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

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

dow closing down about 220 at about 13325
ftse cash down 50

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Yes Claret they did look a little overcooked and could come off but not Armageddon !!

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