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

LOL skinny, good luck.

dow currently +300 at 17657
shame i closed my longs, but decent profits for all that
head-scratching time

You may have nits, Cynic you can get a special shampoo for that.

I suppose it could be that in the short term I made the wrong call :-)

I normally try to trade the last hour or so of the dow but was too late home. Shame to have missed the last 15 minutes :-(

Not too sure the Santa rally is here yet.

Could just be a 72 hour rally especially with the Greeks and Ruskys in a mess.

Glad its Friday tomorrow may help the bull case.

Dow up 700 pips in two days and GF not to sure Santa rally is here yet? HELLO!
If you spent less time speaking shite on Talk To Yourself Thread it may have become more apparent. Probably go tits up tomorrow :0)

what the hell happened....... all my stock is blue when I got home..... thank you santa:))

bloody hell; did i cash in too early or what!
oh well; never complain about a decent profit and think if you'd been on the wrong side

6513.8 small short

am certainly more inclined to short than go long again

One FTSE short this morning closed for +18 and smarting with that DAX short!

I've just done a couple of 10pt runs, on the FTSE.

Open a DAX short too, 9870

And also a Wall St short now aswell.. Small runs again today..

Nothing open currently, I'm just gonna continue to play this now until the trend breaks.

Closed DAX @9787.5 + 52.7

small dow short at 17838 ...... looking (hoping) for about 17760

Yeah I closed mine at a profit too along with Wall St. Buying off the base line and selling off the ceiling using multiple smaller bets at the moment.