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

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.

Thanks skinny , that'll help .

Is it the weekend yet?

Long @6553.

Don't look now - 4 green candles in a row on the 10 minute.

6554 gone short.

Swine! :-)

Closed +5.5

Since when did you ever worry what I was doing Skinny.... Short not looking good..

Hence the smile - looks like I was a bit previous - heyho!

DOW +100