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

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.....

Yep lads, kicked it into touch. Cant be assed. Enjoying working at the local community centre.

Fantastic to get back out into the real world.

6178.3 gone long

dow may be worth looking at if it dumps as low as 17,000 - which is far from impossible

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whoops!
i see dow dropped as low as 17035 which i missed entirely as was down at the gym .... has now recovered nearly all

Cynic I've just spent the last few days analysing the FTSE to trade, haven't the time to properly do the DOW as well right now.

6214.5 position closed +36.2