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 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

just been denied

So they WILL be shut then.
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Is cynic ok? I've not noticed a post from him since early this morning. Maybe we should check all posters are still around. Ha! Ha!
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not present....

thanks Geoprge, your concern greatly appreciated .... have taken a severe battering along with the rest of the world, but am glad to say, did the "right thing" this morning and then spent the rest of the day on the golf course .... having seen the frantic gyrations of Dow, am more than glad i was well away from a screen!

Shorts taking profit for weekend by the looks just rallied to 8650! Nuts ! Glad you are in one piece Cynic

I need some advice from you experts---I have an account with fin and done very badly so far! I decided to stake my last 95quid on shorting the dow on open. I bet 2 pound a point and watched the dow plummet. I should have been quids in instead I watched as the total got to -1000 pounds!!! I tried to close several times and it wouldn't let me---I kept trying and suddenly the order screen went blank and now my account shows -5. Do you think the co couldn't cope with the crash or do I owe them a lot of money? I thought you couldn't exceed the funds in the account for a start. sickening to think my short was right and I still ended up losing! A fool and their money-- Never again!!!

Probably best to ring them asap moneyplus, good luck the dow is a monster at the moment!

thanks F.

m+ .... certainly if you had left a limit (or a stop) it would have been enacted