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

add to charts dropdown next to chart time then its on the drawing toolbar

Shortie - Spreads seem a lot wider for stocks on City. Quarterly contract for BVIC was 15 pips this morning compared to Cap Spreads just under 3. If I decide to fund it probably like you just use for Indeces. This is just first glance observation will take a proper look over holiday. Cheers.

Was that out of hours trading Chris? Showing as the below on mine now.. Margin showing as 15% on City another factor.

No I read it wrong Shortie my fault. Cap Spreads BVIC MAR 264.7 - 265.7 big difference.

about the same as for IG CFDs, though quite often that tightens to 0.50p

AT 265.7 I'd buy a million!

Talking crap ignore that last post 656.68 - 660.31 wee bit tighter.

just bought back into ftse long at 6440.8
just need to remember not to get either greedy or precious

Before you buy a million Skinny and we have to call you Fatty read this.. :-)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/13858bea-7581-11e4-b1bf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3MAbTw4Ar

I think I posted their results on the 26th, but if I could buy a million @265.7....

just taken 30 points on my "worst" dow long, so quite happy about that

DOWs overbought, I think it'll fall and pull the FTSE down this afternoon.

with the markets this volatile, it's quite hard to judge what will happen - eg yesterday evening and this morning's surge

Just dumped a second DAX short -10 - looks like 9800 PDQ.

and closed the next dow long for +85, leaving just one block running from 17405

short dow @ 17, 574

and out of the last dow long at 17586 for +181

phew! .... to think they were all pretty badly hit just a couple of days back

Another assault on 6450.

FTSE has just gone into overbought territory on the 15 min, I'm now debating opening a position.

So is the DAX - there's 9800.