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

Dow down 3+%.

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Another jolly day for us tomorrow then!

No sign of Christmas Rally after Mondays false dawn.

seems DOW was down nearly 800

cash indicators are vile once again, the markets being upset (apparently)by the arrest of this Huawei woman ..... surely not another implication that the chinese are eager to infiltrate western data on all levels?



meanwhile, the real labour leader says .....
Unite leader warns Labour against backing second referendum

Where is Santa?

best crumb i can offer is that DUP will back gov't in a vote of no confidence

Santa better get his sleigh up Wall Street asap.

Alf showing paranoid tendencies again!

Looking like Santa doesn’t exist CD ):-

Yes Stan.

My faith in him is waining.

He wont be coming down the chimney at this rate.

Non-farm payrolls today at 13:30 (GMT)
Expected +198,000 jobs in November vs +250,000 in October

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US wage growth held steady in November even as hiring slowed sharply, offering evidence that the labour market remains robust enough to justify at least one more increase in short-term interest rates by the Federal Reserve later this month.

Year-on-year wage growth was unchanged at 3.1 per cent, the quickest pace since April 2009, according to data released on Friday by the labour department. The world’s biggest developed economy added 155,000 jobs in November, compared to the 250,000 increase recorded in October and well below economists’ forecasts of 198,000.

1 trillion dollars gone on US Markets this week.

Fingers crossed for next week

yet another shit day in the making
just be thankful that no one here (i think) has ever played with bitcoins and other joke cryptocurrencies

I've got a couple of bob in BLU, does that count?

what on earth is BLU?

meantime, Dow has dumped a further 450 and £/$ is now 1.253

An emerging leader in digital nanopayments.

If you want more info (which I doubt) look them up.

FWIW I have got no inkling what this market is going to next as there are too many balls up in the air...
So put a fair bit into Rangold Resources this morning as gold miners should be less susceptible to downturns to the current worldwide uncertainties

Good move to have some exposure to gold, re the markets it can't be a surprise that they are falling surely.

Always thought "Nano" was a Mexican takeaway-but what do I know

You can't do much with BLU atm as they are suspended, until the end of this month, so we are told.