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

DAX
now trickling back towards the 11,700 level, so depending on how weakly DOW opens, it may be worth a modest long

all markets now crumbling/crashing again :-(

A bad month so far

truly awful :-(

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Not to worry chaps we are due a serge in the last couple of days of October.

Isn't that what the 'flat cap & whippet brigade' wear? You must be from 'oop norf' Stan? ;o)

nope - just army uniform

anyway, it takes a very brave or foolish man to play these current markets .... they're truly scary

Italians now got a decision to make.

Stick or twist

So the rumour goes to the first one and for the second, not any more Harry as it's too grim up north.😀

DOW collapsing yet again (-245) so taking all others with it

650 down

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Should be interesting tomorrow then, also ex-divi fallout.

Ex-divi effect on the FTSE is negligible, there are no big hitters today

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not sure why the markets are so chirpy this morning
i know merkel had a very bad result in hesse, but why would that be good for the markets?

Merkel has now announced that she'll stand down as leader of CDU, to which news the markets have surged even further
why?
certainly i did not perceive her as being particularly obstructive (unlike Barnier) to the Brexit negotiations
what have I missed?

DAX
though it's still been a good day for a change, i am not happy to see it now weakening below 11,375


DOW has also fallen back a long way from it's earlier high

Oh dear