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

Santa better get his sleigh up Wall Street asap.

Alf showing paranoid tendencies again!

Looking like Santa doesn’t exist CD ):-

Yes Stan.

My faith in him is waining.

He wont be coming down the chimney at this rate.

Non-farm payrolls today at 13:30 (GMT)
Expected +198,000 jobs in November vs +250,000 in October

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US wage growth held steady in November even as hiring slowed sharply, offering evidence that the labour market remains robust enough to justify at least one more increase in short-term interest rates by the Federal Reserve later this month.

Year-on-year wage growth was unchanged at 3.1 per cent, the quickest pace since April 2009, according to data released on Friday by the labour department. The world’s biggest developed economy added 155,000 jobs in November, compared to the 250,000 increase recorded in October and well below economists’ forecasts of 198,000.

1 trillion dollars gone on US Markets this week.

Fingers crossed for next week

yet another shit day in the making
just be thankful that no one here (i think) has ever played with bitcoins and other joke cryptocurrencies

I've got a couple of bob in BLU, does that count?

what on earth is BLU?

meantime, Dow has dumped a further 450 and £/$ is now 1.253

An emerging leader in digital nanopayments.

If you want more info (which I doubt) look them up.

FWIW I have got no inkling what this market is going to next as there are too many balls up in the air...
So put a fair bit into Rangold Resources this morning as gold miners should be less susceptible to downturns to the current worldwide uncertainties

Good move to have some exposure to gold, re the markets it can't be a surprise that they are falling surely.

Always thought "Nano" was a Mexican takeaway-but what do I know

You can't do much with BLU atm as they are suspended, until the end of this month, so we are told.

Start of rally to get back where we were a month ago!!!!!!!!!

Or am I too optimistic

just to cheer you all ....

Mike Ashley issues dire warning for UK retail industry
Sports Direct chief says November was ‘worst on record’ as poor Christmas sales add to gloom

wall street collapsing in a bloody heap once more
currently down 300 at 23,800

Sentiment is not too good lately,

Seasons Greetings to all those who enter the Bear Pit.

Hope we all made some this year.

Its been tough going.

another shitty end to another day ..... hey ho

DOW now down 375 at 22925 :-(