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

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.

what have you done to St Thomas More - aka fred?

now work out the connection :-)

More like whats the connection between you and the 15th century more like -):

I have generously given Fred some (much deserved) time off after his great informative, intelligent and most useful posts on here.

LOL!! Good one Stan joke of the day :0)

I aim to please CC.

Aye that's what Fred's told me.... wink

That's proper funny Stan ,i can't breathe !!

Down or up today chaps?

Utopia is the link stan

That's not a word I have come across Alfred, what is "your' definition of said word?

right chaps; time to transfer this jolly exchange to the NOWT thread where it belongs