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

just read, thanks.

Bit grim isn't it.

Presume the gun is for you?

If you've a spare bullet .....

I've just spotted a vacant windowledge....!.

I used to be worth 4 x salary dead according to my pension statement. I wonder if that still holds up? Worth less than my portfolio now, so I doubt it.

How does that song go?...It's raining men...
I'll leave a spare bullet in the magazine dealer, you should find it smoking next to my desk!

cheers. I'll try not to disturb your body .....

lol

sorry about that!

Might need to send for the "Wolf" in the film Pulp fiction, he's very good at cleaning up that sort of mess!

lol

check-out SIA and MDX

Libor rate is slowly improving.
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i can't do any trades on-line now since DOW opened anyway. The volatility has destroyed that option

CNBC website shows the DOW in positive territory ?

Edit: Down again now. Dead cat maybe....

Strawbs.

Dealerdeal i've had the occasional problem with Selftrade, but my Halifax a/c has been ok.
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700 down then 50 up now 100 down

as soon as I get my money out, I'm switching cause Selftrade are hopeless

If the price of oil keeps on dropping the falkland oil stocks will be reduced to pennies because the price of crude could drop so much that their projects will no longer be worth their while and would have to be put on hold !.

Ftse is looking like a total disaster....don't know whether to sell out or stay put !.

That was the problem investors had in 1974 & 1987 and it looks absolutely horrendous atm (so maybe we are not far from turning up), but just like '74 & '87 the markets will recover, imo of course.
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I hope so because years of hard work watching stocks, and profits are all going down the plughole at the moment !.

there is a rumour going around that they are going to shut the SM's on Monday.

US will be shut anyway