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

added small dow long at 16939.6
would hope to see bounce from this level towards 17,000 once again

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well that didn't last long!
limited out at 16990 while i walked home from the office!

wish it was always that quick and easy to knock out a 50 point profit

Have a look what we have in mind :

http://uk.communifin.com

dr9980 - please take yourself away before you get banned

BT UPDATE

http://uk.communifin.com/group/bt-group

Cheers dr9980 very informative, Ive saved you to my favourites. Please keep them coming. Excelent snippets.

dr9980 - things like your bt update should go on the BT thread, not this one

Small quick plays today I think on the FTSE.

am very glad indeed that i banked nice little profits on both ftse and dow yesterday, though i still have a long dow running

BT is a FTSE company!!!!!!!

Maybe so but all he's doing is advertising his own site for free here.. I don't mind one or two links but this person looks desperate with all the new threads and links put up on MAM this morning.

exactly so - it's blatant advertising and nothing else
he needs to be got rid of

Well we should blame management for that Shortie Ive often said that this site needs moderating but it always falls on deaf ears. In fact Ive been saying it for years.

Just look at the Football thread and the chart thread both trashed at the weekend by two established posters, now if established posters are doing that what chance do we have against floating itinerants who move freely about the net and post at will.

None at all.

Join me, inform Ian better still inform the big cheese Mike B.

dr9980 is clearly going to be a total pain and nuisance, so have used the simple expedient of squelching him

js8106455 also does the same but at least he has the sense to do it in small doses, without being intrusive. Of course, don't click on their links and they will soon get fed up!

Cynic it takes 2 to tango, dont forget.

gf - Maybe you should look in the mirror and moderate yourself more? If you persist in making derogatory remarks about posters who would appear (in your eyes) to have the audacity to disagree with you. Then it is you, and you alone who are responsible for the demise of any thread.

As to the two threads you refer to as being trashed (in your opinion) Chart Thread and Football Thread I rest my case.

In fact it s seems strange that you are getting so hot and bothered about a thread being trashed here whilst not giving a dam yesterday.

Double standards springs to mind.

Yes all use the filter button I am going to.

I totally agree with your comments Chris and this bulletin board is moderated.

Plain to see that you trashed the Threads Carson. You and your mate doodle bug the latter. It was obvious to anyone that both of you were intoxicated.

The vile language that came from you.

Take it elsewhere not here.

I have you both filtered now.

Good! Ditto.