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

a (in)decent picnic by the river would be just thing in this weather and wine is def for shring

Just back from lunch time picnic by the river with daughter and grand daughter - very enjoyable.

GBP Construction PMI 49.0 consensus 50.1 previous 50.9

USD ISM Manufacturing PMI 49.6 consensus 50.0 previous 49.8

Above 50 signifies industry expansion, below indicates contraction.

just to keep things under control, sold 1/3 AAPL and GOOG for a tasty profit + all AMZN for a modest one

dow
bounce likely from this +/-13000 level

Have you ever traded ebay, cynic? Seems to be doing quite well and owns PayPal which seems to be a real money spinner for them.

nope

Not a bad chart Harry.

One of those 'if only' stocks! I recently completed my W8-BEN form so am ready to start looking at U.S. stocks. It's gonna take some serious research by the look of it! At least I recognise most of the UK company names!!!

Wow - what a lovely bounce! Have been long DOW from 13006

Apparently it's rebounding on the back of AAPL cynic - no doubt you're raking in some more!

On the 20 June I posted £/$ still had 400 pts to go up. At the time it was at 1.5635.

As long as you use massive stops that position would now be in 240 pts in credit.

By massive I'm estimating 240 pts

easy this trading lark!

i still hold some AAPL and also added further dow long at 13002 ..... former well in the money of course, but the latter still has ground to make up (of course!)

Closed an overnight US Dollar Index long for +125, golfing today so out the game till tonight.

That's the way to do it Chris - while you sleep and then play golf to unwind :-)

Tough at the top skinny:O)
(How would I know, started at the bottom and liked it!)

Totally off topic, but had to laugh at this. Even the Sheiks are having to pawn their posessions!

"Cash Converters opens Dubai store"

thanks for that snippet .... i'll be in dubai next week, and given that the locals won't touch anything second-hand - hence no re-sale market to locals even of property - there could be some bargains to be had there .... watches with second hand - groan groan, groan .... lots of jeux de mots possible here, some less tasteful than others!!

a sign of the economy there - CC's store is based in a heavy ex-pat enclave

China revises up 2011 GDP growth to 9.3 pct from 9.2 pct
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/china-revises-2011-gdp-growth-071447003.html