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

So, half if he stays well behaved and also early release, with conditions, due to overcrowding, so should serve about 30 months. Think his City career is a bit screwed though!

12747 gone long

Harry - if he takes a leaf out of Leeson's book - his future will be in after dinner speaking.

12755 position closed.

Looks a good call Shortie.

Just hoping to cover Paragon losses with a few quick trades..

U.S. DATA WEEK AHEAD: Claims Seen Falling to Still High 410,000

The following are forecasts for this week's remaining data from a survey compiled by Dow Jones Newswires on Friday and Monday. DATE TIME RELEASE PERIOD CONSENSUS PREVIOUS (ET) Wednesday 0830 Jobless Claims Nov 17 410K (13) 439K 0900 Flash Markit PMI Nov N/A 51.0* 0955 Reuters/UMich Consumer Sentiment (final) Nov 83.5 (17) 84.9** 1000 Leading Index Oct +0.2% (16) +0.6% *Revised PMI that came out Nov. 1 **Preliminary November reading (Figures in parentheses refer to number of economists surveyed.)

12745 long again

THE HP write down $8.8B due to 'accounting irregularities' at AU. seems very strange - I think they only paid $10B in total.

12757 closed

Thats me done, Paragon covered now. New Walll St chart if anyones trading

http://rt16.it-finance.com/FinSpreadsFlash/showimage.phtml?id=7ca18328973e579713b9d37e0efd62e4fc4498af883b3a68fb9065f53493aa9c&type=png

FTSE has taken off like a rocket! Good job I wasn't short

Both FTSE and Wall St should recover above 200 DMA today and tomorrow, I think Thursday will have change of direction. Wall St lagging so should be easier to trade IMO..

In Ireland? :-)

Nice edit!

I was wondering why that sudden surge: a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel reportedly was "imminent".

Yes - its a start hopefully.

I doubt the ceasefire had much to do with it.

No - but it is, however temporary, a stop to the killing.