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

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

Dow edging up to the +2% mark with 15 mins to go, will it hold to the close?

Well I'm not putting money on it -):

Closed out long on DOW last nıght. Now sıttıng on my hands.

Chaps whats the best free live Oil price update site, a non spread-bet type ware I may have to register?

I don't know whether it's the best, but you could take a look at this one Stan:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=FX:USOIL

IG's L2 gives true live prices on all commodities as well as oil

Thanks both will have a look later.