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

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?

Trying to learn; goldfinger's chart - from December:

Is that a lower low on price and higher low on the oscillator?

Thanks,
KidA

Skinny, Mikes reply..........

Michael Hewson ‏@mhewson_CMC 23m
@MickKipper Yes mate - from CMC Platform - the analysis is on the charts forum section so you can replicate the analysis on your own chart.............ends

Do you require anymore detail skinny?

No that's fine - thanks.

KidA - 19 Dec 2013 12:09 - 13674 of 13676

Trying to learn; goldfinger's chart - from December:

Is that a lower low on price and higher low on the oscillator?

Hi Kida, mikes aim was to show that the SP was facing resistance in a long term rectangular pattern. But at the same time pointing out the index was still in a down trend.

If ftse's last swing low prove to be significant then we are in a uptrend already(i think it is and im long) also cyclicals like asos hitting new highs can suggest where market is heading.

..can suggest to certain minds...of course..to some of them like experts will do f ... all..lol

Hello goldfinger,

Cheers, I should've put my post differently; the oscillator from December:

There is the initial low, up, shallow dip, then back to up; is the bottom of the dip considered a low?

Thanks,
KidA

Kida the low is that 2nd green candle from the right in that downtrend channel,

The low coincided with the open, in other words the market gapped down on opening and then recovered during the rest of the day but closed off its highs hence the wick on the candle top.

Hope that helps, difficult keep having to move backwards to check whilst Im holding this lap top on my chest LOL.