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

see you for sunday lunch then cyners.....your buying.,.

banked 2/3 at +65 and now running small loss on last 1/3

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sorry BB but have golf match :-)

FTSE short reversed, now long

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glad i softened(??) this morning's bloodshed a little by opening new shorts in both ftse and dow first thing

Long @6,680.3

I went long at @ 6724, closing Fridays short and reversing. Think I'll wait for the open before adding.

Worth a punt?

Closed +20 for now.

How's my FTSE long looking?

Depends whether you had a stop or not :-)

Long @6713.8

Stops are for wimps :O)

Ha ha

closed all dow shorts at an ok profit and left small ftse short running

FTSE long closed @6763 +50 on that spike, before I could edit the limit.

Russia currently up 4%.

sure glad i closed dow short .... have lost about half of it back with continuing ftse short, but i'll leave it for a little to see what happens when things calm down after opening