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

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 ..

Another bad day. Off back down again.

:-)
or at least as far as my remaining DOW position is concerned

In profit for the day, but i always want the dam thing to go up for the feel good factor. Going out for a time with nothing running. Where too come close in UK?

Not looking too good is it, unless your short of course.
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Not too pretty

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was short DOW but closed before take-off
took about 85 points but clearly would/could have been far more
nevertheless, not to be sneezed at

anything particular upset the markets?

if DOW drops close to 16,100 shall go long

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bugger
got distracted when dipped to 16,109 and missed

Big sell off yesterday. Now totally undecided.

I went short this morning and just watching now.

Early morning promise gone in blink. Thought we might have an up day. :(