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

I did the same 6611.8

6628.8 thats me out +17

6626.5 Short

Out for now +15.

6624 closed

EUR/GBP 0.83594 gone short

Long 6,611.9

Gold soaring...

FTSE now under performing the DOW YTD.


FTSE / DOW

6603 long

your short on dlg looking good skinny.,.

I was long DLG (for the dividend) as a hedge in case I was short the FTSE last night - which unfortunately I wasn't!!

I closed DLG earlier for a net gain of @3 points with the dividend - hardly worth the agg!

6623 position closed +20

I got stuck in DLG, currently -14.15 pip less whatever the divided was 12.??

why not a short from first thing this morning..... sure thing surly (shirly)

12.4p

Because like most ex divies, it opened down by almost the dividend amount.

On edit - I closed @255.86p

Just noticed pound land was trading at @28% premium!!

Thats right opened down from the off as they always do ex-div, I'm going to hold for a few days it may recover a little.