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

What no one has mentioned is if your using mobile internet it uses about 5 times the GB , i am at the moment using mobile ,i use about 150GB per day ,today i have used just over 500GB ,if i go to a site i can switch off the video but these are on every page and you can't switch them off ,,,,, i will be off MAM until this advertising has been turned off ,there is no need for a video to be played on every page ,no other site i have ever been on has had a new video on every page .
The usage is worse than watching a youtube video as you flick between pages .
Unfortunately i have no option but to use mobile broadband at the moment.

jimmy, the box to the right has now reverted to playing just silent animations rather than full video. If it stays like that, it should use a lot less bandwidth. Let's hope MAM have got the message. ....Now I must go out and buy some Cillit Bang!

OK, did some research into this and found the following solution. For IE, go to 'Tools' - 'Manage add-ons' - click 'Tracking Protection' then in the pane below click 'Get a Tracking Protection list online' In the page that opens I selected the second entry down 'EasyPrivacy' by clicking the 'Add' button next to it. Make sure it it then enabled in the 'Manage Add-ons' entry list.
That will zap the add box completely and peace and quiet will resume.
Hope this helps. I imagine a similar fix can be used for google Chrome. If I get time I'll look into it.

I did a bit of research for 'Google Chrome' users and came up with this:
In Chrome to the right of the address bar click the 'Customize' button then select the 'Settings' option then click on 'Extensions' on the left side. - Click 'Get more extensions' There is an app called 'Adblock Plus' which claims to zap annoying ads. Presumably if you install that it will do a similar job. I don't use Chrome so haven't tried it myself. Hope this helps.

Rocky - just for info, I use Chrome and don't have that extension installed.

I don't get the ad that is so annoying people.

I do get this on IE, so I guess its something else blocking it in Chrome.

My main browser is now Chrome and I note the Adblock Plus download suggested above.

I do go on certain web sites which provide an excellent service for their subscriber users but in order to do so, they do rely on advertising. Certain facilities are blocked for you, if you in turn block the adverts. eg, AVForums. No problem with it though, as they aren't 'THIS ADVERT IS IN YOUR FACE AND YOU WILL HAVE IT!' intrusive.

I am not against advertising and I do not want to block it. But I definitely don't want it aggressively shoving in my face and particularly with a lack of tools to quieten down the loud sound which accompanies it.

I really do very strongly object to it. And I want to rebel.

My usage of the site has to be an equitable experience.If it is, I stay. If it isn't I go. Simples.

Treat me, a paying user, like a numpty and I also get to feel insulted. Simples to that too. I do the voting with my feet.

MoneyAM's T&Cs for user/members are HERE and one can quickly see, that 'it's their site and they can do what they want' with it. By implication, if you don't like it, then you can always leave.

The advertising in that format totally pisses me off and gets me very near to that type of vote.

Rocky ,

i have gone the route you suggested (Google Chrome) and it seems to have worked , can't check my usage yet as i'm out at the moment but no videos so i would think ill be ok ,
Thank you very much for the instructions ...

If i ever bump in to Barry Scott he better get running !!

Donwload Adblock and try and follow the instructions.

It does work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well there's always the squelch button ..... it works on annoying posters so perhaps it works for adverts to :-))


fred (now you're being sensible for a bit, i hope), are you not going to comment on ukraine etc on your usual "home"? ..... would be genuinely intertested in your view

What are you on about cynic ? you can't squelch an ad .

Who said that!

doh! well done jimmy :-)

Haven't seen ad on firefox...... how lucky.,.

The annoying video is back, I had to re-enable that plugin that turns the video off otherwise City Index doesn't work. I'll therefore be logged out of MAM for most of the day.

6527.3 gone long

long 6537.2

Closed 6550.2 + 13

Just closed a FTSE short +20.

7 reds in a row on the 10 minute.

I think everyone has gone away into hiding because of that bl**dy video ad!
Quite right too as it seems to resurrect itself all of the time. Mute button very welcome!

Long FTSE @6508.4

TT - I still haven't had the pleasure!