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

But you are a short term trader!

on indices i'm nowhere near brave enough or so damn foolish as to hold a position long(er) term

from IG analyst
The big question is whether OPEC and other oil producers can continue to handle prices at these levels. There have been calls from Russia and Venezuela in recent weeks for OPEC and non-OPEC producers to meet and agree on cutting production. This week Algeria also backed Venezuela’s call for the meeting. Despite the marked drop in US shale oil production, global oil supplies have remained stubbornly high. But now that OPEC nations have been steadily regaining global market share, they may be more inclined to start to trim back their production. The big unknown is how much pain they need to inflict on US shale oil producers before they cut back, but moves on this front could certainly see some upside in the oil price

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at the moment and from first-hand knowledge, companies across the whole gulf region are being crucified with both exports and imports and even production at some chemical plants coming to an effective standstill

across the world, storage depots are as rammed as we have ever seen them with idle containers of all types

for some obscure reason, stock markets remain almost oblivious ....... scary

Mild weather isn't helping consumption either. All the gas producers are getting crucified.

Quite nice weather here in Hampstead :~)

what's poked wall street up the arse that it's suddenly perked up?

Iv'e been in and out of FTSE all day made about 12 trades for small points .

Mr C, Apple due to report this afternoon I think. Expectations are high. Twitter also reporting.
Though T-Mobile US should have knocked things back a bit. Depends how you see their Q3 results.

the following adds fuel to the fire of concern across the world .......

firstly, BP foresees depressed crude prices into 2017

now read the following ....
http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/fred-olsen-breaks-off-bollsta-dolphin-construction-contract/
i am glad i no longer hold LAM

Manuel,

But UK's problems are down to this tory government's economic policies, not the state of world economics.

As I have been told 2008-2010 and every week since then by the con party, UK's are insulated from World Affairs.

I believe in the Conners!

And, of course being outside the EU will make it easier for the UK to trade out of debt.

What is the trading deficit at the moment?








ummmmh!

for goodness sake why can't you just bang your monotonous political drum on the TALK thread only?
your pollution spreading to this thread is tiresome in the extreme

You twit.

You are hammering on about the market.

Look at the causes and probable outcome!

Fred keep it to the talk thread ,please don't come over and ruin trading threads . Thanks .

funny thing, but fred chooses to think that i'm talking about uk economy to which he can then attach some political nonsense...... by golly he's a bore

i know AAPL beat forecasts, as did Twitter, but don't know by how much ..... however, sp up about 2.25% and DOW pretty strong too

Still got a FTSE long so Dow finishing well tonight may have helped .

6,380 and 17,578 are apparently the key levels to watch

Had one FTSE long this morning ,still got one running from yesterday that's down a few points .

FED interest rate decision later today.
Twitter is forecast to open down 11%.

FED decision is @ 6PM UK time / 2pm US time, as they have not changed from summer time.