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

You can say that again.

No trades yesterday. FOMC day normally get a lot of movement whıch ıs fıne ıs your goıng ın the correct dırectıon. Wıll ıt go lower stıll from here.

What again? Dow's up the ft's down, the Dow's down and the ft's down.. what happened to form then? -):

Up a nadge on the open and enough to trip my long out with a bit up at last.

DOW
what i said turned out to be on the button, and certainly and perhaps just for now, cash is rocketing away (now +130)
nevertheless, i wanted to sleep last night(!) and though i could have bought in just after 07:00 when indication was only +29, that too would have been pretty foolhardy, even if correct

Just watching this one http://uk.investing.com/commodities/real-time-futures

Clarification needed chaps, is it the Brent or the US one that makes a difference over here and that I should be paying attention to?

Ed: Oil price I mean.

WTI has more international influence, though i think saudi checks against Brent :-)

as WTI is the lower priced, it is probably better to watch that one with a view to the $30 level

Thanks.

Amazon & Microsoft figures to come this afternoon......for you guys trading the DOW.

i wonder what's spooked DOW as it's now in negative territory and FTSE down nearly 50

haven't been around to trade, but jimmy and others could (must) have been having a field day

Not me ,too erratic .

slightly puzzled by FTSE dilatory performance, especially with crude on the up
am inclined to go long

any thoughts jimmy?

So am i ,oil was flying and FTSE/DOW going down , got stopped out of a FTSE long ..

it really is very odd
ok, so DOW has slipped back a lot - no idea why - but FTSE is now -20 with crude flying

perhaps look to buy ~5935, to where i am amazed to see it has now slipped

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gone long at 5921

bit like last night, all looks too silly

Yes really strange ..And still falling ..

I shall join you ,just waiting to see how far it falls before close .

this is starting to look very uncomfortable on both sides of the pond and i cannot think why on earth everything should have slammed into reverse

FTSE
5875 is alleged to be the next support

How odd ,must be some reason ,although at the moment it seems to be what not happened or what might have happened or what didn't happen that makes markets react .