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

Just made a small fortune short then long off the 5 minute..

Watching the FTSE, awaiting direction, Skinny are you playing the minute charts too?

Well done Shortie.

6273.5 small long

Want to get another big bet on but awaiting the cross first...

6280 profit taken

6258.5 small long

Come on FTSE, show me the cross....

10% gone in less than a month.

Needs to close above 6240 to keep my above chart in play, if so I'd expect a bounce up tomorrow.... We shall see..

It's the end of the world i'm telling you !!!

Anyone want to buy one ???

Nope but I'm looking to go long in gold...

DOW still going down ,maybe under 16000 ?

f****
so glad i decided to play golf this afternoon :-(

A good walk spoiled as Churchill said .

it wasn't spoiled until i came in and checked in :-)
all was looking quite reasonable when i left the office

i'm hoping without great conviction that 16,000 (dow) will provide some much needed support