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

The market's driven by algorithms, Cyners. They're fast, they're slick, and one rather large, well known bank went so far as to dig up half of Wall Street so they could lay their own fiber optic cabling straight to their servers right alongside the exchange's servers, and get in and out of the market ahead of the competition.

You ain't ever gonna beat them, so you may as well join them.

:o)

That's going to cost cynic a fortune laying fiber optics from his place to Wall St .

He'll have to double his tenant's rent then James. :o)

I might chip in half with him if the trades are that good .

i'm not sure which is worse, my golf or my trading, but thank goodness i don't have to make a living from either :-)

quill and parchment worked and i'm very happy to have just banked 103 points

ha ha jimmy 18448 - gonna order me several thousand miles of fibre optic and some submarine repeaters!!
china has really caused so much uncertainty - may get some bounces but cant see any lasting for the next few days..................... the last cat was made of jelly!

cynic - you must be using high quality parchment there sir!

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good old peaks.................... and troughs

china share up on US rebound...................

gla

good result yesterday evening ......

this morning lucky alphonse really pushed his luck ..... fat fingers o'bought .... by the time he realised 5 minutes later, he'd made a very tasty profit and banked it :-)

FTSE
has just about pushed through 6,100 which is very good news, especially if it can hold that going into w/e


DOW
cash only at this time, but that shows a surge through 16,400+ which again is comfortable through an important potential resistance

off out for a few hours so have deemed it prudent to bank all FTSE profit and half DOW as both are close to quite important resistances

numbers due from US today will almost certainly determine whether or not this run will at least pause for breath before w/e

sensible and well done chap - tomorrow will be interesting indeed

All days gone in an hour.

indeed .... dow falling away quite sharply, so of course ftse is tottering along behind ..... fortunately i have been pretty sensible for once and banked plenty, buying and selling some positions but also holding something quite modest

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