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 100. Not looking good at all.

gosh .... no one been here for a few days ..... shell shock?
anyway, dow looking moderately perky, but having fallen off its daily highs (again), it really could do with finding some northerly impetus

I still have a FTSE long that is slightly down but i'm staying put for now .Big rebound some where down the road .

Off the cliff face!

Relentless ,all week and it looks like we are going to finish that way .

it's been a vile end to the year
the only very small glimmer lies with dow which is managing to hold above 17,500 though there was a scare a couple fop days back

and another sudden and, as far as i know, inexplicable collapse

Oil has a lot to with it ..

Slippery slope!

Market makers shaking ftse down before US CPI next Wed 15th and todays PPI
http://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/cpi.htm

http://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/ppi.htm

Expect markets to spike north from Tuesday 14th, all the way into Jan {ftse 6600-6700}

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Tuesday 14th??????
what a magic day and date ...... especially as Monday is 14th!

5,985 and 17,325 the next alleged supports

Relentless !!!! is it world war three ????

i'm still hurting but not as awful as it might have been as i banked profits on AFC, WOS and BDEV about a week ago ..... thought i might have been premature, but today says most definitely not

Tuesday 14th??????

Sorry, 15th

PPI @ 13.30 Today!

wednesday 16th may be the more telling as that is when rate rise news is expected
a case of damned if JY does or if she doesn't
on balance, a rate rise would probably be preferable, given the clobbering the markets have already taken

whatever the PPI numbers, they look to have been met with indifference

And still the markets fall CAC DAX DOW ,Oil ,i think the only one on my list that's up is Copper