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

BoE base rate maintained at 0.25%.

DOW + DAX
both now tumbling fast .... am glad to be modestly short in both
perhaps this is the long overdue correction, triggered as so often, by nothing special

Trump's.

impeachment odds fall

Impeachment? Yes please, dollar falls gold goes up.

thanks to collapsing DOW and DAX i'm actually having quite a good day .... totally undeserved

Dollar down, Pence up?

crash, bang, wallop!
thank goodness i'm short of both DOW and DAX and increased same a little late this afternoon

be very careful if you are tempted to buy ..... though the markets opened surprisingly strongly, they look to be having second thoughts

Footsie short x3 opened yesterday.

Sorry about the above fat finger.

DOW - keep a weather eye open for 20,500 .... currently just 100 points further south

DOW
had a limit at 20,500 for part of my short
that has been hit, with a subsequent small bounce in progress

Out of short x3.

DOW/DAX
....500 is common to both
keep watching