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

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.

if yellen reversed us recent rate rise, wouldn't that knock the markets even more?
just an idle question on a hypothesis from nowhere

Good question unfortunately I don't have a good answer, Dow up over night, Nikkei up and what do we do.. go sideways.

Markets unfathomable at the mo so watch and wait for a signal is my stance.

Strange action today DOW opens down over 100 pts and FTSE is slightly up.

Yeah unusual but what's Oil doing today James?

Nothing much at the moment Stan ,around evens although can change rapidly .

Thanks James, stand by your beds then for a while.

DOW
almost certainly upset by AAPL's dismal results, but not happy to see a blip below 16,000
fingers x'ed that is but temprary

DOW
what a very interesting session here today
having been down as much as 175, it is now down just 55 and slowly ticking north
it would be very jolly if 16,200 was broken before close ..... it's still a litte way off (16,115), but far from impossible

All catching fire now took a small DOW long earlier

let's hope there's no tears before bedtime

I'm out for 50 points ..