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

The Italian Referendum is the obvious next potential problem for EU and Markets.

Early next week.

Still holding DOW short

can't be that bad a move

Jimmy, presumably you are paying to roll it over day by day and also gritting your teeth that the margin doesn't get called in?
I don't SB but interested to know how far you can hold on before capitulating.

I can roll over for as long as i like it's not costing too much i only bet small on the DOW.

I'm still running at a loss cynic ,it is however turning my way.

Dow made new high.

FTSE 100 not being dragged along,

for myself, i cannot work out for the life of me in which direction the markets will go
assuredly there is a currently a complete disconnect between european and us markets

perhaps it is apposite that one of the beach staff has just brought along a cold towel for soothing the fevered brow :-)
actually very pleasant indeed today with cloudless blue sky and current temperature around 25/27 degrees at 10:30 ..... i quite expect it to rise a further 5 or so as we get to early afternoon

Where are you Mr C?
-2 deg in Norfolk overnight......in the real world!!! ;o)

dubai ..... one of the biz trips i do twice and sometimes thrice a year

w/e here friday and saturday and it is also UAE National Day holiday which is actually very dull as it takes out Sunday

Manuel,

How do you get your Market stall through customs?

easily as of course it has wheels
customs can get a bit sniffy if i try to bring in fish

StockMarketWire.com
The US unemployment rate declined to 4.6% in November from 4.9%, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics said today.

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for adult men declined to 4.3% in November. The rates for adult women (4.2%), teenagers (15.2%), whites (4.2%), blacks (8.1%), Asians (3.0%), and Hispanics (5.7%) showed little or no change over the month

US total non-farm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in November, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics said today. Employment gains occurred in professional and business services and in health care.

IG's Sunday Markets are sharply down across the board

though not entirely reliable, they are still a good indicator, probably predicting a "no" vote in the italian referendum

no doubt the thught of an imminent rise in rates by the Fed will not please many either

What do you mean Sunday markets , they were down late Friday night just as they are now if you are referring to FTSE DAX DOW.

IG also run tradable positions on a sunday
thus Dax is currently showing as 10,470 mid

Distance from 200DMA for the shorts to possibly target and longs to consider entering for Xmas rally, who knows?

a tasty result o'night when my Dax limit on a small short was hit at 10,368

i note there's been a bit of a recovery since, but it'll be interesting to see how fragile the markets are as we go through the day

Dow just put on 100 points over past few hours!!!!!!!!!

StockMarketWire.com
London equities are seen higher in early deals, following on from positive sessions on Wall St and in Asia as the market continues to focus on Italy's referendum and the just-started Brexit court case.

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FTSE 100 : 6732.79 -14.04 (-0.21%) @08:36:47

hahahahahahahah

i am currently not opening any new positions in stocks
just as a dabble, i am may on occasion run an index position, but everything looks far too unpredictable to me

a sipp of course has a much longer view, but obviously even a number of those stocks don't always perform as hoped