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

long USD/JPY short DOW

can't be a bad call to short dow, even though it's already fallen about 120 points since yesterday

banked some good profits on part of BLNX and arguably should do same to other stuff

November construction PMI 62.6 up from 59.4 in October.

Lovely cup on Cable M15, heading for resistance now.

Long @6,542.

Been debating a long FTSE all morning, are you looking for 6600 first target also?

Yes - its seems fairly pivotal - although just to be in profit would be nice!

Its the first time in ages that I haven't had a short running - most disconcerting!

That's the one Skinny. And Cable certainly is resisting!

Looks like I should have been short GJ. Anyway, a few pips in the bag but not confident to take out a long term position.

Went long GJ early am. Think it's ready for another move up, but wdik? Prepared to be wrong ......

Watching this for a short possibility.

Well that all went wrong. Stopped out.

Nice to see you posting on here again Seymour. Never really got into trading Forex must give it a try one day. Pity Hilary doesn't post more often she would be a great help.

Hils is all delegated, she has a bunch of elves doing it for her.

SC - :O)

Currently short GJ, small profit at the moment, watching with interest ...

164 is a long way down.

Watching also, just closed a cable short for a small profit. Have a long position on USD/JPY running.

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