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

Where next with oil ? never thought we would see it in the 20's .

If DOW falls again to around -400 i'll go long ,if not then i hope it bounces for you cynic.

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$10 oil dc are you stark raving bonkers ???

I can see no end to the retreat unless a couple or 3 of Countries stop pumping or cut back substantially.

Yes I think he probably is James -):

Thought that would get a reaction. :-)) Get out in your car and use a bit more. We will have to buy gas guzzlers. lol

Maybe we can end up like Venezuela 1p per gallon .

If you two have the same judgement on here as for the ftse comp, I rest my case. :-))

Petrol and diesel are not falling much in this neck of the woods. Shell still 104/105p ltr for diesel.

If it gets much cheaper i'm going to buy this ...

thanks jimmy, but as i've already banked half for a decent number of points (not big enough to say decent profit!), i'm quite well covered against disaster

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and in those 3/4 minutes DOW has dumped yet again
now down 415 points, so you can put money with mouth :-)

I did and sold out within seconds for another 17 points .
I think i'll get caught out if i'm not careful here ,still running a FTSE long that's way down because i didn't use a stop .

Yes dc......Shell certainly slow to move their price. 104/107 in Norfolk. Tesco petrol/diesel sub 100p.

Yes Tesco are cheaper Harry. My view only, I always think they buy up the dregs. I compare their fuel to the likes of the old Jet filling stations.

I'm in again 15885
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and still falling ...... now down 500 points
this really is insane

FTSE after close now down another 54 points , DOW still going and oil down another 200 points ,mad !!
I shall probably get stopped out of this last one .

At some point we will have one hell of a bounce ..

Not much to be positive about. I expect the markets price action will drop into the economy soon with job losses. Then the real damage will start. Hope I am wrong

i had another DOW long at 16913 and got out of that +60 and even my 1st escapade at 17,044 may turn out ok too

nevertheless, all very scary indeed

closed last position for -43, but overall a again of about 70 points on the 3 positions, so not bad i guess .... little money involved, but good for confidence and morale