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

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?

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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

Thanks Ian,
Toya

Glad you sorted that Toya I was beginning to think it was because I posted the same message 9 times!

I am a little surprised to see no momentum today - I would have thought that the FTSE would have traded up this morning after the strong finish by the dow and support from the Hang Seng etal.

Actually looks like Ftse will slip away this afternoon - but guess that will depend on how the dow opens.

No positions atm

DOW currently looking to open -33.
Banks down today, oil producers up, but no strong direction yet.

Just closed a short for a small gain.

FTSE feels negative with slight correction from Friday, but wanted to close position before DOW opens.

Sidelined now unless we pass 6000.

watch Dow to see if it can hold above 12800 ..... indicator is currently hovering around that mark

12780 & 12750 my lines of support. 780 breached (ish) but trying to recover. Sitting on the sidelines at the moment

Considering shorting the DOW if it gets back to 12780, can't say I'm keen on going long in the face of this downtrend from Friday.

Right on the button, should have taken the trade LoL but watching a Eur/Jpy trade at the same time, so a missed opportunity. Incidentally that came right off a res/sup line in conjunction with a 14 period res on the RSI (10 minute chart).

Can't see any direction in FTSE today, it feels like it wants to go higher, but if in doubt do nowt.

Sidelined today.........unless something changes

Hi all, can someone please explain stamp duty, i thought it only applied to those in the ft100 index.
thanks.