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

it's all a bit fingers x'ed in the present climate, but even if wrong call initially, there's a good chance that it will come right in due course, and quite possibly during the course of the day

I will leave you chaps at the coal face as I have an anniversary to celebrate with my beloved.

If it's yours Stan,congrats.

all very gruesome at the moment
it didn't surprise that the markets headed south, but i certainly didn't expect this level of collapse

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who'da thought it!
now it's very very silly indeed ...... down 180 and 380 respectively

WERE GONNA CRASH! WERE GONNA CRASH! WERE GONNA CRASH!!!! LOL!!!!

Not too healthy.

Thanks BB, how you doing?

not so well as you stan :))

Schoolboy error.

Got fılled on FTSE 100 LONG set up 3 weeks ago.

One I forgot to close.

What a dummy.

You never know Claret it might just work out for you ,maybe a bounce today.

it wouldn't surprise me at all .... in fact, DOW was all over the place last night, recovering nearly 200 points (i think) from its low

We need someone to "kıss ıt better soon" !!!!!!!!!!!!

however, and to repeat yet again, beware the onrushing referendum

That will cause mayhem ,or will it ?

yes jimmy it will indeed ..... you know hows markets HATE uncertainty, and to my mind, this is even more important and scary than the greek episode


meanwhile TODAY
the market (inc cash dow) is zipping around like crazy, almost certainly with no great logic
however, it may be deemed quite important that DOW has now broken north of 16,000 once more and is just about holding

Same with the FTSE trying to stay above 5700 but i'm not convinced .

More pain .

We can't blame oil this week either.

maybe just computer trading ...... i really have no idea, as cash dow is now down 85 and i think earlier this morning it was up perhaps 35