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

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!