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

2 more futures bought in UK Commercial Property Trust.

I wonder if we'll see a return below 167?

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very very glad i have a little selection of short positions .... tomorrow threatening much blood

And what a beautiful day (hey hey)
What a beautiful day
And nothing is impossible
In my all powerful mind

Skinny, any idea what the dividend payment on the FTSE is tonight for shorts held over?

It's 3.39p

Thanks Skinny.

One I've been watching - down after lowering its guidance pre-market.

About to break out of the 2014 range or simple short??

I'm short (as ever), but I guess we are at the vagaries of the US reporting season over the next couple of weeks or so.

From the IG email.

Amazon.com Inc, expected 9pm on 29 January 2014
Cisco Systems Inc, expected 9pm on 13 February 2014
Citigroup Inc, 1pm on 16 January 2014
eBay Inc, 9pm on 22 January 2014
Goldman Sachs Group Inc, 12.30pm on 16 January 2014
Hewlett-Packard Co, expected 9pm on 21 February 2014
IBM Corp, 9pm on 21 January 2014
Intel Corp, 9pm on 16 January 2014
JPMorgan Chase & Co, 12 noon on 14 January 2014
Microsoft Corp, 9pm on 23 January 2014
Twitter Inc, 9pm on 5 February 2014
Yahoo! Inc, expected 9pm on 28 January 2014

SSYS - was half tempted to buy along with DDD; thank goodness i didn't, nor DDD as it happens

I only didn't buy because HL don't cover it!

I'm looking at ONVO also and missed the dip earlier.

I'm also short on the FTSE (as ever), thought you'd have dabbled in ASOS today Skinny, I sure had some fun...

Shortie..... thats money for old rags!!!

Shortie :-) - I love watching ASOS and did trade it a couple of times last year - but it is too much of a roller coaster for me.

Right I've scaled back my FTSE shorts and taken a few losses after I realised last night I was running too much risk.. What an idiot.. Not the best start to the year..

Descending triangle on FTSE 5 minute?

If it rallies to 6791 then pulls back to complete a third continuation I might be interested..