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What Is the Nasdaq 100

The Nasdaq 100 is an index of the hundred largest companies listed on the Nasdaq exchange, banks excluded, most of them technology and weighted by size, traded on a platform as USTEC or a similar name. This paper shows you the index in five lines with the real level of 25 August 2026; the idea as a microchip with a hundred pins; the index on the daily chart from June to September 2026; that day's 399.93 points at three brokers' tick values; and USTEC on your platform, with its real 10:00 price and the Specification line to read.

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Saman Rahbar

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The Nasdaq 100, in five lines

The Nasdaq 100 is an index of the hundred largest companies listed on the Nasdaq exchange, with banks and other financial firms left out by rule. Most of them are technology, chips, software, phones and online shops, and they are weighted by size. The number stood at 29,187.55 points at 10:00 on Tuesday 25 August 2026 in this library's bars. On a platform it is USTEC, NAS100 or US100, a CFD on the futures, where a CFD is a contract on the price difference and one lot is one index. That day it ran from 28,940.00 to 29,339.93, 399.93 points, which at a broker paying one dollar a point is 399.93 dollars a lot.

A microchip

Picture a microchip with a hundred pins. The index is the package; each pin is a company; and the current runs mostly through the gold pins, the biggest few, because the index weights by size. The Nasdaq 100 is the index of the companies that make the chips, the software and the phones, so a chip is its own picture, and the gold pins are the handful of firms whose share prices move the number far more than the other ninety together.

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