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

statistics and damned lies as usual.

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Skinny, do you know what tonight divi payment on the FTSE is?

0.3 of a point!

Still short the FTSE - and yet again, the DOW looks positive!?

Thanks Skinny, nice small one then. I'm currently weighted long FTSE after taking some shorts off the table today, been playing the range for the past week or so. No Wall St positions currently. Short on the DAX also, although I have a feeling this may well rally if and when Wall St does. Got a couple of shorts on GBP/JPY also.

Thanks for that video Shortie, sorry for the slow response, but I was confined to bed yesterday with a bug and am just about recovered today. Unfortunately I only got audio, so can't say it was particularly useful!!

Anyway, I've gone long GBP/JPY this morning, hoping today's the day :-)

Look like your in luck, I've closed my GJ shorts and taken a loss

That buggers up the charts GJ 161 target short or 168 target long...

168 will do me nicely. Don't think it will be smooth though.

Good call on your long Seymour, think I'll stay away for now and let my burnt short selling fingers heal a little.

Well if it's any comfort I made some poor calls last week and this is helping to heal the balance.

And it was going so well....

If you like a chart with gaps - up 7% atm.

Skinny, that UKX one looks like a currency chart!

GJ sitting on around +100 with 60 locked in. Waiting for tomorrow.

Closed my GJ long this morning for +143, since when it's gone 40 pips higher. Anyway, still a good result. Unlikely to take any new trades this week unless I find time for a scalp, because of the US holidays and a bit of JPY news very much later today.

Well done SC.

The DOW was just @16,145 to sell - about as high as I've seen it.

Well played Seymour.

Just added some more FTSE @6,679.

I'm really posting just to show what can be done with Fx, also as a bit of a trade log. Not trying to boast at all.