Afternoon trading October 21

Thanks @shovel40, @Fiji1, @uncleBuck and morning crew.

Half-time wrap:

The share market pushed back towards record levels after Wall Street sealed its longest run of weekly gains this year.

The ASX 200 rose 47 points or 0.57% to 8330 by mid-session. The rally lifted the index to within 25 points of last Thursday's record close.

Resource and healthcare companies set the pace, supported by banks and rate-sensitive sectors. A double-digit dive in Wisetech helped drag the tech sector down 2.34%.

US stocks ended a sixth straight winning week with record closes for the Dow and S&P 500 on Friday. The S&P 500 put on 0.4%.


Personal trading: Nice bounce trade in WTC. Part-fill in ADO at the low. Geez, the trading in DOU was extraordinary: I had a buy order at 0.7c that looked like it might be coming in to play; looked away and when I next looked, the price had doubled, lol. This market is starting to look frothy. Been a very long time since I could say that.