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

Cheers Shortie - in and out again this morning so no position atm - any obvious cause of that run up earlier?

Nope but I'm now carrying a few losses as a result.

Only 2.44 points tonight.

I guess maybe Putin saying he had no intention of seizing any other regions of Ukraine helped.

Well he would say that, could you imagine if he said "stage 1 complete, now for the rest of the country!!"..

You know how fickle the markets are....

Mmmmm, hopeing for a drop this afternoon otherwise I'm looking to take a few losses and move on.

FTSE exited at loss

Bad luck Shortie - I've just gone short @6604.3 - small!

I got a small one at 6600, fingers crossed... I'm running short of portfolio funds at the moment, think it'll be small bets for a while until I've built it back up.

Looks like I should have taken notice of my post 14834!!!

Just closed out at another loss.

6620 try another, 50p short this time..

Looks overbought on everthing upto the 2 hour at the moment....

That upper red bolly band I referred to as the retracement target in 14736 currently resides at 6674, Shortie and Skinners. There's a way to go yet.

But not today Hils :-)

Closed 6616.8 - think it said +£1.60.... Oh well, its a start..

:-)

Spike to 6,677!

6622.3 going long 50p bet again