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

Yes - 2 month low earlier and FTSE negative YTD again.

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All I need do again today is sit back and watch my shorts.

HFD & HWDN going well!

Everything indicies looking rather bliss right now...

Profits taken in FTSE, no remaining positions....

Going by the Historical Prices section of Yahoo! Finance, volume seems weak. Is this the correct picture?

+1 on your profits Shortie.

Cheers,
KidA

Pretty much yeah, with weakness showing in recent figures investors seam reluctant to add to positions favouring profit taking right now. Weak volumes as you say back up the sell off we're seeing. Some stock however appears to have sold off too heavily, JMAT a good example and should recover some of the recent weakness. With no direction showing in the FTSE there's little point in holding unrealised profits. No doubt this situation will change very soon. Wall St looks slightly different, I think the sell off will continue into next week, its worth searching out oversold stock right now for quick bounce back gains. If you can't be bothered then just follow other investors that are normally good at picking these out for tips.

2 FTSE shorts today - closed and now re-opened @6,734.

Cheers Shortie.

FTSE gone short 3637

Keeping an eye on this following weaker consensus data.

Shortie - I hope that's not the FTSE!

Ex-divs to take up to 1.27 points off FTSE 100 on July 2

LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) - The following FTSE 100 .FTSE companies will go ex-dividend on Wednesday, after which investors will no longer qualify for the latest dividend payout. According to Reuters calculations at current market prices, the effect of the resulting adjustment to prices by market-makers would take up to 1.27 points off the index. COMPANY (RIC) DIVIDEND ESTIMATED (pence) IMPACT Babcock International BAB.L 16.4 0.3227 British Land BLND.L 5.4 0.2162 Burberry BRBY.L 23.2 0.4068 Royal Mail RMG.L 13.3 0.3263 Among FTSE 250 .FTMC companies going ex-dividend are: COMPANY (RIC) DIVIDEND (pence) Brown (N) Group BWNG.L 8.56 Cranswick CWK.L 22.00 Dairy Crest DCG.L 15.40 De La Rue DLAR.L 28.20 Foreign & Colonial Investment FRCL.L 2.20 Trust Halfords Group HFD.L 9.10 Homeserve HSV.L 7.67 ICAP IAP.L 15.40 ITE Group ITE.L 2.50 Paragon Group PARA.L 3.00 TalkTalk TALK.L 8.00

6779.9 gone short on FTSE.

Not trading it but that's the third time today has bounced of 50DMA 10 min chart on Cap Spreads.

Short @6,790.8.

Just closed the HFD that I bought last week as a hedge tomorrow +13.4.

Still holding DCG (15.4p tomorrow).

I'm simply playing it off the upper trend line..