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

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Moved down a tad more. Now looking at Dow.

Anyone thinking of going long on the FTSE ??????

If it tanks when the DOW opens i'm tempted .

17,230 and 6,090 (if you're lucky) are the next stops

did you see the news clip of the guy falling 1600' down a mountain?
he got out almost unscathed

No i didn't ....I'm tempted by the FTSE but don't want to hold over the weekend . Had a bad run this week ..

Out of FTSE 100 Short.

Got Dow short running.

Will cut if we get a bounce before close.

For a change I held onto a winning position.

No Caribbean though for Christmas

welcome to the clan!

FTSE
it has actually made a small bounce off ~7095, but it would take a brave chap to have started trading it

DOW
looking scary yet again, with the excuse of weaker than hoped retail sales .... yesterday it allegedly the oil price

claret - thanks for the spelling correction!

common sense says that dow ought to bounce and perhaps significantly before the close, but common sense and logic are currently in short supply

currently, 17,290/300 is proving a modest floor to dow ...... whether or not that proves to be the case is in the lap of the gods

well i'm good for predicting for everyone else, as i see DOW is currently down only 60 after 160
whether that holds, or even that strong bounce into blue is on the cards, i certainly have no idea

shame i don't take my own advice - eg i said here or on advfn a couple of weeks back that i could see nothing good on the world economic scene

Dow giving up lots of chances to win and lose very quickly.

Interesting FTSE / DOW Monday .

when dow closed, markets took up defensive positions so
cash DOW currently showing 17,195
cash FTSE currently showing 6,080

as far as i can tell,
cash DAX is currently 10,650

IG run a sunday book though not for DAX
it seems little used, but it'll be interesting to see if that indicates any further (significant) move in either direction

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as no money involved, other than through any position you may running, how would you call monday from the above levels?

gut instinct is that there'll be at least an initial crash, but that could be short lived as i don't think the paris outrage has any real significance to world trade and economics

ftse down 4.2% this week, and with no major financial affecting news!!

pat - the markets were happy to be unnerved by the continuing gloom from china and some pretty soggy figures re oil and retail from usa

cynic we surely will have a large bounce at some point ,i'm going to go long and hold my nerve . Got stopped out on Friday .

good job you were
Sunday IG showing FTSE down a further 70, DOW 85 and DAX 135

Monday may be double that

IG Sunday ftse down 50-60 pts @10.40

amended as of now, and seems to have stabilised at the following levels
Sunday IG showing FTSE down a further 60, DOW 115 and DAX 150

CAC40 probably get the worst fall

now 65,125,175 respectively

however, as jimmy said yesterday (i think), the fall will be overdone and a sizeable bounce - perhaps short-lived - will occur
timing will be everything, as always