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

Ah right fair enough CD.

Right chaps what's occurring?

It's up just but have a feeling it won't last.

Then it's time you got out of bed Stan.
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with republican preliminaries in iowa today with the possibility of that maniac trump leading the pack, and nothing positive to offset, DOW could retrench quite sharply

anyway, have taken a punt and shorted at 16,395

Gone short on the Fts as well.

Where's Jimbo this morning?

I'm here .

OK Just checking.. stand easy.

FTSE can't make up it's mind .

And not for the 1st time.

closed 1/2 DOW short at 16,300 :-)

A 1/2?.. they used to call him indecisive but..

50% muppet-man .... far too subtle for you, but wanted to tuck away some good profit

That's more like it DJ is now up approx 35
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confess i'm amazed, though with the way the markets have been behaving, perhaps i shouldn't be

Missed out today. Should have taken out more points than I did. Got a bit cautious.

DOW
had a further dabble shorting yesterday evening but was nowhere near brave enough to leave running o'night, so took paltry profits ...... of course, hindsight shows i should have clenched my buttocks and held on :-)

That last sentence ,i hope you don't do that often ..