source text: "Jakie rozróżniamy rodzaje indeksów giełdowych?"

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FIRST DIVISION:
a. price indices,
b. income indices (price + dividends and rights issues) often with the notation TR (total return).

SECOND DIVISION OF INDICES:
a. national, regional or global,
b. sectoral, industry-related,
c. factor-based,
d. based on the level of economic development (DM, EM, FM),
e. based on the size of companies (small, medium, large),
f. based on market capitalization (market, equal, limited maximum percentage of a single financial instrument).

DM - developed markets,
EM - emerging markets,
FM - frontier markets.

And that should be enough to start with.

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We distinguish several types of stock indices, such as: 1. General indices: represent the overall state of the stock exchange and include all available stocks. An example is the WIG (Warsaw Stock Exchange Index) representing the Polish market. 2. Sectoral indices: track only stocks from one sector of the economy or industry. For example, the WIG-BANKS index focuses on bank stocks. 3. International indices: include stocks of companies listed on various exchanges in different countries. An example is the MSCI World index, which includes stocks of companies from markets around the world. 4. Market capitalization-weighted indices: consider the market value of each company in the index. An example is the WIG20 index, which consists of the 20 largest companies on the stock exchange. 5. Equally weighted indices: treat each company in the index as equally important. An example is the WIG-BUILDING index, where each company in the construction sector has the same weight.

There are many types of stock market indexes, but the most common ones are price indexes, market capitalization indexes, and volume-weighted indexes. Each of them reflects different aspects of the stock market. Find out which type of index best suits your needs.