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

Added @6596.1.

looks quite brave as the market is almost in freefall

maybe...

DAX 9050 closed at 9073.8 for +23.8.. One position from yesterday remaining.

Closed 6596.1 @6628.1 +32

Edited!

quite surprised you closed out, but well done
did you mean the numbers you quoted? .... you can't mean 6528 as ftse never dropped anything like that low

meanwhile, dow is having a tentative attempt at a rally, though whether it will last the day remains to be seen.
mind you, that index has dumped an awful lot and the greed/fear is set at 5 (extreme fear in the extreme!), so perhaps at least a sharp bounce is on the cards ..... even so, we're still a long way short of a key hurdle of 16550

ah well; just recouped a good slab of my dow loss of last night
arguably got out a bit early at 16470, but index was looking to be struggling a little
shall now wait to see what happens as 16500 approaches, as there may be a chance for a quick short trade at that juncture

Small short DOW @ 16475
P.S. Well done Skinny

cynic - now edited - still long from 6610.1.

Thanks Rocky.

Stopped out +11

left a very small dow long running o'night with a limit at 16480 which it was nice to see got hit for +36 ..... a very modest profit in cash terms but better than a similar loss

it's well worth noting that dow has peeked at 16500 several times over the last 24 hours and each time it has retreated

Spot on Cynic, There she goes again!

quite so ..... not exactly worrying, but it would be healthier if 16500 was breached and stayed that way, and more particularly, 16555

what were US jobless figures like?

First 2 resistance points on the DOW 16,498.59 & 16,553.83.

it's certainly struggling badly to jump over that first hurdle

Unemployment claims were better than expected - down 6K @ 289K. Sorry bit late with that cynic, as just got back from 'Home Bargains'

Sorry that should have been down 16K.

long dow again at 16431, but as i'm out this evening, have set the limit at 16485 which is a level that was being hit regularly earlier this afternoon

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