the performance of a group of stocks in a particular stock exchange market. For example the FTSE 100 is a market index used to track the performance of the top 100 stocks that are listed on the London Stock Exchange...
The movement of these stock indices instruments is represented using charts similar to the currency charts.