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

Re GBP/EUR - this news from Reuters:

"The Bank of England will next week announce plans to swap 50 billion pounds ($99.8 billion) of government bonds for UK bank mortgages in an effort to break a lending squeeze gripping the home loan market, the BBC said on Friday . . .
A debt swap scheme, similar to one the United States announced last month, could make banks more willing to lend to each other at lower rates and could ultimately mean the BoE may not have to cut interest rates as aggressively as markets have been betting on." [my italics]

I reckon that would mean GBP rising against EUR - the Euro is in any case being talked about as too strong against other currencies.

reasonable supposition Ms T, especially if the tide (sentiment) is turning against Euro and/or more pro-

How nice to see you agreeing with me Cynic!

too scared of being soundly spanked if i do not!

Right...you've tempted me..I like the sound of Cynic's proposition = "I'll disagree with Toya" (only joking !).

You guys had better watch out! - Actually I was scared of pronouncing my female logic, knowing the kind of threats made against it here! Fear of spanked bottoms all round then...

does that include you? ..... or do you like being trussed up at the same time as well?

Trussed up? - I'm no chicken!

you said it, not i!
but how do you feel about the stuffing, with/without string(s)?

Prefer no strings attached Cynic

but the stuffing acceptable i assume - lol!

I particularly like the stuffing!

cynic any view on emed ? be nice

yes: 'nough of this nonsense: what's the ftse going to do next?

Yes, 'nough of this nonsense. What's the FTSE going to do next?

is this thread working?

test

toya,

re your report on the bugs thread - this seems to be working ok, can you let me know if you see any more problems and we will take a look at this end.

Ian

Edit - I can see the minus posts read, James is taking a look.

Thanks Ian - I noticed this one packed up last night, and has before as I reported last week; but don't know about any others.

Toya,

It is just this thread - James is going to take a look into it for you.

Ian