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by hkmurakami 4402 days ago
If following the S&P500, you'd want to weight it by the equivalent of "market cap". From what I can tell from the caption on the price index [1], this seems to be an equal weight index (which in the case of the stock market, results in a larger beta than the actual index).

[1] http://octopart.com/component-price-index