The market seems to be selling-off on the back of limited bad news imo, apart from the dollar that is.

If you can hold your nerve and apart from any short term requirements to offload poor performing stocks, I have a couple!!, my advice would be sit tight. This does not have the feel of the tech(mining!) bubble at all. Difference being there are a lot of good fundamentals, unlike in 2000 when there were a lot of over rated nothing companies.

As long as dow is positive,does that just not matter to give comfort for our minds for a positive again tomorrow,but may be at a much smaller scale,too much of an upturn is also bad for our health.

well it isn't! .... Dow is now down 50+ at 11058 at FTSE down 40+ at 5625

LAST SAW DOW WAS DOWN 16 POINTS STILL FEW MINUTES LEFT,AND ALWAYS OPTIMISIC.

you ain't been watching live time! 11054 mid

Well we shall see tomorrow,early decline may be than into positive territory,any way good luck for tomorrow.

11044

would rather my hedging bet had gone against me, but let's hope London does not get all girlie and throw a tantrum

Got this just about right!!

Shame after nicking 10 here and 10 there I was in the the pub when it broke down, missed 100point play there!!!

Blox!!

Pommy - 23 May 2006 18:03 - 219 of 235
Wedge forming on the daily dow , could blow big time either way in about 2 hours!!!

If it goes down thru 11160 we could see a 100point fall, which i think is more likely than the alternative which would have to see us breach 11200.

I'm trying to RECALL if you are the same Pommy who used to be on the other side - and maybe still is. I think we should be told. Apologies if you are not that re-incarnation.

TOK

I try not to Recall past losses, they are but lessons in the passing of time!! ;)

I know the feeling. Welcome.

got it!!

lovely, now come back down so i can swap that june for a december!!

GPX - am sorry I was rather forced out of that a few days ago, albeit still at a profit, but could not keep holding everything ...... surely you could have just called SG to place the shares via the market, or does that not work for spreads?

Edited.
Point made

it was in backwardation , could have called, closed out at 190+ in the end anywya and reopened some at 183 .
On the other side someone is feeding the BB with what seems like good info!!
Watch Philip!

have also got back in at 180 ... thanks for bringing it to my/our attention

i will be closing all my sb's into the next rally, and selling many of my paid for positions. Im well up on the year, despite a beating recently, but i beleive there is a mother of a fall on its way and i will be buying SnP Sept puts when this rally runs outta steam! 1125 on the Snp but August is possible IMHO, its gone up on small volume over the last few months!

no one knows whats going to happen. im hedging on going sideways for a while until the full extent of all the worries come to the surface ie no 1 inflation, iranian situation, commoditity situation.

Your right Kivver ,no one knows ,look at the last 2 days ,you can try and trade this all you like ,but it will be luck more than judgement if you keep getting it right.

I've been trying out a "demo CFD" service, where you get some play money to trade with, as I wanted to see if I'd be any good at trading (as oppossed to investing). Very scary. Good job it was only play money. It was an eye opener though, as to where all this volatility is coming from, and does nothing but highlight my fears of much much worse to come.....

Strawbs.