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

all very quiet ..... let's hope it stays that way as i think we all need a breather or two .... but here's hoping that POG's figures tomorrow promote the same sort of excitement as seen with TLW and WPP this morning

And yet Admiral's figures were blisteringly good and the sp falls 7%! So not sure if good news is always reflected as sp increase.

cash Dow has jumped 40/50 points so it's a good bet that the durable goods numbers were better than expected ...... shall post same here when they are apparent

Durable Goods Orders ex Transportation previous 0.6% consensus -0.2% actual 0.7%
Durable Goods Orders previous-1.3% consensus 2.1% actual 4.0%

DOW is currently -90 (CNN) which looks odd if the goods figures are correct.

it was a fair bit worse before the figs HC and as ever, perhaps yesterday's push was just a tad too frothy!

cash Dow is 11150 (-15)

Harry dow is currently -6.

Futures 11135-11140

:-)

halifax, where do you access your futures figures? (or did DOW rise 84 points in 8 minutes?) Currently use CNN & Bloomberg but they sometimes differ wildly, though I assume they are time delayed.

FTSE 5236 DOW 11267

IG has live prices on its L2 platform

just noticed that gold is -$83.00!

ETX Capital also has live prices on it's platform

Harry as cynic suggests try IG.

meanwhile, all boiled over and Dow now barely ahead

cynic volatility game still being played.

Anyone catch the 80 point fall in the gold price?

no, but not surprised skinny.