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

I believe its the worst opening week ever in US. Beats all the other bad times over past century. Says it all. When you step back and look at the bigger picture. It could get a lot lot worse over next two years. Just my opinion. Personally up 100% since xmas. Although i get greater pleasure from going long than seeing this mess materialise. Its going to spread into job losses and then the real pain unfolds into everyday economy.

Hope the all of you have made a bit this week.

unfortunately i did not follow what i preached (predicted) .... hey ho

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My best ever Christmas and New year start, some more to come I hope.

i wonder what tomorrow will bring, especially if china shows no sign of recovery - quite likely i reckon

Nothing but bad news just about everywhere so down further in the next couple of weeks (unless there is some unexpected reasons why not) then a bounce towards the end of the month at a guess.

squeaky bum time!!!!!!!!!!!

Not looking like a decent bounce today , have to wait and see what the DOW brings.

cash DOW is suddenly up 90 points at 16,440

Yes FTSE doesn't seem to want to follow .

i see china was down heavily again last night - down 5.33%

Where is the best place to get free real time Dow futures chaps? bearing in mind I don't subscribe to SPs or CFD accounts.

Stan try IG INDEX .

Thanks James.

Or this http://money.cnn.com/data/premarket/?iid=H_MKT_QL

I used to use Bloomberg but their futures screen isn't that great any more.

Thanks Harry, is it definitely live?

Apologies, looks to be 10 mins delayed.

This looks to be better:
http://uk.investing.com/commodities/real-time-futures

DOW is to the right of screen.

Thanks again, but is it the Dow and not the S&P?

Hmmmm............

http://uk.investing.com/indices/us-30-futures

About the best I can find and live.

And still the DOW can't drag the FTSE with it