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

German Industrial output figures better than expected.

Anyone shorting EUR/GBP at the mo? Also I long Dec Future positions on Barclays, Rockhopper and Heritage...

thoroughly agree that is hopelessly over-valued, but have thought that for years ..... nevertheless, it still refuses to fall, so it's a fairly brave call

NVDA up 6.9% and YHOO +6.7% pre market - could be a good day if Obama speaks the speak.

LOL - 5300 and 11300 - what a crazy market!

thought Obama wasn't speaking until tomorrow (thursday) ..... however, i think bernanke is speaking somewhere today

cynic - yes you are correct (about Obama) - I read later in the week as later today on CNN!!!

Obanana is speaking Thursday late afternoon US time.

midnight BST

Yep - Bernanke 18:00 tomorrow our time.

Clear as mud :-)

Yeh 18.21 Baghdad time

the penny seems to have dropped smell of burning shorts might become a forest fire!

Don't bank on it.

what has banking got to do with it!

Everything

no nothing stocks look cheap

sector non-specific, i would have thought that this rally will over-boil some time tomorrow (thursday), and once friday's employment numbers come out, linked to whatever obama may have to say, the market will decide where next

cynic heads or tails?

Short or long