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 closes up 293 @16167, FTSE cash +81.

Cyners I did warn you.

Hopefully drag the FTSE up tomorrow .

Super expert cynic not the only one with no clue about what is doing.Recently mine broker started beta platform where traders (?) or so called experts as one here can see each other moves with exact open/close positions.So there is one who is still short ftse from 6442 at £25/point and short dow from 15705 at £6/point meaning he is £2500 + and £2400+ respectively down and running..I dont know what worst : losing that money or not realising being wrong about whole thing.lol

yes you did sticky, but the damage could have been much worse as those shorts should be more than covered (i hope) by the longs i have elsewhere .... anyway, for now at least, i'll leave them all running and see what happens next

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early doors shows very little damage done overall relative to last night's london close

Lol ."lets see what happen next"- i love it the most..
I can imagine a movie where Goldman Sachs taking cynic on board as chief executive of trading and let him sit down in propetiary trading room with all access to account and cynic goes: lets go short here, here , long here , here , add more here and here.. then he is turning to everyone stunned behind him and say : " let see what happen next " ...f...wet my pants..lol

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Approaching resistance, lets hope it gets blasted away.

GF - if that is a CMC chart, how did you capture it?

GF - Nice looking chart

Skinny on CMC site.

What's the option/icon - I can't see it.

Its on the twitter site skinny.

What is?

The chart. Its just a copy from the site.

They put up various ones during the day. A bit like the the Charles Stanley bulletin.

Must come from CMC platform though. Surely they arent using third party technicals.

Tell you what Ill ask ........

just tweeted this......

@mhewson_CMC Excelent FTSE chart Mike, is that from the CMC trading platform?. A lot asking on money am. Help appreciated.

Oh right - the only option (that I can see) is to print a chart to a PDF file - no good for posting here really.

I use Greenshot to capture the screen and then crop the image and upload to Imgur. Then capture the web address to post on here as an image.... Very long winded with the new CityIndex system but the only way I've found to do it..

IG's are pretty straight forward to using the 'save chart as image' option.

What does Greenshot give you that printscreen doesn't?