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

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

Closed +12

6820.8 second short

Thought horse's had been replaced by tanks now adays Keaydian....... ;)

Tee hee, long that FTSE.

Tomorrow?

Intraday high of May 22nd last year was 6875.62.

Intraday high of this year Jan 21st was 6867.42.

All time high on 30th Dec 1999 was 6950.60.

Tomorrow indeeeeeed (said in low slow voice).,.