According to the Securities

General: It represents an average of the variations of all the securities that are quoted on the stock exchange market.

According to the Moment of Reference
Of fixed basis: when it refers to a fix moment in time

Of variable basis: when the quotations are related in consecutive moments

According as How They Have Been Build
Of fixed basis: when it refers to a fix moment in time

Of variable basis: When the quotations are related in consecutive moments

According as How they have been Built
Short or general daily: Its applicability is annual and it is about that who begins and ends with the natural year. Its base is taken from the quotations of the last market session of the former exercise.

Normal long: It’s an index of quotation levels. Its mission is to correct the expansion of capitals when enough rights are sold as to respond to the subscription without having to pay out any amount. For that reason, the investor, when receiving their dividends he goes to the expansions with cost zero operations. Its finality is to correct dividends and expansion of capital. Here, the repercussion of the returns obtained is added for the investor:  the dividends are reinvested and the expansions of capital are taken under consideration. Its present value shows the evolution of the quotations and of the profitability obtained.

In Function of the Object
Of prices:  they measure the variations on the quotations of movable securities in general and of shares in particular. They are usually the short indexes, although they could also be long.

Of returns: it includes quotations and dividends received.
They are almost always the long indexes.

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