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

Nikkei rises to highest close in nearly 5 years, banks in demand

French Industrial Production m/m 0.7% 0.6% -1.2%

Makes a change for the French to be doing well!

Thanks for the colours btw Skinny

Mistress - not used to seeing you on here so often .... hope that isn't a sign of marginal stress .... fyi "guru" still says stay short but he is watching that dow does not build a base above 14550

Yes thanks Cynic. I just didn't like the DOW running away above 14700 while I was short!

Still long on my FTSE - now with a target of 6350 and stop of 6330.

Still running my gold long - a little bit surprised at how strong this has been with the FTSE rising

I closed +8 now sitting on my hands - well done Bhunt.

POG foray seems to have been well timed.

I ran a little Long FTSE first thing but closed it far too soon and reversed it to go short! Well done indeed Bhunt!

Have removed my target of 6350 and moved my stop up to 6345 - starting to look heady

It's getting high on that China data!

Italian IP @9am.

Thats me out

still in gold though

A bit late.

Italian Industrial Production m/m -0.8% -0.4% 1.0%

Still short EUR/GBP and Wall St, also now short on GBP/JPY

I'm waiting patiently on my hands, shortie, before I fillmemanolos with yen cross longs.

The hourly indis of all the yen crosses have been unwinding over the last couple of days, but the price action hasn't matched the indis. That generally means the price is on the verge of exploding much higher.

Edit - duplicate post. Soz.

One post for each hand ? :-)

Router keeps dropping off, skinners, sorry. My son must be streaming porn again. :o)