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

shortie.......your mates back,D000000 or what. Lets have a few of us getting together on a thread and complaining direct to management.

You Cynic-------pussy ........aswel

sticky - your comment not understood; please clarify

By Telegraph Video, video source ITN5:13PM BST 12 Oct 2014
A Texas health care worker who provided hospital care for an Ebola patient who later died has tested positive for the virus, US officials said on Sunday.
Dallas County Judge, Clay Jenkins, said in a televised statement that the health worker had asked not to be named and for their family's privacy to be respected.
Health officials said the worker was in full protective gear when they provided care to Thomas Eric Duncan during his second visit to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Mr Duncan died on Wednesday in Dallas.
Health officials said the health care worker reported a fever on Friday night as part of a self-monitoring regimen required by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control.
If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the US.

"Markets are closed today in the US and Japan due to bank holidays."

And Canada.

Some of these shares prices now are just plain silly !.....never seen such a crap market in my life !...

The powers that be have a free hand today to walk shares down - with the holidays & lack of any major economic news scheduled - having said that, the FTSE is nearly +100 from its overnight lows.

Lets hope just one person doesn't walk through Heathrow sneezing or it will be Armageddon .

What!!! You saying the market is fixed skinny? SHURRELY NOT :0)

Yes sorry - I don't want to start malicious rumours! :-)

:0)

the action in today's markets is why it is almost as scary to have stops as it is to have none

Dax long position starting to look nice..

HARRY the US market is not closed today ??

So I see Jimmy. It was reported as being closed today by MoneyAM morning report. Very strange.
Next closure is Nov 27th.

Have a look here.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock markets are open for trade on Monday, but bond markets are closed for the Columbus Day holiday. Trading in energy and metals futures is also business as usual. The next holiday for U.S. stock markets is Thanksgiving on Nov. 27. On Monday, however, Canadian stocks were closed for trade in observance of the local Thanksgiving Day. Japanese markets were also closed for a holiday.

Ok thanks.

markets just getting f*** stupid
managed to squeeze out a small dow long profit earlier, but suddenly it's down about 140

I'll put an extra letter in to that for you fu..... stupid
Irrational markets , i'm rearranging my trading head for shorting in future .

However at what point comes the huge bounce