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

time you lived south of the tundra :-)
very pleasantly warm here today, but a bit soggy under foot still
greens in fantastic condition all things considered

Yeah I know... it's grim up north -):

lol cynic ref prescient

so were you? :-)
mind you, if you were brave enough to leave your shorts running (so to speak), then you'll be doing very well

lol -i did well but not going to blow my own trumpet as i note some dont like my style which is simply to hope everyone including myself is doing well - which is fine if so as some strange beggars out there - difficult to call right now depending on ones strategy of course and expectancy - expect to see some end position squaring plus profit taking ahead of wed’s fed monetary policy announcement to underpin the mkt

A bit more of a sell off than I expected. If December turns out to be a bad month. Is this the top again. I am trying to see the positives for UK market in 2015.

Morning all, I'm long off 6204...

certainly the markets, after an up-and-down start look to be trying to head north ..... but then that looked to be the case yesterday, so i guess full attention and managed greed required again

UMM,

Tell you on Friday, which way it has gone!

Shortie, On what basis... charts?

Off this 30min, ignore the 6318.5 cross, that's just where my cursor was when I took the shot. 6243 upper cloud first resistance to push through then 6275 first target and where I'll close if all goes to plan.

Keeping an eye on those commodities also... looks to be topping off slightly sooner than planned right now.

6265.5 closed +61.5

Debating another long, knew it'd come back but back to upper edge of cloud to test quick support is abit overdoing it...

Thanks, looks a bit busy for me -):

Lol, it is, it's as busy as the markets are at any given time and then a little more as your trying to look ahead... Anyway that's me done now, might have a trade in this afternoons session once Wall St is up..

I thats right Shortie get them shorts closed.

Santa ain't coming this year GF !

GF I was long on this mornings one.....