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

-290 ?

It was -190 when I looked at 13.25 hrs, honest! All over the place now. Grim nevertheless.

Yes dire - DOW 10,795 to buy atm!

Casino opens in 30 mins, place your bets. Those crazy yanks could do anything :O)

Closed all my shorts, indices could be a bit oversold for Friday.

God bless America, and thank you for today's huge profits.

Could O'Banana please speak next Tuesday so I have time to short everything.

WTI $81 BRENT $106 when is it going to tank?

anybody brave enough to go long tonight!

lol

I have 10,589 as the intraday low for the DOW on the 9th August - tonight?

Doubt it will go that low Skinny my guess it will close around 10840 - 10880 but who knows there may even be a bounce Friday looks oversold to me.

"Do you have faith in the Fed" seems to be the#1 question over in crazy land, are there enough expletives in the world to answer that one. :O)

if you can separate politics from "actual" economic performance then you can see the way forward.

Glad to see you are still with us halifax

Bernard - its @10,750 now!

On edit - sorry you mean close!

impetus below 10700 is a real fear and one to watch

When FTSE drops below 5000 Friday watch the fallout, bloodbath on the cards. Happy im a shorter.

dow now 10600, so armageddon potential

FTSE futures 4997 financial meltdown Friday

4850 is apparently a key ftse number ..... cash ftse currently 5018

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dow closing at about 10730 with ftse cash at about 5055

Dow close 10717 FTSE Futures close 5061