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

cynic don't get too emotional and don't be afraid of your own shadow :)

I'm contemplating buying some of these in my SIPP.

Looks interesting skinny. Selling the FTSE100 in effect.

Yep!

Give santa a push. :-))

certainly the party can't go on for ever but as always, the timing of the turn is so difficult as is determining pre-emptive action

Thought I'd just check in, I'm still short, I see no reason to be long at all.

cynic and his lack of direction nonse as usual. party is now and currently is all about it.the change in behaviour was there in a front of an eyes giving a way to play it right way... or not/wrong way when so over-expert's idiocy is taking over as usual.

it's a brave call shortie, but though i bit the bullet on some of my short positions, i still have some open .... for the moment at least, i am not tempted to add to those but may gradually close a few longs in the coming week or two, purely as a precautionary measure

lol

A lot of the yank analysts bar the odd usual bear (Marc Faber) are calling for a good year on the US equity markets.

Its always down to the yanks anyway which way we go, personally I think interest rates the world over may be under pressure to rise, which would give equitys a kick in the teeth especially exporting companys v exchange rate.

I dont see this coming though until perhaphs spring but you never know with the markets as you will all know.

Just a reminder aswel if your thinking of closing out longs at midday today. 27th of december is in the top three bullish trading days over the last 10 years. 85% positive since 2003.

cynic cynic...lol..
being long main market's dependents and the same time being short main market..or other way..lack of direction nonsense or this is top of over-expert's idiocy or just lie about back up?

I just see the FTSE as still trading the same August onwards range, until there is a breakout then nothings really changed.

Looks like this thread has picked up some interference (tomasz), not sure what he/she is saying in 13766. Read the post 3 times and it still doesn't make sense. Maybe I need a Polish translator or something.

Updated charts from post 13678.



FTSE / DOW

knowing your move I bet you need more than that ..mega shortie..lol

The better the economy does the higher the chance of a base rate rise...

not much far from nonsense in relation to current running loss

shortie - tomasz gibbers away pretty much on his own on the ASOS thread ..... much of the time he likes to pretend that he only speaks pidgin English, and it is pretty rare for his posts to make much if any sense ...... indeed, even on ASOS, it is unclear (for what it is worth) what if any positions he holds at any one time ...... like fred, but for different reasons, i ignore him >97% of the time

Sh,straight after Christmas you hope for news of rate cut and in a next 15 min there will be market plunge saving your ass and proving that you "know " something..you need more than translator baby.