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

Shortie - thanks, but it was a sh*te trade really - still could have been worse.

lol, indeed it could...

Oil on the rise; natural gas jumps in wake of storm

MADRID (MarketWatch) -- Oil futures extended gains on Wednesday, as investors awaited upcoming U.S. crude inventory data and the scheduled start-up of TransCanada’s Gulf Coast Pipeline, while natural-gas prices saw a sharp jump in the wake of another storm for the East Coast.

Crude oil for March delivery CLH4 +0.84% , which became the front-month contract after February crude oil expired on Tuesday, advanced 43 cents, or 0.5%, to $95.42 a barrel in electronic trading.

Oil prices rose 58 cents on Tuesday, or 0.6%, to settle at $95.55 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. February crude oil CLG4 +0.98% climbed 92 cents , or 1%, to close at $94.88 a barrel on its expiration day.

Clear as mud!

Intel: The PC is back, now what?

Bank of England in no rush to raise rates as unemployment plunges

Surprised the FTSE has held up this morning considering the Asian falls and media speculation of an interest rate rise..

I looked at platinum earlier - as posted here - but did nothing!

Same boat, window shopping positions..

washout this week we need some better weather!

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There you go Shortie - I hope you're in.

Tin hats on i think

I am indeed short FTSE Skinny, 3 positions carried.

Today is shaping up to be a very good day for me... :-)

Closed Ftse short @ 6765.3 + 31.7 probably miles too early but only interested in covering WMH losses, strangely still above support.

wrong page.

Shortie,

Swap places.

Hey Fred I'm just pleased to have a good positve run following my disaster shorting NEXT before results... Never nice starting off in the red and playing catch-up..

UKX; Price made Higher High and Stochastic Osc a Lower High?

rashman here, having been out all day (cooking masterclass at Quat' Saisons), missed all the gore but have just taken a modest plunge on long dow on the basis that 16175 was the previous resistance, so with luck, will now provide some support ..... so far so good