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

dow is a laugh a minute!
either the labour figures are too bad or too good and either fed will start tapering soon or perhaps it won't, so let's all have a really good churn!!

seemingly neither of those and dow just taking putin and his political sabre-rattling re syria with a certain seriousness

cynic we just have to take this huff and puff ball on.

thoroughly agree, and also to avoid being suckered in when the market is flying around without logic ..... but you must agree, today has been totally nuts!

cynic agree traders trying to create volatility, aren't you getting tired of all the blogs from "shares" journos trying to ramp up their punted stocks? we are.

i very rarely follow any though i find QL quite good ..... Shares Mag i only really use when it has something to say about companies in which i am already interested

FTSE short 6542 from this morning.

6527.5 Position closed +14.5pts

6522 gone short again

6579.8 short ftse

Looks overbought

It does, but the big guns are leading this today - some staggering rises.

We'll see, I think this afternoon could well see some staggering falls. Lets not forget that all this positive economic news strengthens the case that no more QE is required.

I've just gone short!@ 6599!!!

Shortie - have you got one of charts for gold please?

Daily below

Thanks.

Closed @6,584 +15.

Well done Skinny, looks like I'll be funding overnight, hope the dividend isn't a large one!!

1.4 points tonight.