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

they say indexes entering bear maket.. fear is a powerful tool.. its like the world could get worst by 20% in a few days..nonsense

yes but perhaps the world was overpriced by 20% t!

There are some very good yields now available - for the brave!

VOD for example, but that too has not escaped

Even BT.A which goes ex-divi tomorrow.

Yes - looking at that one again - bought some more RSA this morning - also ex tomorrow.

RBS 5 bob a share.

Guys and Dolls.....AFR might be worth a punt.....even if it drops further, a rebound above what it is today has to be in the running....

skinny, just bought some @ 24.83 for a laugh, just under 5 bob :-)

I remember them being my favourite day trade at 20+ (5) in new money.

a sudden and very strong (and welcome) recovery across the board, but have checked and there is no new to support same, so prob just bear covering - keep a weather eye open

now then, now then, now then ...... don't let's get too carried away with ourselves, though it is indeed many a long day since all bar one of my stocks was blue - odd one out was VOD ...... dow reaction after Bernake's speech will be the thing to watch

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i like the dow reaction to bernanke's speech .... after the initial and expected drop, a decent recovery as the brains get back into gear

wow!... and back through the level of 11160 which i am told is/was the critical number ..... another good day in prospect; and when could we last say that?

DOW UP 429points Thats worth a wow.

they're all effin lunatics in my considered view!

DOW futures starting to slip into negative territory which would imply either profit taking or poor inventory data at 15.00 hrs.

neither necessarily ..... perhaps just a bit of hesitation at 11160 level ..... closed my long of last night at a decent profit for the outlay

Here we go again.