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Do you know the difference between degrees Farenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin? What temp does water freeze at? Well, could be zero, could be 32, could be (umm...) 273? Same actual "energy level", just different scales. Stock market indices are kinda the same -- different ways of measuring all or some part of the market. The market is big, and sometimes we want to "slice and dice it" in different ways. The S&P 500 measures the performance of 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies. (It's NOT actually the 500 largest companies in America, because some of them are private.) "The Dow" usually means the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which measures the performance of 30 U.S. mostly-manufacturers. The Nasdaq Composite index and the Russell 2000 and -many- others measure other subsets of the U.S. markets. Other indices measure European, Asian, German, Canadian markets, and so on. If there's a piece of the markets that's interesting, there's an index to measure it. ONCE UPON A TIME, the numbers actually meant something in terms of actual share prices of their components. That is no longer the case. Enough for one sitting? I can go deeper if you want... More on reddit.com

Let's start with what we mean when we say a "Stock." There are lots of technical divisions in the Stock Market (equities, securities, shares, options, etc), but for the sake of this explanation let's generalize and say that to buy Stock in a company means buying a very small "share" of ownership in that company. So if you buy one share of GM (current price $25.86), you become a (very, very small) part owner of General Motors, along with all other stockholders in GM. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is a Stock Market: a Place where people buy and sell shares of Stock (although in the modern world, you don't have to physically be inside the walls of the NYSE to exchange stock). Many companies are "Listed" on the New York Stock Exchange, meaning that you can buy and sell that company's stock at that market. The Price of those stocks are moving constantly as trades occur. So you can look at any of the number of NYSE publishes price data and see the price of GM. But what if you want a quick picture of "The Market" - meaning whether the price of Stocks in general is increasing or decreasing? For that, you might want to track the average price of a group of stocks. This is called an Index. The Dow Jones Industrials Average and the Standard and Poor's 500 are both indexes: they track the weighted average of a number of different stocks. What stocks exactly are part of those indexes changes from time to time, but one of the reasons those 2 indexes are so prominent is that they have been in existence for a long time tracking roughly the same kinds of stocks, so you can look at longer-term trends in the index price. The Dow Jones Industrials Average tracks 30 large US companies, and the S&P 500 tracks (surprise!) 500 US Companies. Now, I've skipped one thing you asked about - NASDAQ, because people use the word to mean two different things. There is a NASDAQ exchange - another Stock Market - that has a different set of companies listed than the NYSE. There is also the "NASDAQ 100," which is another Index, that tracks a set of 100 companies listed in the NASDAQ exchange. More on reddit.com