> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://auramarkets.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Indices overview

> 25 world indices grouped by region, plus the volatility shelf.

The [Indices](https://auramarkets.io/indices) page is the world map of equity markets in one screen. **25 indices** across three regions, plus a **volatility shelf** at the bottom for the vol-and-fear gauges.

Use it to scan for outliers — anything in deep red or green is asking a question.

## What's covered

### Americas (8)

| Ticker  | Index            | Country |
| ------- | ---------------- | ------- |
| ^GSPC   | S\&P 500         | US      |
| ^IXIC   | NASDAQ Composite | US      |
| ^DJI    | Dow Jones        | US      |
| ^RUT    | Russell 2000     | US      |
| ^NDX    | NASDAQ 100       | US      |
| ^GSPTSE | S\&P/TSX         | Canada  |
| ^BVSP   | Bovespa          | Brazil  |
| ^MXX    | IPC              | Mexico  |

### Europe (8)

| Ticker     | Index         | Country     |
| ---------- | ------------- | ----------- |
| ^FTSE      | FTSE 100      | UK          |
| ^GDAXI     | DAX           | Germany     |
| ^FCHI      | CAC 40        | France      |
| ^STOXX50E  | Euro Stoxx 50 | EU          |
| ^IBEX      | IBEX 35       | Spain       |
| FTSEMIB.MI | FTSE MIB      | Italy       |
| ^AEX       | AEX           | Netherlands |
| ^SSMI      | SMI           | Switzerland |

### Asia-Pacific (9)

| Ticker    | Index              | Country     |
| --------- | ------------------ | ----------- |
| ^N225     | Nikkei 225         | Japan       |
| ^HSI      | Hang Seng          | Hong Kong   |
| 000001.SS | Shanghai Composite | China       |
| ^KS11     | KOSPI              | South Korea |
| ^TWII     | TAIEX              | Taiwan      |
| ^AXJO     | ASX 200            | Australia   |
| ^BSESN    | Sensex             | India       |
| ^NSEI     | Nifty 50           | India       |
| ^STI      | Straits Times      | Singapore   |

### Volatility shelf

VIX, VIX3M, VXN, MOVE, SKEW, VVIX, COR3M — the vol-and-fear gauges, displayed as cards at the bottom of the page.

→ [What each volatility ticker tells you](/indices/volatility-tickers)

<Note>
  The **Volatility** and **Market Breadth** panels each have a **gear icon** in their header — click it to customize which metrics (including the breadth cockpit’s five dimensions) show. The **World Indices** regions have per-region gears too. And the page-header **Layout** button goes further — [remove and rearrange entire sections](/getting-started/customize).
</Note>

## The comparison chart

Up top, one chart overlays your chosen series as **% change from the window's start** — S\&P vs NASDAQ 100 vs Russell vs Dow out of the box.

The **+** picker adds anything to the mix, organized in four groups:

* **Indices** — the 25 world indices
* **Sectors** — the 11 US sector ETFs
* **Factors** — equal-weight S\&P (RSP), large growth/value, momentum, low volatility, quality, high beta, dividend
* **Baskets (L/S)** — auramarkets' own factor baskets (below)
* **Industry Groups** — \~35 groups from software and semis through uranium, copper miners, and cloud
* **Any stock** — type a ticker or company name in the picker's search box and an **Add stock** entry appears; picking it fetches that name's history and drops it on the chart as a normal series. Your additions persist across visits.

It runs on the same engine as the [stock pop-out](/indices/stock-chart), so all the TradingView-style moves work here too:

* **Hover** — crosshair with a per-index readout, each value colored green/red (with time-of-day on intraday views)
* **Scroll** — zoom the time axis, anchored at your cursor; **drag the plot** to pan
* **Drag the x- or y-axis strip** to stretch that axis; **double-click** to reset
* **Timeframes** — 1D through 3Y, plus **Custom** with start/end date pickers. The 1D view anchors to the prior close, so overnight gaps show.

Short windows plot at **sub-daily resolution**: 1D uses 5-minute bars, **1W uses 15-minute bars, and 1M is hourly** — so a week actually looks like a week of tape, not five dots. 3M and longer stay daily. (Custom-added stocks are daily-only; if one is selected on 1W/1M the whole chart falls back to daily so the lines stay aligned.)

The legend below doubles as the scoreboard — each index's current window % lives next to its name, and clicking a legend entry toggles that line on or off.

### The factor baskets

The **Baskets (L/S)** group carries five series auramarkets computes in-house — the same kind of custom baskets banks publish behind Bloomberg licensing, rebuilt transparently on a \~900-name liquid universe:

| Basket                  | Construction                                                                                                                   |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Momentum L/S**        | 12-minus-1-month winners minus losers (top vs bottom quintile, equal-weighted legs)                                            |
| **High Beta L/S**       | Highest- vs lowest-beta quintiles (1-year OLS beta vs SPY)                                                                     |
| **Low Vol L/S**         | Lowest- vs highest-volatility quintiles                                                                                        |
| **Non-Profitable Tech** | Tech names with negative trailing-12-month GAAP EPS (point-in-time by SEC filing date), cap-weighted with a 5% single-name cap |
| **Most Shorted**        | Top decile by short interest as a share of shares outstanding, from FINRA's bi-monthly publications, equal-weighted            |

All are point-in-time month-end rebalances with buy-and-hold drift in between, and each is validated against a reference ETF (the momentum long leg runs \~0.91 daily correlation to MTUM; high beta \~0.95 to SPHB; low vol \~0.97 to SPLV). The L/S spreads are market-neutral; the two long baskets are the classic squeeze/de-grossing gauges.

**→ [The Factors page](/indices/factors)** (nav: Markets → Factors) is their full home — scoreboard, rotation quadrant, correlation matrix, monthly quilt, and the complete membership books.

Why they exist: extreme moves in these spreads mark **positioning events** — a momentum unwind, a short squeeze, a de-grossing day — that index-level charts hide. When one moves ≥2σ against its own history, it surfaces automatically as an observation in the [Market Pulse equities read](/macro/market-pulse#the-equities-card). Daily series (no intraday), so they plot at daily resolution on any timeframe.

## Below the index map

Scroll past the 25 cards and the page turns into a US single-stock dashboard: **Top Gainers / Top Losers**, a **Today's Earnings** strip, then **New Highs / New Lows**, then **Above MA / Below MA**, then **Sectors** and **Industry Groups**, then **Factor Rotation** (powered by the [in-house factor baskets](/indices/factors)) and **Sector Rotation** (ratio pairs), and finally the **Thematic Heatmap** — a full-market treemap you can flip between a 40-theme thematic taxonomy and the classic S\&P 500 sector map.

The Sectors, Industry Groups, and both rotation panels each offer **three views**: ranked bars, a line chart, and a **correlation matrix** — trailing-60-session daily-return correlations, color-coded (blue = moves together, red = opposes). The matrix is the crowding check: when everything reads blue, the rotation trades are really one trade.

On panels with a chart view (the movers, Sectors, and Industry Groups), the **1D** line charts trace the *real intraday path* — 15-minute sampling through the session — not a straight close-to-close line, so you can see whether a +1% day was a steady grind or a morning spike that faded.

### Today's Earnings

Two cards — **Before Open** and **After Close** — listing the day's reporters sorted by size, each with sector, market cap, implied move, and EPS estimate. A **Notable / All** toggle keeps it tight (Notable shows the ≥\$10B names), and clicking any row opens that name's [stock pop-out](/indices/stock-chart). A **Full calendar →** link jumps to the macro earnings calendar.

**The panel updates live as results land.** Once a name reports, its row flips to results mode:

* A **BEAT / MISS / IN LINE** pill
* The **actual price reaction** replaces the implied move (hover to compare against what options had priced)
* The estimate line becomes `EPS 6.14 vs 5.59 est (+5.9%)`

Before-open names show their tape reaction from 9:30; the EPS numbers join within minutes-to-an-hour of each print as they're published. The panel refreshes itself every few minutes — no reload needed. After-hours reporters never show a same-day "reaction" (theirs isn't visible until the next session).

→ [Which names are at new highs / lows](/indices/highs-lows)

→ [Which names are testing or stretched from a key moving average](/indices/moving-averages)

→ [Where the market is moving, theme by theme](/indices/thematic-heatmap)

<Note>
  Every selector and toggle on this page — the movers market and timeframe, %/Zσ mode, bars/chart view, the index-table columns, and the rest — is **remembered per account**, so the page reopens exactly how you left it.
</Note>

## How most people use it

* **Morning scan** — open Indices, eye sweep across regions for outliers
* **Cross-region check** — when US is up but Asia/Europe were red overnight, that's a story worth digging into
* **Vol context** — when you're watching the S\&P, glance at the volatility shelf to see whether vol is confirming or rejecting the move

→ [How to read each card](/indices/reading-cards)