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

Empty the pool first,.. me hearties.....and may the first victim take the diving board position.....(*note ; must read this with a west country accent)...

Ahaaaar Jim lad!

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I've just bought LGEN sub 1 - hmmmm.

One of the worst days ever.....and what bothers me is this ever going to stop ?.....I'll be forced into selling if the same happens again tomorrow......my POG long is a disaster.....badly need a turnaround

the one day I didn't have the opportunity to log on....what a good one to choose!

Dow now in utter freefall!!

another day like this and i'll be looking buy dow at 11160 - if i don't take cyanide first

I can't afford another day like today without closing a few daft longs of mine....and that's in gold producers...crazy.... non ?....

Now I realise why I don't trade on margin. I am sure lots of you are skilled in that department, but when things go wrong................!
Looks like the Italians are to blame at the moment!

Gold off the highs @1663

Richard, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the DOW at 11100 :-)

rf - Not in Cey, down -5 HGM, stopped out of Dom long yesterday -7, up on MTO short. Tightened stop on HGM volume isn't as great as CEY today but of course that could change tomorrow.

Dow not looking good.

I have a very nasty position in POG....I hate to admit it.....now I can either pray for a rebound .....close it or close another nasty.....not doing well this year at all......last year did fine on these, but it's going horribly wrong at the mo.....

take solace that POG is actually a very good company with real assets etc etc and not just some blue sky miner ...... i'ld be inclined to stay with them if you can, just i shall do; ditch the garbage in preference, some of which i did today

This market is taking no prisoners. Does it matter what assets it has. A prodcer should come out of this quicker then an explorer.

When I mean nasty. I mean another bad position as if I support it with funds I might get stretched so tomorrow morning is crucial so I'll probably stay in POG and close something else if the market decides to plunge further...(heavens forbid)....the crazy thing is that it might be a long in Afren.....got this market badly wrong...got rid of other bad underperformers to top up in one or two things RRL and Afren...

something to make you chuckled i hope ..... dow is now down 265, but the knock-on effect is that "cash ftse" is +24 from the close

Need a rebound in dow before closing....otherwise my axe will fall tomorrow morning on at least one position....