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

Europe shares rally on Draghi comments (NBC) comments 55 mins ago.

Draghi speaks

The German DAX and the French CAC were sharply higher on Monday morning, both up over 1 per cent, while theU.K.'s FTSe 100 is closed for a bank holiday.

Investors reacted to words by Draghi who, speaking after markets closed on Friday, expressed confidence that the stimulus already announced and a weaker euro would help the euro zone economy, but noted the ECB was ready to do more if needed.

DAX 10.15 am 9,432.26 + 93 but as we all know cyners tomorrow when it matters to us is another day :0)

but surely draghi's speech was during the time that the dow was still open on friday

from a wider perspective, i can tell you that chemical traffic and general business confidence across the whole m/e region has slumped

No argument from me. It will all end in tears but in the meantime trade what you see not what you think or want to see in my humble opinion :0)

50/50?..trade what you see as usual then.

I'm short FTSE 6822 placed last night, what a dead day, glad I'm not trading

Cable is interesting, as hinted by Hiltops.

This is interesting:

Spectre of 1929 crash looms

Gotta be worth another chart doncha think, Floss?



Summat's gotta give.

Yes, agree. I didn't do anything with it last week, waiting to see what this week brings.

Think we're all waiting and have our trade points.

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Just taken a rather rapid +70 from the DAX.

That's your day's work done then Skinny! Nice one.

Thanks - I guess it was this :-

"Ukrainian president's office - Poroshenko reached agreement with Putin on ‘permanent ceasefire’ in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region"

I wasn't aware that Ukraine and Russia needed a ceasefire, after all hadn't Russia denied any involvement in Ukrainian operations??

6879 short FTSE.

St Leger day coming up. Hopefully new highs on the horizon!

This Scottish referendum hotting up now and getting rather bitter. It won't be forgotten this bile from those twats the Nats. I blame Mel Gibson :0)

In all seriousness I live in Aberdeen and so far people I know my work, golf club and bowling club friends etc are all voting NO! The Scots are not renowned for being canny for no reason.

Well I was speaking to some Scotts at the weekend who are in the Yes camp... I was rather surprised when they suggested that English people wanted Scotland to remain in the UK and that Scotland leaving would hurt England...

From what I've seen in the media its a shame that the Scottish vote on Independence will probably be one of the most uneducated votes of all time...

Shortie - I've had conversations with friends and a typical attitude seems to be "if they want to leave, let them" - worrying.