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

Hhhhhmmmmm..

tempting to short dow before tomorrow's employment numbers

Still Tempted cynic?

All depends on your risk i suppose, I'm tempted to short but carrying risk here already, now if I wasn't!!

Profit taking or Holiday euphoria today.

Got no idea!!!!!!!!!

CD - just watching to short at the moment

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seems disinclined to charge forward so small short at 16989.4

Fully exited Wall St yesterday and took a loss.

I'm a masochist and didn't

on the other hand, I did bank a moderate profit on C+M Index this morning, since when it has fallen a further 30 points

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Well we can't take profits all the time, could have staying in and waited for it to fall but I figured be easier and less risky to cut me losses and trade elsewhere. Still short of the FTSE mind and may well have a punt on the DAX next week...

very glad I dumped lot of uk long stuff this morning but kept all dow shorts running

Long FTSE @6,764.6.

Long already Skinny!

I've been watering the allotment - otherwise I would have been long @6,772 - so saved a few pints (sic) there!

1.1 points tomorrow.

Whoops!

you should have stayed even longer at the allotment :-)

Hmmm - looks that way!

6736 gone long

should have stayed short