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

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

Yes cynic but now looking at the scale of what happened in France and the fact that they are bombing the crap out of Syria i think i'll hold fire for now .
I have been long CAC and did ok ,glad i'm not holding that one over the weekend .

early indications are that markets are opening much better than feared yesterday

CAC might be closed today. French president declares 3 days of national mourning.

Good point pat .

17,230 and 6,090 are the important resistance/support levels

both were wiped out late friday and on the sunday indicators, but both dow and ftse are now challenging these northwards ..... but it's very early still

Well the CAC is open as usual and it's not mayhem but i'll sit tight for the moment .

Surprising markets this morning ..

as so often markets do nothing like what is expected of them :-)

Yes up and down this morning ,i think i'll pass for now .

massive about-turn with DOW now +150 at 17,385
if this level holds through the close - or at least above 17,300 - then it's tempting to think that there could be a further surge north

qui sait?

Cut all my positions last Friday before the terrible events.

Not holding any positions currently.

Now in the "Don't know which way to trade camp"

I suspect that camp is getting a bit crowded CD.