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 have shares in YULC, but even with their global reach, don't seem to be going anywhere atm.

a chirpy look to wall street should augur well for london tomorrow ..... if so, let's hope it remembers to mark up sharply the shares in my portfolio!

she aint sung yet cynic, but i do wish that your hope will be fulfilled.
regards
jkd

Mega grim day for anyone long. I wonder if it may now be better to take profit as and when available and to sit on cash until QE11 is out of the way, interest rates start to kick up and the usual pick up in trades in september approaches? Or just sit in stocks which pay good divis?

it was a bit bleak earlier, but is now turning into quite a reasonable day after all

you must be talking about the weather.,.

I assumed his comment was pre & post lunchtime tipple! ;o)

nope ..... just coming up to close of play and portfolio is only marginally down on the day

Bao and rrr have made it blue through the day.......that'll buy a pint tonight.,.

so did RIO and BLNX

your buying then.,.

already held them and BAO

For me - MKLW IAG SUN VOD & COST.

On edit & SOLO

encouraging start to wall street today - up about 35 at 12594 at time of writing

Looks like DOW is going to drag us down from what was a reasonable morning.

for myself, a good day with a romp by BLNX and good solid gains by AFR, VOD, MRW and GKP

I'vd had an excellent day - best of which was selling a long term holding in AV and buying it back 9p cheaper (2nd time this week).

Well, if the DOW slides back to 485 might be worth a risky long. See if it gets there and with what impetus.

nope, forget it

Amazing that the DOW is now so high and we are not really out of the difficult times yet. Assuming the markets slowly recover over the next few years, the index looks likely to go way past the 2007 high.