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

Everything gone very quiet!! Presumably all settled down to watch Andy kick some butt?!!!.....We hope!

andy who?

He is that Sweaty British Tennis player.

oh that geezer ..... he may be a good player, but by golly he's boring

Well he's not trying to talk his opponent to death, so for the moment being good at tennis is all that matters!

Made a brilliant comeback but i think going off and coming back tomorrow favours Djokovic .

Hoping for a bit of a turn around this week.

Another day in the red.

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Not sure all the sell off can layed at the feet of the Greek Gods.

What is the problem then?

Sell in May :))

someone must have done well shorting this lot.,.

General instability of ME, Ukraine, Chinese slow down. Greece, Italy, ?Spain.

Also general media awareness. Etc.

But it is a -=-=-=-=-= market.

A decent day. Short squeeze or a reversal?

No idea :)

SSSSSSSH!

Maybe the Greek urn is not broken, just a little cracked.

wow!
was just contemplating a small dow long at about 17,950, did soemthing else for 5 minutes, and sudden;y it's bolted another 125 points

have i missed something?
greece perhaps?

What's a Greek urn? ;)

Last night I cursing my stupidity for holding 4 different SBs.

All red.

This am. even worse.

Looked back at the charts to the time of my earlier moments my genius.

Nobody in their right mind would have bought the longs I did, when I did.

I am glad to-day somebody found the green spray can.

There is a disparity between techs and fundamentals.

Not a very pleasant few days.

It is a B awful market!

Good luck.

how interesting
the umbilical cord with greece has apparently been cut - latest flash from FT - but the markets have ignored it completely ..... at least for now

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Greece’s bailout creditors signal negotiations over aid at an end
Greece’s creditors on Thursday issued their starkest warnings to Athens since the start of a five-month stand-off over the country’s soon-to-expire €172bn bailout, with the International Monetary Fund withdrawing its negotiating team and European leaders saying the time for compromise had ended.
The pointed language in public reflected growing private fears that Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, had overestimated the amount of time he has left to cut a deal to release the bailout’s final €7.2bn aid tranche for his cash-scrapped government.