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

lol

Long / Short ?

lol yes - some people can be undecisive but not sure!!!

For Thursday -

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Retail Sales (JPN)
PMI Retail (GER) (08:55)
Unemployment Rate (GER) (08:55)
PMI Retail (EU) (09:00)
Economic Sentiment Indicator (EU) (10:00)
Business Climate Indicator (EU) (10:00)
Gross Domestic Product (Final) (US) (13:30)
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30)
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30)
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45)
Pending Homes Sales (US) (15:00)
Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Activity (16:00)

Looks like another bloodbath for the FTSE Thursday. Lost 70 points since close on futures price. So looks like FTSE will open down at least 70 points Thursday.

Update FTSE Futures closed 5141 down 76 points

When will it end?

11,000 - I spit in your eye.

After Greese defaults and gets thrown out of the Euro.

Short for the rest of this year is my bet.

Sub 11000 coming now skinny now 11017

Bernard , I do not think the crazy Merkel thinks as you.





Greece to face inspectors, Merkel hints at bailout change






19:37, Wednesday 28 September 2011

ATHENS (Reuters) - EU and IMF (Berlin: MXG1.BE - news) inspectors will return to Greece on Thursday to decide whether Athens has done enough to secure a new batch of aid vital to avoid bankruptcy, while Germany suggested a new bailout may have to be renegotiated.

Merkel has got to be stopped.

She will be out soon people of Germany against bail out of Greese soon Germany will have riots.

Great, she will wreck europe. If its not already.

lol merkel is nuts - she is in the same league as those two scottish nuts bliar & brown - germans will give her the order of the boot if she continues to push the self destuct button

type not destuct but destruct

a message to merkel:


If, as Albert Einstein observed, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, then one of the latest proposals for resolving the eurozone debt crisis requires psychiatric rather than financial assessment.
LOL

trouble at home for merk the berk too:

today:


German inflation has hit a three-year high this month, reports Ralph Atkins, our Frankfurt bureau chief:

The figures indicate that eurozone price pressures have accelerated more than expected and will complicate the European Central Banks task ahead of its interest-rate setting meeting next week.

German annual inflation jumped to 2.8 per cent in September on a harmonised European basis, up from 2.5 per cent in August and the highest since September 2008, the countrys statistical office reported.

As a result, figures due on Friday could show eurozone inflation hit 2.7 per cent this month, economists said.


let the greeks sink woman!!

lol. Is she on her own with her crazy thoughts or does she have support from other
countries. USA a laugh commenting about Europes debt. Ha, ha

go slovakia go!!!


If approved by the 17 governments that back the fund known as the European financial stability facility the changes that Mr Barroso is advocating could make it easier to deploy and faster to activate in times of crisis.

The EFSFs limitations have come into focus as member states have struggled to win ratification for a revamp that their leaders agreed at a July summit in order to make the fund more flexible and increase its lending capacity.

Thus far, only six of 17 member states have completed ratification. Of particular irritation to many EU officials is the fact that Slovakia one of the smallest eurozone members has threatened to derail the entire process.

More broadly, European officials complain that the need for unanimity has deepened the scepticism in financial markets that the EU will be able to carry out the policies it has put forward to confront the crisis.


you dont say! LOL

Slovakia lol