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

quite so, but will the market actually take that badly after all? ...... as we all know, markets tend to be very contrary, so there is a good argument, that once the details of any tapering programme are known, all will stay steady albeit that there may be an initial, negative knee-jerk reaction

i sold one of my NMX3720 positions this morning to lock in a decent profit ...... my greed is now tempting me to buy at it back

have now banked the profits on a dow and a ftse long position .... merely a bit of a precautionary move against the expected/usual friday sell-off!

Friday is quadruple witching day!

Double Witchings, Triple Witchings and Werewolves

that'll be exciting and unpredictable then :-)

These days its only worth putting in wide limits on the indexes.

i don't put any

I do :-)

NMX 3720
succumbed to "itchy finger" and bought back that contract at 10307 with the intent of trading it - profitably i hope - during the course of the day

DOW - I'm now running short.

Picked up a few UU. for the ISA this morning

i could easily be wrong, but ftse at 6554 looks like a modest support level ..... provided the dow (in the persona of MrB) doesn't scare us all, then i would favour the likelihood of a rise tomorrow - more likely starting this evening on the back of the dow

a good firm equivocal prediction don't you think? :-)

I agree. I think. Possibly. :-)

did i make a good call or what :-)) ?
dow currently +170 and ftse +80

I knew it would. :-)

Short @6,633

as for me, have just closed all dow/ftse except one small long position in both

1-0 to the machines.

It was all over in 1/1000th of a second!

I can't think what you are suggesting!