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

No worries, don't trade it personally.

DAX live:

http://www.boerse.de/indizes/DAX/DE0008469008

answer is DEX.
i think all time high is just below 12,400

Cheers cynic.

DOW
just banked decent profits on selling 2/3 of long position

and just closed last bit at b/e
looks that we could be in for some profit-taking today given that it's last day of the month and friday too

this won't help sentiment either .....
Mike Flynn indicates he would testify in Trump-Russia inquiry in exchange for immunity

Trump has certainly got his term off to a very poor and rocky start ....... the possibility of ultimate impeachment may lurk in the distant background

'......it's last day of the month and Friday too'.........also last day of the first quarter plus final week of the 2016/17 UK tax year. I think the US tax year ends on 18th Apr this year. DOW futures looking slightly negative atm.

wouldn't mind a hefty clunk it must be said

Stock Market Almanac 2017, spot on today. Part of the April summary historical, UKX short Monday and Thursday - Long Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Be interesting to see if that plays out this week.

"April is one of the most exciting months for investors! Five years ago, April was the strongest month for the stock market in the year, but now it ranks second behind December. The two months have been switching first and second places for quite a few years. For the last few years it has been December in top spot, but April is not far behind. Interestingly, this characteristic is not unique to the UK market, a study of 70 markets worldwide found that the strongest months for shares were (in descending order) December, January and April.".

On average, the market rises 1.8% in this month; and the probability of a positive return in the month is 72%.
Since 2003, the market has only fallen three times in April, although this doesn't match the earlier performance from 1971 the market rose for 15 years - a recent record for any month.

The market often gets off to a strong start in the month (not today unfortunately) - the first trading day of April is the third strongest first trading day of all months in the year. The market then tends to be fairly flat for the middle two weeks and then rises strongly in the final week.

The great seasonality significance of April is that it is the last month in the strong part of the six-month cycle (November-April) and therefore investors may be reducing their exposure to equities ahead of May.

US Markets taken off early doors.

Dow 200 up, then 200 down. If only everyday ran like this.

i'm 3 hours ahead of uk here, and though i saw Dow had collapsed, i didn't realise it had been minus 200 at one point

i have no idea why ...... fear of rising interest sates perhaps?

anyway, i'm glad i'm hedged with shorts on both Dow and Dax

Mr T set off overnight dump.

Should be interesting today.. slightly o/t but what's happening with Bilic lately CD?

i've been out all day, but from the odd glance, it looks that there has been considerable yo-yoing
i think i saw that DOW had been up quite a lot but is now down nearly 40

is there any actual reason or is it just early april manoeuvring?

No idea what direction will be this week heading into Easter.

United Airlines UAL could be an interesting one in US Today.