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

You mean employ me as a valued consultant (which would be a very wise request IMHO ), well firstly I would present her with my rate card and take it from there.. what else.

When are you jumping ship JB?

Oi fish face, you were asking about Gold ETC's on here a while back were you not?

If so there is an article in todays IC, page 43.

Stan you know what i meant ,if she asked are you in or out .
And get off here unless it's trading talk ,come and have an argument on the TALK thread.

On edit
Moved to the correct thread (referendum)
2517

oops wrong thread, stand by for a rollicking from you know who.

I don't do arguments JB.. I'm an educator don't you know.

I would give up on JB.

He is brain dead!

Give up? I haven't got started yet -):

Another up day today.

In and out before breakfast, always nice to start the week on a positive.

Wed is the Fed interest rate decision day. That looks to be the most influential event this week.

EDIT: Forgot UK budget release on wednesday!

Think you were right first time Harry -):

as has become the habit, much of the budget has already been leaked, and the market is accepting it with surprising sangfoid (that'll be a banned word if we vote "out")

I fancy a down day tomorrow but will wait till the morning for some confirmation before maybe going short.

ED: The 100 I mean.

Don't forget guys and dolls till we put our clocks back or is it forward? News stateside 1230hrs Dow open 1330hrs, easy to get caught out :0)

Yes Chris i do get caught out every year.

DOW
17,140 now being threatened
if that breaks, it could lead to further downside


FTSE
still holding comfortably above the key 6,100 level

don't know what these actually were, but DOW has fallen off a bit further .....

At 8.30 a.m. ET the Commerce Department is due to release retail sales data for February with economists expecting a decline from January's numbers. Also at 8:30 a.m. we get the latest U.S. Producer Price Index

Is that US time today or our time for tomorrow?

today and US time