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

Nothing really has changed, has it? Surely the market will come back up for air...

no, but the market has been pretty strong of late, so a quick plop is not entirely out of order

momentum below 12500 is the panic button time

Spain not so pretty :-

Looks like Eddie The Eagles ski ramp...

somewhat bravely, i modestly topped up my dow long at 12880 ..... reasonable recovery now looks underway, so fingers x-ed

USD Factory Orders m/m -0.5% consensus 0.4% previous 0.7%

Stop bringing us bad news Skinny!

All my monitors seem to have paused on the factory figures - so break up or down?

Just to get the IBEX chart above in context.

fat chance Mistress! :-)

Actually the DOW is looking a bit better, and I also bought in at just below 12900, to counter-act my losses, and that's worked nicely

Yes not a great picture Skinny. IBEX & FTSE-MIB over 5 yrs. I haven't got the Greek indices, but they are showing something like a 90% loss over the same period..

This is the ATEX20 5yr :-

On edit - changed to 5 year.

All too much for me......brain fried.,.

continuing inertia in europe ='s down on friday. when Draghi talks about the euro being impregnable then it is a repeat of Lamont,words without action mean nothing.

cynic - if you like Nasdaq shares, have a look at gilead GILD - I bought a few a while ago.

They are up 8% today on collaborative news - NEWS AND EVENTS

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it is very easy to fall into trying the falling knife trick with Dow ..... have manfully resisted so far, apart from a dabble at 12880 which looked to have been a really good punt for a little while

cynic dow not looking good ar 12810, when do you bite the bullet?