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

confess i assumed it had just crashed ...... obviously one side can't tell a malaysian civil airliner from an enemy jet fighter

Here's the current blurb from the BBC & Reuters

thanks but just seen it on line ...... unbelievable incompetence

small short ftse 6718
dow is tumbling rapidly again and it doesn't look good for the morning

having my 1:3 got my book but seeing this go to 1949.7 feel left table half full..wrrr

Off out all day - just closed my FTSE short @6696.8 +50.9.

Nice profit Skinny, I exited my FTSE shorts this morning... Not much time to trade at the moment...

TESLA (TSLA)
bought just a few this afternoon at $216 - it has been >$250 within the last couple of months
though it's a heavily rated share already, it certainly has a good following
more importantly, china has removed sales tax (10% i think) on electric cars and that is where Tesla are having a big push

it's certainly a very attractive car, but i do wonder about the build quality, but what do you expect from american cars

Dead Loss.

we'll see
i didn't buy many and i'll just tuck them away

They all say that.

at least it's started in the right direction and is +$4 since i bought

6720 still offering short term support, I'd think a break below will trigger a test of support 6650 support followed by a test of the 9 month uptrend back at 6560..

a diddy +20 on a small dow long ..... that said, i'ld be very happy if i could produce that day in and day out throughout the year

Sharp move on Verizon on update - Verizon Delivers Sixth Consecutive Quarter of Double-Digit Operating Income and Earnings Growth

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is projected to report its Q2 earnings at $0.90 per share on revenue of $31.12billion.

well, they clearly blew that forecast away and with some heavyweights also reporting today - see below - we could be in for an interesting session ...... cash dow currently nudging 17100, but just shying away from breaking through


Earnings and economic data: Many big corporate names will be reporting quarterly results Tuesday.
Coca-Cola (CCE), Comcast (CCV), Domino's (DPUKY), Harley-Davidson (HOG), McDonald's (MCD) and Verizon (VZ, Tech30) will report earnings before the opening bell. Apple (AAPL, Tech30) and Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) will report after the close.
On the economic front, the U.S. government will report the latest consumer price index number at 8:30 a.m. ET. Stats on existing homes sales from June will be reported at 10 a.m.

Short FTSE @6,791.2

small dow long @ 17095

certainly one of us should make a couple of shillings, and it's far from impossible that we both do :-)

short sp 1986 , nice stop.

Closed @6,773.4 +17.8.