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

going long ftse this morning was at least an easy call ...... stacks of dosh to be made last night on dow if you were alert enough and called the right direction - but glad i wasn't involved!

What is a BSD?

FIIK!

SC
maybe BIG SWINGING something or other.;-) or it might be related to BFG.
just a suggestion. CBW (could be wrong)
regards
jkd

perhaps 'he' is just dyslexic as well

:-)

Merkel wants to ban short selling

lol

pretty gruesome day in USA which is dragging down London heavily for the morrow .... just hope that does not presage poor news from RKH; that really would cheer me (not!)

Naked shorting banned in Germany, to take effect immediately. Suspect many other European countries will follow suit. Hedge funds (80% of which are U.K. based) due to take a hit maybe adding to FTSE decline?

brutal day in prospect tomorrow

Futures down 100 ,the markets are getting quite boring these days ,,,,bit like that woman on Katherine Tate who jumps and screams at the slightest noise .

boring??? it's precisely what we want as traders isn't it?

quite tempting to go long ftse, but not sure i dare as i think there'll be a lot of forced closing this morning

all pretty gruesome as was almost inevitable ..... though i am not sure that pretty is quite a suitable word, it could have been much worse

while i was packing, i see all suddenly collapsed in a heap

Packing??? Off to the Falklands to do a bit of research for all of us???

kiev for a very specialised conference on cryogenic gases

does that mean you are a lorry driver for BOC ?
:-)

BOC no longer exists ..... it was taken over about 2 years by Linde Gas, one of the 5 major airgas producers

It still exists all right
but yes, it is part of Linde

but I knew that

hmm! Linde might not agree though to be honest, they trade under a variety of names depending on location and customer custom