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

Dow futures even's ish if I'm reading it right?

cash DOW now just +18 at 16,170
much earlier, i think it was +80 but in our NL office at the moment actually doing some work for once :-)

I want photographic evidence.. and dated of course.

Going long looks favourite at the mo.

Dow up and fts down.. well there's a novelty.

Short closed, good game this innit.

when i was on the train, i saw that DOW was +90 at about 14:00 or a bit later
anything in particular scare it that it had then dropped to just below 16,000 (= -150)?

have just gone long, probably foolishly, but we'll see

No idea what went on it just seems to move in mysterious ways, I just happen to be getting things right at the mo.. but don't quite know why -):

Maybe this didn't help cynic....

US ISM non-manufacturing disappoints

US ISM non-manufacturing for January comes in at 53.5 vs an expected 55.1, previously 55.8 (revised from 55.3)

not so dumb ...... was limited out for +80 points

shall have a look in due course for another little flutter, though i'm uncertain in which direction

DOW now dithering at 16,130/160
it could go either way, but if there's a dip back to 16,100 and i'm around, shall consider going long once more

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money with mouth!
long at 16,103 not least because i see crude is pretty strong and that ought to help

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and out for +57
:-)

DOW does not now feel healthy, but out for dinner shortly so shall just have voyeuristic experience!

I left a buy order for FTSE at 5800 ,it went as low as 5813 and then bounced ,bugger.

Both Index's certainly move about a bit these days don't they, which is better then not moving at all.

Bıg move yesterday afternoon. Oıl went up and s dıd Dow.

Hopıng for some more today.

Back down :(

Rollercoaster :)

There goes the DOW and oil !

What a weird day the ups and downs of the DOW and Oil ..

Boom!