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

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

Yup that'll do Harry.

Dow turning my way at last.

Ed: I meant the footsie.

Would seem all US indices turning towards the red zone.

indeed .... i've made a couple of very quick turns on DOW but now just sitting and watching

the only good thing about FTSE is that it is holding above 5900 - just