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

Never seen it myself!

Short @6577

6589 ftse long closed +61.7

Well done Shortie - for some reason, I thought that you had gone short yesterday.

I was presented with three get out of jail with a small profit earlier - but took none!

I was running a big loss from last week and closed at a profit just now , i should watch what you two do .
Here's a question why don't you stay in FTSE trade's over several days when it's down,, ,for instance earlier this month it was 6850, yesterday it was 6515 ,if it starts to bounce back it can put on 2 or 3 hundred points ??

This is why I've been reluctant to hold long positions recently.

Do you mean carry a loss Jimmy and wait for it to turn into a profit?

Skinny, I should have exited yesterday but missed the boat as was away from my screen.

The video has gone!!

On edit, no its still there. Shockwave flash was disabled... Right I better come log out of MAM so I can run CityIndex with flash.

No Shortie i mean over a period of days or even a week or two (like holding a stock) you could hold a FTSE trade ,it may go up and down but in good times may put on a couple hundred points ?

Should have been Cillit Bang skinny.

I often let FTSE positions run - just reluctant to hold a long atm.

Sometimes I do Jimmy, but only if I'm in profit e.g. letting them run. Wouldn't do it on the off chance of recovering a loss. Right now though was theres alot of direction I'm only after small runs, but am prepared to stake high!

Ok thanks to both of you.

We've all carried losses in certain situations, you may short off 1st resistence knowing that 2nd resistence places you at say -30 points... It really depends, have a strategy, exit and try to stick to it.

6588 gone short

Rocky - 22 Mar 2014 03:46 - 14956 of 14995

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.

-----------------------------------------------------------

midkinight try either of these depending on what browser you use , the best bit is your usage will actually go down from before the annoying ads were put on here ..
The moral to this story is the advertisers by annoying you now get nothing i dont see any on any site ,my usage is down by a third :)

It would seem that my avast security is blocking ad ware, maybe thats why i haven't seen it. I use the free avast too, very good.,.