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

a sudden and very strong (and welcome) recovery across the board, but have checked and there is no new to support same, so prob just bear covering - keep a weather eye open

now then, now then, now then ...... don't let's get too carried away with ourselves, though it is indeed many a long day since all bar one of my stocks was blue - odd one out was VOD ...... dow reaction after Bernake's speech will be the thing to watch

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i like the dow reaction to bernanke's speech .... after the initial and expected drop, a decent recovery as the brains get back into gear

wow!... and back through the level of 11160 which i am told is/was the critical number ..... another good day in prospect; and when could we last say that?

DOW UP 429points Thats worth a wow.

they're all effin lunatics in my considered view!

DOW futures starting to slip into negative territory which would imply either profit taking or poor inventory data at 15.00 hrs.

neither necessarily ..... perhaps just a bit of hesitation at 11160 level ..... closed my long of last night at a decent profit for the outlay

Here we go again.

Anyone for 5000?

what a very annoying and tiresome day ..... half expected a bit of consolidation, but this is just plain silly

Somebody called Nouriel Roubini. aka Dr Doom who has, apparently, got most of the financial turmoil right so far is predicting another recession. So say yahoo would post link but can't.

There you go - Nouriel Roubini: Big Crash Coming

edit - just noticed that despite todays date in the header, the article is 2 years old.

Thanks smarty, sorry, skinny :-)

They will talk us into a crash, scare mongering.

Looks like the U.S. are worried about Europe again, which is a bit bizarre as the situation hasn't really changed over the last few days in Europe, yet the Yanks have rallied and then fallen, again! All a bit knee jerk to each bit of economic news. One final lurch into the abyss before normality is resumed, I hope.

maggie - this is probably the article to which you are referring -The Man Who Predicted This Crash

That's it Skinny I always like to share the doom & gloom no point of me being worried on my own! Agree with you Dreamy, talk about it for long enough and it becomes self fulfilling!

Looks like we got off quite lightly!

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