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

like wot i sed last night ..... index has surged through both 25+50 dma
shall now watch for when to cash in

out at 6912.8 ..... fiscal year off to great start :-)

Have you turned in to one of those seaside kids with the pseudo Jamaican accents :)

wot i rote is more millwall than brixton

I'm talkin about those white kids that speak a mixture of cockney and Jamaican and call the police the Fed's but they come from Kingston Upon Thames not Kingston Jamaica where they would crap themselves and run a mile .

an excellent day at the ranch :-)

watch DOW to see if it can crack through 18,000 again
if it manages it, and with some impetus, then it could be onwards to 18,200

keep that greed under a tight rein!

Manuel,

Are you suggesting that you are going vote Labour then?

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BG Bid put added fuel to the fire this morning. Was expecting a bit of profit taking. Waiting for an opportunity to go short.

FTSE looks overblown to me can't keep going up especially with the election on the way ,should be some volatility

i agree, though i already placed a small short a bit early ...... i may well incresae this in due course, but the timing is tricky, not least because FTSE is so o'loaded with oilies

in many ways, FTSE 250 might be a better target, but certainly on CFDs, the spread is a bit hefty

DOW
after several attempts, it looks that 18,000 may at last have been breached (once more!) with impetus ..... if so, watch for 18,200+ ...... 18,278 is all time high

cynic - the highest intraday and close was 18288.63 on 02/03/2015.

FTSE closing in on 7100.

thanks skinny .... obviously misread my chart

FTSE
as you almost observe, FTSE has surged to an all time high ..... looks nuts to me and may add to my small short here in due course

FWIW I'm short @7085.1.

i did so prematurely at 7,008 but have plenty of room to add without scaring myself

meanwhile, my dow long has done far more than compensate

Shot myself in the foot today.

Got FTSE 100 WRONG

out of DOW long at 18,044 for a decent profit

cynic - 10 Apr 2015 16:27 - 17677 of 17683 edit this post

DOW
after several attempts, it looks that 18,000 may at last have been breached (once more!) with impetus ..... if so, watch for 18,200+ ...... 18,278 is all time high

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after some stuttering and dithering, DOW is now walking or perhaps jogging towards 18,200

FTSE 100 ?
7200?

Interesting angle on the Greek problem. Sometimes the bookies are pretty shrewd in forecasting events:
"Bookmakers William Hill have closed their markets on whether Greece will leave the Eurozone during 2015 and on which country would be first to leave the Eurozone.

‘Greece had been heavily backed down ro 1/5 to be the first to quit the Eurozone, and we’d also been shortening the odds for Greece to leave during 2015. They’d come down from 5/1 to 3/1.’ said William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe, ‘It is now looking increasingly likely that they could begin the process of departing very shortly’

‘Noone is interested in backing Greece to stay in the Eurozone until the end of the year, so we decided to pull the plug on the markets until either the decision to leave is taken, or the crisis point passes and a plan is put in place enabling the country to remain in’ added Sharpe."