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

Leyton High Rd. eh? As he only gets a 3 hour lunch break that should be just the job.

Some 'interesting' ones when you start to look -

The menu actually looks quite good..

6435 position closed.

sod's law .... should have closed long dow and left ftse short running ..... hey ho

I should have left the short also but had to pop out.

complete bloodbath at the moment, probably and primarily on the back of JP Morgan's further $1bn set-aside for fines

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DOW
should have support at around 17340 or perhaps as low as 17300

however, on yesterday's and indeed today's performances, neither supports nor resistances have had much meaning

i have bravely or foolishly (shall let you know!) opened another small Dow long at 17373.4

I hope you are right!

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for once fred, you are not alone :-)

6379 long

a brightish start (comparative of course) on wall street, though i missed the even stronger first 5 minutes as was grabbing some dinner shopping

6391 position closed

+83.8 on the day now, short stack still, so got to be extra careful.

6406.5 gone long

closed 2nd dow short at 17444.1 for a nice 70 point gain
now need dow to pick up strongly again

6411 closed, mixed signals

i wonder if you'ld find it helpful to keep a Dow screen with say 10 minute chart as ftse and dow generally have some correlation

small dow long again at 17403.4 ...... should be support at this 17400 level, though assuredly doesn't follow in these markets

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and closed 17443.6

blimey; sure have to concentrate in these markets