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 Futures starting to reverse, downwards.

:-)

If indeces do sell off on US data, worth keeping a watch on gold chart and Dollar index chart to see which one is favoured as place of safety. I'm outa here playing golf.

Not many places to hide with what is coming

Golf course better option than hiding behind the sofa Bernard :O)

Don't do a Tevez Chris!

Wake up skinny.

Carlos Tevez fails to play again... on the golf course

Good one skinny, the only new club he will be going to till Jan is a new driver :O) Right that's me good luck guys, unlike Tevez my tee time is booked.

Bernanke: U.S. Unemployment a National Crisis

Please do not this numpty speak today.

Up we go

Here come those crazy yanks.

Yes skinny bringing us down as soon as they trade.

short Dow @ 11265 :)

Just thinking about going long :-))

out +35

splat you should have stayed short.

I am still short with a good trailing stop.

I'm not playing the DOW today - I'm off to London shortly, for ex colleague's 60th.

yeah, you're probably right BM. Will look to get back in on another rise though, or further weakness, for that matter!