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 think Fred got banned for being such a leftist loony .

i certainly haven't been
don't know what's happened to fred either ..... he must have disappeared up his own arse and now can't find the way out :-)

Abdullah al-Badri, is he a Saudia Alf?

libyan it would seem

opec as a group may say one thing, but of course the individual countries continue on their own merry way with their own agenda

however, it is for sure that aramco (saudi) has still got well-development on hold as it has been for the last 3 months

So pinch of salt to be taken.

as with the negotiations in eu re brexit (or not), and indeed in many if not most areas of politics, what is broadcast for general consumption may have little bearing on what is actually happening off stage

The polıtıcs behınd the move to drıve Oil down ıs now hurtıng the protagonısts.

Stock moves I am sure are down to fundamentals other than just Oıl now.

Not helpıng me wıth my long call though

Capital outflow from China seems to be the excuse for the market decline today. The weakening Yuan causing Chinese investors to find stronger currencies. As far as I know this has been happening for some time now, so not sure why today is anything special!

one always rationalises, but i think the chinese investors are just jumping o'board, no doubt encouraged by the market fixers

just shows how difficult these markets are ......
at about 07:30 this morning, cash Dow was down about 110, but for no great reason that i know of, it is now, and quite suddenly +30

I think we see huge fluctuations over next two months. Oil is not going to fall that fast...

Well well that's a pleasant surprise for my long, went out at 9.30 footsie something like -100 come back and nearly evens now.

just to highlight the current volatility
cash Dow went from +30 to flat to +70 in about 15 minutes

FTSE doesn't want to go up with the DOW .

was lucky enough to make 65 points on a very small DOW long about 20 minutes ago albeit that i got out too early in hindsight

Had a FTSE long today and got out at even ,too unpredictable for me right now.
In fact it's all becoming too unpredictable , re my earlier post about the hedge fund throwing the towel in .

Fantastıc move.

added modest FTSE long shortly before the close and that is now very nicely profitable
may also add a bit to a current DOW long which is also now well in the money

Oil flying as well ..

out of index longs for very acceptable profits
AAPL's numbers after hours are likely to have some impact