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

have been in dieppe for as couple of days on biz, but back tomorrow afternoon
off cycling for a week at end august, this year's circuit being around moulins

I closed an overnight FTSE short earlier and have closed a FTSE & DAX long - all in profit.

Nothing much now until this afternoon - all a bit zzzzzzzz atm.

Action is all in Sterling

16220 - i was talking bollocks as usual .... don't know where i got that silly "hurdle" number from

No neither did I. But then again it is you.

never mind, for meanwhile i have been successfully trading in small tranches both dow and C+M Index

You Silly Billy.

would only be a silly billy if i did not regularly realise the profits

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have managed to remain disciplined and taken a modest profit today on C+M Index (long) and ditto but rather more on dow
have now reversed dow at 16825.4 which i shall allow to run o'night, though with a stop in place just in case

Dow Still grinding higher.

Short FTSE @6782.7.

Tempted on DAX @9339.

I got a FTSE short running @ 6758, watching the DAX for now but fancy a long position over short.

I was tempted to short it - but haven't.

Still quite a divergence.

Keep your eye on this also.

I was tempted on TSLA yesterday, but again - didn't!

Short FTSE and DOW

Long DAX @9314.7.