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

G thanks Hils :-)

Still toying with 6,800.

Boom Wall St has flown. Fingers crossed it crashes.

i'll def second that!

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doesn't look like a crash to me harry......any burnt fingers??

which way wall street today?
place your bets please

I think we're all sat on a few unrealised losses waiting for these two to move off historic highs. For me I've been fortunate recently with a few short plays, high stakes over a few points, realised profits that off set the potential losses I'm holding.

i think i'll just hide under the pillow for now :-(

Numbers in 5 minutes but the market awaits 1:30pm.

What a con - Cold Play tickets went on sale at 9:30 - impossible to access the ticket site!

Think yourself lucky skinny , i'd pay not to see them .

My son asked me to get them.

I still can't even get on to the ticket site, yet a couple are already on viagogo - look
at the price!

Madness , i'd want girls aloud to stay the night for that much , all of them .

They've sold out - I never even managed to get on the site - no con at all!!

Grab a bargain :-

Leave it a week or two and then try:
http://www.getmein.com/

I'm sure there are other reputable sites which sell on tickets for people who find that they can't go.

9980 large short opened on the DAX

who's got the us employment numbers?
whatever they were, there seems to be no significant impact on the market(s)

CAD Employment Change 25.8K 24.5K -28.9K

CAD Unemployment Rate 7.0% 6.9% 6.9%

CAD Labor Productivity q/q -0.1% 0.7% 1.0%

USD Non-Farm Employment Change 217K 214K 288K

USD Unemployment Rate 6.3% 6.4% 6.3%

USD Average Hourly Earnings m/m 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%