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

Edit - beaten to it!

Ah brilliant - thanks guys, I hadn't known that!

Pleased to be of assistance, Skinners.

Maybe you could return the favour... do you know anything about using mod_rewrite rule in apache .htaccess for a wildcard subdomain rewrite? :o)

In my best Anaken Skywalker voice when talking to Obi-Wan Kenobi - I know nothing - sorry.

There seems to be plenty of 'info' out there, but as I'm not at all familiar with it, I can't tell if its useful or not??

Ta, Skinners, but I did have my tongue planted firmly in my cheek when I wrote that. I do actually know how to do it, but it's my webhost's support team in Bangalore that have managed to bugger a server configuration setting up somehow.

As I said - I know nothing, so you got me a few days early :-)

Guess I should learn one of these new fangled languages at some point.

really looking forward to voting UKIP at the forthcoming elections to give pseudo tory Cameron a kick up the Bull(y)ingdon!

When I was learning to trade Fx I used Hil's rules in post 11698 to go through the Forex thread. Very handy when you're looking for stuff!

US markets are open today as normal. ISM data and Construction Spending m/m due at 10:00 their time (is that 15:00 ours, with our time change?? - not sure!)

14:00 (2pm) Calendar Today

Thanks Skinny - should have checked there!

Having said that - I notice the 1pm figures haven't been updated.

On edit - it looks like it may be 3pm EST - BST

It does seem confusing, since I thought we were now back to 5 hours ahead... However, the PMI figures for March are now out: 54.6 (which I think is more or less as expected)

MarketWatch is still saying 'ISM figures dues at 10:00' - I make that 15:00 UK time

ISM index falls to 51.3% in March - down from 54.2%

31/03/2013 01:14
interesting....
Shareholders of the London Stock Exchange and LCH.Clearnet Group have approved LSE's acquisition of a 57.8% stake in the trans-Atlantic clearinghouse. The deal also has cleared all regulatory and antitrust obstacles, according to the LSE.

31/03/2013 03:44
SIX Group would consider bidding for Euronext, CEO says
If Euronext were for sale, SIX Group would be interested, said Urs Rueegsegger, CEO of the Swiss stock exchange operator. "Should [IntercontinentalExchange] put Euronext up for sale, we would certainly take a look," Rueegsegger said. He noted interest in Euronext's equity and derivatives business, financial-information services, and clearing and settlement operations. SIX Group also reported a nearly 47% increase in profit in 2012.
:-)))))))))))))))!

Spanish Unemployment Change -5.0K 30.2K 59.4K

Spanish Manufacturing PMI 44.2 46.2 46.8

Italian Manufacturing PMI 44.5 45.4 45.8