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

I wonder what the market thinks of the UK economic future?

"what a shit week this has been.".......a bit emotional Mr C. Only shit if you are the wrong side of a trade surely? Most prices that go up too fast will eventually correct. Just saying!

For uppy-downey slopey lovers, we're at an interesting point right now.

WOW!
complete abdication as DOW collapses 600 points and still going

monday must surely be a total bloodbath

there'll be an awful lot of forced sales and the like, so if you're brave, there could be a good chance to make some money on the bounce as the dust settles

Small long punt on FTSE at 7362

DOW futures negative so far. This afternoon FTSE might follow suit.

DOW
could have done you serious damage today unless you were very nimble and ever more lucky
it was down hugely on the cash this morning; clawed back to break evn and then dived again - now down 250 to 25,250

DOW now down 750 points to 24,750 and still looking to fall

cash DAX down 210

cash FTSE down 100

1000

is it 2008 again

i've never seen he likes of this
DOW down over 1,300 points!

an awful lot of people are going to be wiped out overnight
thank goodness my trading account has been kept small for the last year

US 10 year treasury yield approaching 3%

unreal

unreal

this is totally unbelievable ......
less than a minute ago, DOW was down 1,700 and has recovered to down ONLY 1050

don't even think for a millisecond of trying to trade this!
it could finish absolutely anywhere

madness

I wonder if this is the beginning of the rout that Tim Rice has been predicting for so long?

i thought he collaborated on the rocky horror show, but unfortunately not so :-)

CNBC crew reckon exactly the same happened in Jan/Feb 2016. Obviously the traders had a pretty worrying time, but if investors sat tight then it all came good again.

madness.