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

Lookin' grim for this afternoon!
"Bloomberg - U.S. stock-index futures dropped (currently -94) as an opinion poll showed a majority of Greeks want to renegotiate the terms of their bailout, while the cost of insuring Spanish sovereign-debt against a default rose to a record.

Facebook Inc. (FB), the biggest social network, dropped 1.5 percent in early New York trading. Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, sank 8.3 percent after forecasting a surprise operating loss for the first quarter."

WTF !

EU calls for euro zone banking union, direct bank recapitalisations

whatever that may mean ... perhaps it's a typo for recapitulation

It was either that or the u turn on buzzard control that caused the spike :-)

What does that mean?
Are they going to do it, or just talk about it? What about practicality.

Another crappy day on the markets......I love the month of may for the weather..spring..flowers etc....but as far as for the markets...it's always : yuck... now...

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another spiffing day drawing towards a close

Looks like another rubbish day .

It's going to volatile for some time to come methinks jimmy. Some great opportunities for Index trading though :-)

PMI figures probably didn't help, unemployment rate in 2 minutes!

splat ,i only trade shares now although i did have a punt on the Pound/Euro recently.
Indices /Forex i generally leave alone.

Anyone know which are the risers and fallers from the FTSE 100 list please in a week's time? Can't seem to find the info, though I know that EMG are due to potentially drop out.

Harry - this list is unofficial.

USD Unemployment Rate 8.2% consensus 8.1% previous 8.1%

USD Non-Farm Employment Change 69K consensus 151K previous 115K

CAD GDP m/m 0.1% consensus 0.4% previous -0.2%

USD Final Manufacturing PMI actual 54.0 previous 53.9

Not getting any better is it ?...

UK will have a very productive summer, with hotel bookings at all time high.

Hope so....