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 +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

Why are the markets up ?.....nuts....

Because they were down yesterday - hope that helps! :-)

Do you know...I never thought of that....makes me feel a lot better...

I guess perceived drop in threat after the military action failed to materialise @3am and the end to the 'army exercise' this morning.

FTSE long closed, gone short..

It's a miracle there is no bloodshed so far out there.....

G.G. Rules OK!

Short @6,819.3