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

Banks were suspended because of down 10%

Just closed DOW short @10,920 +490.

Wow, nice trade :)

Cheers Jon - that 5 minute period must have triggered a few stops.

It's about now that the big boys are asked to turn off their black boxes isn't it, so that trading is stabilised?

Looking at Harry's post 6485 - tomorrow could be an interesting day - especially after today.

what a seriously ugly day ... glad i was out playing golf, though it was a trifle damp towards the end

10750 and 4850 are the nasty key numbers, so i am told

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time to buckle up

Black Friday at least at opening.

Anyone for 5,000.

happy that no drama so far..can be waiting for DOW.. could be double bottom in the making and everyone waiting for rally..Tom DeMark projecting stage setup for DOW 20% rally soon..

4900 coming

4791 the low last week.

If it breaks that skinny next stop 4470 gulp!

Some crazy yields on offer - AV touched 8% earlier.

comeback to 5012.. no drama..silence before storm or storm is over..

The thing I'm convinced of listening to Bloomberg and CNBC is nobody really knows why this is happening now.

To say economies are in a mess, well we've known that for a long time. Yesterday there was a story that a Euro bank had had an emergency loan; or is it forced selling; is it just fear we're going back into a recession?

Lots of questions but no answers. It is a little strange that all politicans seem to have disappeared from the planet during it.