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

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

The price box was odd before the chart - perhaps I should have tried buying it @6493!!

No Stamp Duty on AIM shares , is that from this April or 2015 ?

This April.