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

Thanks Harry corrected now.

Massive turnaround.

Hopefully continued tomorrow as it's also ex divi eve.

DAX
banked a respectable profit on half before bedtime ...... other 50% still showing a modest loss, but would expect that to recover sufficiently too

Steady as she goes as far as the oil/refineries situation in gun nutter land is concerned. Lots of ex-divis tomorrow but not sure how much it's worth off the index.

DAX
closed last open long at 12,179
i had hoped for 12,195 but index fell off just before that limit was hit
as 12,200 has faild yet again, am tempted to short as next move

DAX
interesting to note that yet again 12,200 has proved too great a hurdle, though there was a feeble effort at breaching it early in the day

US sell off today.

quite sudden - and dragging cash DAX with it - and no newsflash either
perhaps just computer-triggered?

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Dow and FTSE going in opposite directions.

Another up day I feel.

US Markets had some good volatility this evening.

Dow Short 22405 just before close.

good morning all ...... now in portugal
DAX indicating a weak opening, rather as i thought it would :-)

Beautiful country and most of it still unspoilt by tourism. Shame the language is so difficult to get to grips with.

hate the algarve, so have started comning to cascais (near lisbon), where the prices are comparatively reasonable, the people charming and the food damn good