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

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 .

Something cooking I expect.

FTSE closing level has left it teetering .... fingers x'ed it goes north tomorrow for otherwise might be quite a big bang south

Never mind go with flo.

Ford figures were amazingly good, but the sp fell on the logic that future figures from Ford couldn't be any better.
Facebook figures are also amazingly good and the sp is up 13% with no hint of what the future could hold!
Defies logic!!!!!!

the only numbers that must have been dire were e-bay

all curious stuff

I'm pretty sure Amazon & Microsoft are reporting today, so just depends on whether they hit expectations or not.