rather than pick out individual stocks to trade, it can often be worthwhile to trade the indices themselves, especially in times of high volatility.

for those so inclined, i attach below charts for FTSE and FTSE 250, though one might equally be tempted to trade Dow or S&P, which is significantly broader in its coverage, or even NASDAQ

for ease of reading, i have attached 1 year and 3 month charts in each instance

Morning all

I've had a small short @6,380 - its been trying all morning to go higher. Resistance was @6,380.57.

And out for now @65.

Dreamliner: Japan's ANA cancels more Boeing 787 flights

Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has said it will cancel all Boeing 787 flights until at least the end of May, in the latest blow to Boeing.

International regulators grounded all 787 Dreamliners in January so that safety checks could be carried out on their lithium ion batteries.

ANA is cancelling more than 1,700 flights in April and May, a period that includes Japan's Golden Week holiday.

It takes the total number of affected ANA Dreamliner flights to 3,600.

ANA is Boeing's biggest Dreamliner customer, with 17 of the world's 50 operational 787s.

HG+HC index
i reckon the fall is overdone, primarily reflecting a slump in RB sp (see that thread for reason), so have had a dabble at 9291

Moody's UK rating downgrade
we can comfortably ignore (fos)fred's garbage on this issue on the "NOWT" thread .....
USA was similarly downgraded in 2011, but this has long been forgotten by both the stock markets and the currency players
while £ has taken a battering against € - currently 1.14 against 1.25 2/3 months back - i shall watch with interest this ROE not only over the next 6-12 months, but also what happens after say the next general election in 2015

Dow
only last week (thursday), dow was languishing at around 13850, but in a sudden turnaround, current cash indicates 14050 ..... will this signal the (quite) long-awaited surge-and-hold through 14,000? - there have been a few recent attempts and failures at this level

18,850? you might want to revise that!

Hope this helps! ;o)

happy now :-) ?

Happier :-)

Still around recent highs and RSI picking up.

just been closed out of dow at 14025, but as that was a pretty gain of 140 points since thursday, i'm hardly complaining

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ditto from C+M index at 3895 :-))

Excellent trading chart this pm.

dow like zebedee tonight

Seems as though the Yanks are concerned about the italian election results??? A bit hard to believe, but that's what Bloomberg are reporting.

arguably an excuse for a consolidation ..... glad i cashed in quite a bit today

Just had a small long @6246.3.

no wonder italy is still a laughing stock ....

Italians wrung their hands at prospects of an inconclusive result that will mean more delays to these reforms .....

so why did so many of them vote for some buffoon?

Main driver is sequestration in the US.

A thing of beauty.