It’s High Time for a Cannabis Index: Introducing /S420
The Small Exchange's new futures product
- $1 per tick.
- Costs $204 in Buying Power Reduction (BPR) to trade on tastyworks
- Measures the performance of companies involved in the cannabis industry
- 21 companies — no small cap nonsense. All liquid.
- Trades very similar to MJ — hedge 50 shares of MJ with 1 /S420 contract. The correlation is high at +0.96.
- The futures are “cash settled” meaning it will settle to the index. This can be seen on the tastyworks platform as S420:SME.
- Components and Weights can be found HERE.
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Cherry Picks is written in collaboration with Michael Rechenthin, PhD, Head of Data Science at tastytrade; James Blakeway, CEO of Quiet Foundation, a data science-driven subsidiary of tastytrade; and John Kicklighter, Chief Strategist at DailyFx with an expertise in fundamental analysis and market themes.
