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

There was a large 100.00 USD/JPY options barrier that got heavily defended a few days ago, shortie. I'm sure that punter will be a natural buyer now. :o)

Reversal or a breather, a breather I suspect...

EUR Retail PMI 44.2 43.7

nice start to the day for me with banked profit on hg+hc ..... now comfortably below exit point and might pop back in again shortly

nice start to the day for me with banked profit on hg+hc ..... now comfortably below exit point and might pop back in again shortly

Italian 10-y Bond Auction 3.94|1.4 4.66|1.3

USD Core PCE Price Index m/m 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%

USD Personal Spending m/m 0.2% 0.2% 0.7%

USD Personal Income m/m 0.2% 0.4% 1.1%

USD Pending Home Sales m/m 1.5% 1.1% -0.4%

dow is creeping through 14800, but keep a wary eye open as (if) it approaches 14900

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discretion being the better part of valour, have shut dow long at 14808 for another nice profit .... that still leaves a ftse long running as well as (another) hg+hc

CMC showing the FTSE @ 6,945 and causing me a problem!

Skinny, that's a helluva jump!
Possibly 6495?

Software problem apparently!

German Retail Sales m/m -0.3% -0.2% -0.3%

GfK German Consumer Climate 6.2 5.9 5.9

French Consumer Spending m/m 1.3% 0.2% -0.2%

Spanish Flash GDP q/q -0.5% -0.5% -0.8%

German Unemployment Change 4K 2K 13K

Italian Monthly Unemployment Rate 11.5% 11.7% 11.6%

GBP Net Lending to Individuals m/m 0.9B 0.9B 1.5B

GBP M4 Money Supply m/m -0.9% 0.4% -0.5%

GBP Mortgage Approvals 54K 53K 52K

CAD GDP m/m 0.3% 0.2% 0.2%

CAD RMPI m/m -1.7% 0.5% 2.2%

CAD IPPI m/m 0.1% 0.1% 1.4%

USD Employment Cost Index q/q 0.3% 0.5% 0.5%