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

well that was a wrong call, and yet again am amazed, but such are the markets

GOLD stocks look to be in for another battering in the morning, but base metal miners (BLT, AAL etc) may well have a different hue

Morning

Missed the fireworks since Monday. No trades.

it's very interesting how the markets have diverged
FTSE is in a strong downtrend
DAX is fairly neutral
DOW continues to forge north or at least to be in a pretty robust upward trend

nevertheless, we all know from experience how ephemeral these trends can be, everything being reversed due to some seemingly innocuous or unimportant occurrence

Its certainly been interesting.

New High on Dow yesterday.

Went short DOW last night ...

fingers x'ed .... i know the feeling

Out for 15 pts and been long on FTSE for a few .

Have been trading tight ranges Long and short all week. In a holding pattern.

Seems to have been easy this week ,tight ranges was the key i think. Small gains but no losses.

FTSE mixed as miners, oilies drag blue chips south

FTSE 100 UP 15 points

keep up at the back there!

Going down now though .

and then zipped straight back up again :-)

New highs on all four Indices in US. First time since 1999

UK below 1999 High :(

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Still going up in US

News
FTSE seen cautious ahead of Autumn Statement
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UP 50 PTS

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