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

dow
banked nice profits on 2 from 3 short positions

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and now clear of all

i can't believe yellen will come up with anything that will frighten the markets, so another yo-yo session ahead

dow
small long at 16450

Small long DOW @16,359.9

Fed Chair Janet Yellen gives testimony to Joint Economic Committee

you were brighter than me skinny, but i'll just sit tight :-)

Just closed +40 - if she says "Geo political" or "normalisation" one more time.......

i've actually done rather well with dow over the last couple of days .... would that it was always thus

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also out at +54 and shall now contemplate as to whether it's worth the risk to short as i shan't be glued to the screen

also interested to see TSLA's results after the bell - i currently have a small long there, but it's currently out of the money

primarily on the basis that as dow is no longer improving, it is much more likely to fall back, i now have a small short at 16502

A hanging man yesterday - although after Tuesdays's fall, its not strictly in an uptrend??

TSLA
glad my holding is :-( small .... what a walloping

Electric cars ,just don't cut the mustard yet.

The wires are a trip hazard to pedestrians.

Short FTSE @6,829.5

Boring day. Still think the Ftse will hit 6870 today/tomorrow so the wait is on. Cable not doing anything either.

Everything i'm in is boring zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Lol. How'd that happen? I'm hoping for a typical May, sell sell sell and go away. What a shit day too. I think Dow will test 16600 this afternoon then fall away 50 -70 pts.

i'm still short dow from yesterday evening .... it's about 20 points out of the money, but neither here nor there

I've added Tesla chart and website to this thread

Tempted to short the DOW 16610 right now and looking like it could push higher again... Hmmmm

I closed earlier +25 and am looking for a break of 6,860 to look again.