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

DOW keeps having a look @11,300.

Amazing! Only this time yesterday, I was being scorned for calling 11,000. The DOW is 11,330 as I type. Where next?

skin if eurozone problems not sorted down to sub 10000.

Ever the cynic yorky.

As I said in post #6773 "Looks like wednesday will be the crucial day for data from the U.S. Crude oil inventories, durable goods orders & speech from Ben B on state of the U.S. economy," so depends on that, imo. Personally am going to take profits on wed morning just in case Ben B casts a downer on things.

Don't you think BB's buddy's the big boys at Goldman, and other institutions will not know well before he speaks the content, and therefore the markets will react to this Tuesday.

Don't forget they all attend the same church.

certainly markets never go up (or down) in straight lines

disagreement re terms for greek bailout tomorrow indicates a (sharp?) down day, even though a solution will almost certainly be found at 11th hour

Yes - how fickle are the markets - I certainly never learn !

FTSE closed today at 5294
FTSE Futures at 20.57 5232 looking like 70 points down at Wednesday open. But who knows maybe a miracle.

I blame that Ben B******

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Should have taken profit today Harry it may be gone by Wednesday. Not often do i stay in overnight.

can't you trade out of hours?

excellent trading conditions then - down then straight back up - lol! interesting day ahead again

Shit night for the Mancs tonight, on both sides of the city. Oh dear,oh dear, oh d
ear :O) Oooops sorry wrong thread.

God gives, and takes away.

You were right BM, damn it! Can't you be wrong just for once??? ;o)
Bloo*y Eurozone kicking off ....again.

Greece bailout money decision looms

European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials are expected in Athens later to review Greece's progress in cutting its debt levels.

You get a feel the FTSE wants to rise but then it seems it is being pushed down with unknown situations in Europe

Sorry Harry. FTSE will rise this afternoon.