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

As long as it doesn't go sideways!!

cash dow not exactly full of beans ...... i think it was +40 first thing this morning and has now, quite quickly, dropped away to -25

ftse marginally following in sympathy

twitchy afternoon ahead i dare say

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cash dow now -60
ran and cashed a small short earlier; shame with hindsight :-)

BalerBoy,

See Nowt thread.

this won't help sentiment, though i have no idea what was expected ....

JPMorgan hit by fixed income trading slump
JPMorgan Chase launched Wall Street’s earnings season with weaker first-quarter results, hit by a sharp decline in revenues from fixed income trading and mortgages.
The largest US bank by assets reported net income of $5.3bn for the first three months of the year, down 19 per cent from the first quarter of last year. Earnings per share fell to $1.28 from $1.59 a year ago.

Yes its caused the banks to wobble even more.

J.P. Morgan shares fall 2% on earnings miss

Before going to bed this morn went short on ETX platform at 6580.2 with a limit @ 6551.9 And Cap Spreads platform at 6582.5 with a limit at 6510.0.

ETX trade filled + 28.30
Caps trade still running,just moved my stop to6567.5 to lock in +15

Before going to bed this morn went short on ETX platform at 6580.2 with a limit @ 6551.9 And Cap Spreads platform at 6582.5 with a limit at 6510.0.

ETX trade filled + 28.30
Caps trade still running,just moved my stop to6567.5 to lock in +15

Nice one Chris.

How many times did you go to bed? :-)

Well done Chris.

:))

Caps trade
08.03.51

Etx trade
09.01.29 to be pedantic skinny :O)

I might call it a day in favour of The Masters

is it on the box yet?

Don't know, I just noticed that they'd started... Can you believe Donald is 7 over??

Sky sports 4 live 7pm. Got £10 e/w on Rory @ 6/1

I'm just doing the fantasy league, 10 of us in total £100 pot...

ESPN
Live TV coverage of the Par 3 Contest from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET on Wed, April 9, 2014.

Live TV coverage of Tournament play from 3:00 PM to 7:30 PM ET on Thurs, April 10 & Fri, April 11, 2014.

CBS
Live TV coverage of Tournament play from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET on Sat, April 12 and from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM Sun, April 13, 2014.

CBS Sports Network
Live TV coverage of the Masters driving range show, Masters on the Range, starting Mon, April 7 at 12:00 PM and continuing through Tournament week.
http://www.pga.com/masters/scoring/leaderboard

6547.8 small long

I'm done for the day shortie, not betting on it but wouldn't surprise me if FTSE goes as low or lower than 6510 today.