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

Closed DOW +30.

Nice, well done Skinny

Thanks Shortie - roll on 2:45!

Whats happening at 2:45?

Chicago PMI 59.6 59.8 59.1

US Chicago Purch Mgmt Adj Jan Index 59.6 Vs Dec 59.1

USD Revised UoM Consumer Sentiment 81.2 81.1 80.4

USD Revised UoM Inflation Expectations 3.1% 3.0%

Closaed FTSE @6,505.8 +69

Long @6,496.9

Closed flat - that's me done.

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i was lucky enough to make and bank a few shekels on long dow last night, but portfolio looking pretty sick at the moment

FTSE / DOW

Let's see if the FTSE is ready to go back above the 200ma.

FTSE 6508 gone long

6532 position closed +24

Well done Shortie.

Intraday double top on the FTSE.

Cheers Skinny, I'm hoping this will be range bound for most of the day making life nice and simples..

6535 gone short

ISM Manufacturing PMI at 3pm.