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 post 19540, I haven't traded either of them for 4/5 years but IMT was definitely better then BAT to trade, the reason escapes me at the moment.. that's if there was one of course.

chuckle .... i bought BATS as sp was just nudging 200 dma (southwards) and i'm not looking to trade as they're in my sipp ...... anyway, 10p to the good so far :-)

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employment figures have been well enough received (whatever they were), but i also note that chinese futures are down again, putting that index back below 3,000

10p is that all, would have been 20 if it had been with IMT.. (listen to uncle Stan) and before you ask no I don't know the next lottery numbers -):

depends at what you price one managed to buy - chuckle :-)

This is true.

Here we go where to now ? this is starting to piss me off .

typical of these markets ..... DOW has dropped nearly 100 in the first 10 minutes of trading

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at least the cricket's pretty good to watch

if 16,100 breaks, which it is currently trying to do, then i guess 16,000 is next stop

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so bang on queue, it bounces 150 points in a blink

made a quick 35 points and was glad to escape

actually 200 point bounce in <20 minutes!

"at least the cricket's pretty good to watch" how would you know then, you crack on your working.. is this yet more evidence (if more were needed) that you are in fact ..still unemployable

What a weird market .

horribly quiet at the moment ...... working on a deal to west africa, but pretty much got that sorted ...... but have always been unemployable

Certainly moves about a bit.

"horribly quiet at the moment ...... working on a deal to west africa, but pretty much got that sorted ...... but have always been unemployable ".. Does your employer know this?

Footsie also coming back at last.

missed a good chance to short dow at 16,380ish
too nervous
it's a resistance/support and has challenged several time in the last 20, and fallen back each time

I've noticed that quite a few posters on here have the ability to move markets, RF; CC; myself and now Stan (post 565), problem is we send it in the opposite direction to our comment. lol
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I can move markets big GEORGE ,just buy the stock and down it goes !

Wall St ring me every morning to see what i'm buying today.

I forgot you also possess these qualities as well jimmy b. There's probably many others as well. Ha!Ha!
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Every turn of the year I'm amazed that one or all of us are not included in the New Years honours list.