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

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 :-

Still the same - don't worry Shortie - I'm sure we both have more productive things to do right now.

Actually I've just seen max long and max short size are both 0.

So you can't trade it with a demo account then

Looks that way - how stupid is that!

Seams Odd, wonder why they do that..
Have to say though I've only ever used them to trade a handful of companies either on DFT or Future, never had any problems but the vast majority of trades I make are indices or FX.

sell sell sell Shortie ...........quick youve taken your mind off the market.

GF I'll be selling again soon enough no doubt!

No no no Shortie buy buy buy now.