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

US Markets taken off early doors.

Dow 200 up, then 200 down. If only everyday ran like this.

i'm 3 hours ahead of uk here, and though i saw Dow had collapsed, i didn't realise it had been minus 200 at one point

i have no idea why ...... fear of rising interest sates perhaps?

anyway, i'm glad i'm hedged with shorts on both Dow and Dax

Mr T set off overnight dump.

Should be interesting today.. slightly o/t but what's happening with Bilic lately CD?

i've been out all day, but from the odd glance, it looks that there has been considerable yo-yoing
i think i saw that DOW had been up quite a lot but is now down nearly 40

is there any actual reason or is it just early april manoeuvring?

No idea what direction will be this week heading into Easter.

United Airlines UAL could be an interesting one in US Today.

So could any supplier to Apple. Seems they are trying to take more control over their supply chain. Dialog badly hit today....along with Imagination last week.

DOW + DAX
have taken new short positions in both - 20,554 and 12,089 respectively

got my call wrong, at least for now .... hey ho :-)

DOW + DAX
what volatile markets these are
if you have the rhythm and the time and inclination to concentrate, there's assuredly a lot of money to be made

meanwhile, my shorts from yesterday are now looking far less sickly

strong day (monday) on wall street, so logic says DAX should follow suit in the morning
have therefore (bravely) just opened a long at 12,130 while leaving my short position open

Not sure what the PM is going to say, but markets might move against you if it is hugely important.

closed Dow long first thing this morning for a modest profit, but left Dax long to run, for most of it is counter-balanced by an existing short

small DOW long just opened at 20,537 as 20,500 looks to be holding well ....... no doubt it will prove to be a mug's punt :-)

I will send you a spoon.

8-)

only just logged on to see your latest ..... you're too kind :-)

actually, it's now not far out of the money, though i guess the timing could have been better yesterday