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

They will adapt and for a great number of people, annuities will still prove an attractive option.

Maybe so, but with them not being maditory now it'll increase competition against not having one which could well see them becoming better.

Unfortunately, my AVC pension fund was turned into an annuity last month!
There was no inkling that there was such a change on the cards. Anyway, it was only part of my pension and the deal I struck was good enough for me.

Agreed - I hold the 3 biggest fallers and to put their performance into perspective :-

Fingers crossed they hold yields

closed both dow and ftse shorts, thankfully for ok profit

TT - just seen your post - a tad annoying!

reversed to dow long at 16212 ..... only small, but looking ok at the moment

Closed FTSE +36

20pts range and narrowing, good day all the same on the FTSE. 6527.5 curretly I'm short..

6535.8 doubled down.. I feel lucky..

All yours Shortie - just close a long @6539.5 +10

I'm out, took a loss...

IG gone to pot - its showing 6493 for FTSE - the chart looks very odd :-)

I saw that at the close.

Its changed back now.

Trade that!

Thats just a tad weird looking...

Nothing like that on my chart