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

Fırst Short for what seems lıke ages today. In clover.

good on you girl .... remember not to get too greedy, says the fathead

Still surprised it's as high as it is ..

I opened a FTSE short this afternoon ,will hold over the weekend see if we get a knock back on Sunday evening .

Jimmy I think they are going to the sky's. Both the Dow and Ftse, anyone would think that their inside information was that Isis has shorted the Dow, so two fingers to them. Honestly you couldn't make it up! :0)

I'm still short FTSE ,nothing going on .

Looks like a belated summer doldrums. September things should become more active when traders are back from holiday. Volumes on many stocks which I follow are very low atm.

Closed FTSE short for 30 pts .

should have let it run as DOW is starting to look very shaky

Maybe ,but i held it over the weekend which costs , however if it tries to breach 6750 again and wobbles i'll have another go .

We can all see 18460 ıs the lıne ın the sand for Dow.

No trades runnıng. Lookıng to short ıf we get a some real news.

i'm out too

missed getting back in DOW (short), but with hindsight, no bad thing as it would have been easy to have got singed as it's currently only -30 after -100

DOW
has broken solidly below 18,470 and is currently testing 18,425
it's had a couple of sniffs but recovered, though not entirely so indication is for further south

Pre Market Apple wıll help out DOW today to the upsıde ıt appears.

DOW
i see it's taken something of an unexpected hit while i've been out since midday
it needs to recover above 18,430 and to stay there after the close if things are not start looking rather unpleasant

both Alphabet and Amazon posted strong results with both shares comfortably ahead after results announced
should augur well for tomorrow, though DOW has yet to reflect this

an interesting comment from IG analyst, though he is very far from being as good as warren firth in days of old .....



Indices pull back following BoJ disappointment. However, given that we have not seen any reversal signals from price action, there is a good chance we will see markets recover before long.

FTSE weakness brings us into Fibonacci support
The FTSE has turned lower this morning, following on from a disappointing Bank of Japan meeting. While price has broken through trendline support, we are yet to break out of this rally, with an hourly close below 6663 required to signal a potential wider sell-off for the index.

U.S. Economy Grew a Less-Than-Forecast 1.2% in Second Quarter

cash DOW not happy, but not impossible that that will reverse as interest rate rise potentially pushed back .... who knows?

have just taken a small DAX short at 10,342 ...... possibly a bit late in the day, but it's looking quite wobbly