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

Long again @6,439.8!

confess i can see no sensible reason for this severe tumble on both sides of the atlatic, other than it's what the markets seem to want to do - and a lot of forced selling too i'ld wager

When you went long skinny I went short on UKX and was worried, out at 6436.3 + 14.2 scalping is a lot easier than trying to call top or bottom and exhausting. Back at 2.30.

6431 long

Dollar Index on a mission today.

what a vile day!
whatever the pre-opening asst'd numbers were in usa, they don't seem to have inspired much, to say the least

USD/JPY short looks feasible right now to move back below 100

I think the Euro CPI figures started the rot this morning - other issues apart!

Happy January!

confess i've made a complete cock-up of this month, starting when i lost my nerve on the short positions i had very early on

I don't think you are alone cynic!

Small DOW @15,622!

I started the Year shorting Next.... Couldn't have made a worse call there..

On the bright side though we do have 11 more months this year to thunder..

There's also a rumour that it might stop raining sometime this year!

That'l never happen.

6431 closed... An to think I was going to give up this game to sell wellies..

You too! :-)

Closed DOW +30.

Nice, well done Skinny