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

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.

Shortie if you are around, why would I get a red ticket saying

"Instruction processing has resulted in a Red Card. Please check details.

The Quantity entered exceeds the maximum allowed for the market."

I've tried reducing the number to 1 - on Connect CNCT.

Continuation line added but still trading the same format, high priced bets over a few points and reverse.

Skinny that message normally means your bet either is outside of the minimum/maximum allowed to trade online. If your definitely inside the scope check that you have enough to cover the margin and try again. I've had that message before and tried again and its gone through.

dow short closed at 17764.4 - profit of 73.6 points; thank you very much :-)

Enough margin and tried size 1 - it won't accept a trade or order - very strange and I've tried several times.

What's your price tolerance set to?

Give them a ring before the market gets away from you skinny.

Erm Shortie where the F is that set?

GF - this is on the demo account - I'm just playing with the functionality - or not!

See post 17167, click in the 'i' then at the bottom, I leave mine at 2

Try again looks like they've just changed the bets on it

I don't see that list of options, I get this :-