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

reverting back to my "silly" .....

guessed the first part of my question wrong as i though DOW would be lower than 15,690 (it's 15,740) at 14:35

so let's have a stab at the other 2 .....
16:35 = 15,700 .............. ACTUAL - 15,640
21:00 = 15,850

DOW now 15,550 (down 460)

To counter that Mr C, the CEO of Moeller Maersk at Davros was pretty upbeat about the potential for very swift expansion of container ships and traffic in Iran, now that sanctions have lifted. It is just an example of one door closing and another opening.
Officially a bear market in Japan now........Lots of analysts at Bloomberg very negative, but most of the CEO's interviewed at Davros seem to believe that this is a market correction rather than a sustained downturn. Aberdeen Asset Management are hoovering up equities as they see this as a buying opportunity.
I just wish I knew who was right!!!

my c+p above was from Maersk
Iran is certainly very interesting, but still very difficult and financially dangerous to deal with

Looks lıke Dow beıng drawn lıke a Magnet to the low of last Summer. Mıght even make ıt today!!!!!!!!!

now just below 15,500 (down 530)

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and while writing the above, it's now close to 15,450

i'ld be happy to see DOW close down ONLY 250 tonight, but looks foinavon odds on that!

This is becoming a knock on effect .

Maybe worth a long with it being down 550 .

are you going to put your money there?

one might have said similar almost throughout the day, but there is no indication of any wish to recover ...... but there might be some sharp bear closing in the final hour, though i don't think there was yesterday

Janet Yellen rate rıse has gone down well ın just 1 month. Soon to be reversed.

It's still going down ,mad .

i'll take that as a no then :-)

I have at 15462 ,with my finger on the trigger ,i'm nursing a loss on my FTSE long ,not pretty .

Come to Daddy ,this could be the quickest 100 points ever.

That's me out my limit was hit 15562 . 100 points

Wish i'd left that running until close ..

i must own up to a couple of small dabbles on DOW last night, and am thankful that i took my very nice profits when i did .... at least they helped ameliorate some of the hammering i have taken in recent weeks

the DOW's performance was extraordinary with some thing like a 350 point recovery in a very short time (foinavon won at a canter!) ...... but at least 100 points of that was lost in the last 30

the 10-minute chart will be much more precise

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today will be another one for watchfulness with china continuing south - are we now becoming slightly immune to that? - as i certainly don't trust any recovery, let alone foresee it being sustained for long

lower highs and lower lows continue

ECB interest rate decision today at 13.30 hrs......expectations are dismal!

both dow and ftse quickly collapsing ..... not a huge surprise i'm afraid