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

NEWS

FTSE down as profiteers hit miners; STAN shocks----What's he done now?
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Don't say Stan's upset the markets as well !!

Been out so nothing to do with me chaps, but if me going out does move the market I'm happy to oblige.. for a very large fee of course.

By the way 76 posts on the Tory Muppet thread I notice.. so what are you lot griping about now?

Dow, Oil and £ futures all level'ish if I have it right.

i was out and easily missed DOW crashing through support levels at ~16,560 and ~16,510
next stop is 16,400 followed by 16,275

currently 16,450

My FT short came good at last at just gone 4.. to my relief I may add.

further south to go yet i reckon, though maybe not tomorrow ..... hard to know

Another down start this morning by the looks for the FT100.

:-))
started the day well :-))

I have not touched indices this week ,is this a small wobble or are we going back to 5500 with the FTSE .

FTSE seems disinclined to head back above 5,900 at the moment, though it's early days

DOW continues firmly south ......
prob slightly unsettled by what's going on in Europe, and perhaps even more unsettled by that maniac Trump's success in the nominations

DOW
currently sitting on a supposed support at 16,275
arguably worth a quick long provided you can be glued to the screen

DOW
strewth! ...... missed a good shorting chance there; contemplated at ~16,260 but got sidetracked in composing an e- ...... currently 16,205

Down to start and to finish, another profitable day.

Oil doesn't want to go down further

just did one small trade on Dow this morning and banked profit on CEY very late ..... perfectly happy with that

short DOW 16,270
there was meant to a support at 16,275 on the way down but that didn't hold for long

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that's unkind; DOW continuing its burst for glory (now 16,300)
short may it last :-)

FTSE/DAX/CAC all rebound strongly after the bell .

What you doing on this thread Alf I thought you and JB were off to end it all?

Not yet Stan , there's hope .