Many Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) use indexes as their underlying benchmarks, so it is equally important to  understand the different types of indexes. Your ETF investing strategy depends on them. The three main types  of indexes are price-weighted, value-weighted, and pure unweight. Also the capital market contains different  instruction the investors can use while executing their investment. Discuss the weighting methods used in index construction with their scheme?

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