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

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

Miners have taken a right slapping.

ED: Confirmation here from Skinny's post http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=5209888

Looking at lists of stocks there are some real quality shares going down ,it's right across the board .

Yep, sooner or later after the shake out some gains to be made on individuals shares, but when? no one knows.

Better to be safe then sorry, so just concentrate on the indices for now.

but very difficult to determine what to do even with indices, as they continue to swing all over the place

in theory, you just trade with a stop, but with spikes in either direction, it's difficult to be logical ..... i think

fwiw, DOW was holding 16,000 without too much difficulty just an hour ago, but now 15,900 is looking to be breached ....... so a rhetorical question ..... do you back continuing fall or bet on a bounce?

in either case, at what level to you enter the fray?

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similar thoughts also occur with regards to FTSE which is now taking a close look at 5,600

No clue cynic ,i went for a bounce earlier and am close to getting stopped out .