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

that as may be, but the economy is adding significant numbers of jobs, and companies don't do that for a laugh
also, the more in work, the more disposable income so the greater consumption

Can they buy other currencies?
Anyway, US consumption is increasing which improves sales inside US and import.
Earlier China reported care sale increase by over 11%, not bad!!! It is certainly a good sign, possible stabilization over there

Agreed.........but anything (exported) or valued in $ becomes more expensive (commodities, minerals, services, products) so retail prices will therefore need to follow.

Just goes to show how one person's loss is another person's gain.

back to front and don't fprget we're talking about usa ...... imported stuff is cheaper ..... ergo, retail no more expensive and margins quite possibly improve

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out again for now at least .... had hoped for another 10 points or so, but it's gone a bit sticky
shall now await the opening reaction

Currently -26 DOW Fut? Strange it's in neg territory.

(According to Blackrock the US export market is only 3% of GDP, which seems incredibly low.)

real time shows dow at 17,894 +20 from last night's close

Dow struggling to break 17,900 once more, though that is relatively unimportant ..... 17,800 is the key downwards

FTSE struggling to break back north of 6400 which is more of a worry

bugger ..... got distracted by work :-( ..... and missed getting back into dow at 17,800 or less .... never mind

"bugger ..... got distracted by work :-(".. Pull the other one.

I would imagine, being buggered is distracting!

singularly so :-)
anyway, have just placed a small long DOW at 17,806.5 ......i'll put a limit in case i'm not watching as it's been up and down like a yoyo today

Nothing would surprise me living on the embankment.

He is just boasting again!

with no buggery, there would be an empty hole in my life :-))

Couple of successful trades on the CAC today .

As yet the FTSE doesn't want to get dragged along with the DOW

DOW
just opened a small long at 17780 ...... fingers x'ed but am in front of the screen

both ftse and dow being very rude indeed :-(
never mind; i'll just sit tight

May see a bounce tomorrow .

i don't think it's any more than a correction .... after all, we've had a pretty decent run of late

Still holding mY short position from start of month on both FTSE and DOW.