Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500) - tracks 500 of the most widely held domestic large-company stocks, which represent about 70 percent of the U.S. stock market's total
Dow Jones industrial average tracks 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks. Editors at Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, decide what stocks will be a part of the DJIA.
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Schwab 1000 - is made up of 1,000 of the largest domestic companies as measured by market capitalization (number of outstanding shares multiplied by the current share price). It tracks large and medium-size stocks.
Wilshire 4500 - tracks the fortunes of 6,500 medium and small company stocks, and excludes large stocks that make up the S&P 500.
S&P MidCap 400 - benchmarks 400 medium-size U.S. company stocks.
Russell 1000, 2000, and 3000 - Russell ranks all stocks from largest to smallest, by market value.
Russell 3000 - the top 3000 stocks by market value make up the Russell 3000 (the Russell 3000 is a less inclusive look of the total market than the Wilshire 5000)
Russell 2000 - follows the performance of 2,000 small-company stocks (the bottom two-thirds of all stocks by market value)
Russell 1000 - the Russell 1000 is a broarder look at big stocks than the S&P 500 (it is made up of the top one-third of all stocks by market value)
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S&P SmallCap 600 - tracks 600 small-company domestic stocks
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Wilshire Small Cap Index measures 1,750 small-company domestic stocks.
Schwab Small Cap Index measures 1,000 small-company domestic stocks.
Lehman brothers Aggregate Bond Index - measures 6,600 taxable government, investment-grade corporate, and mortgage-backed securities.
Nasdaq composite - contains 4500 stocks
Nasdaq 100 - tracks Nasdaq's 100 biggest non-financial stocks that have been traded for at least two years, weighted by market value. The Nasdaq 100 is an index you might want to consider as a guide to the tech sector, but not as a guide to the market as a whole.
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