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

don't care ..... my new positions are all in profit

markets don't seem to be going anywhere, so banked an adequate profit on DOW long but have left FTSE one to run

watching S&P to see if it can at last break north of 2060

Dow flat.

FTSE, DAX, DOW and S&P are all hovering around interesting resistance levels

i've now encashed my FTSE long and shall watch and await developments ..... hope to keep twitchy fingers still!

all interesting stuff while i was out this afternoon
must check what caught the attention of DOW

Rising Oil prices according to this http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=5347632

stunning new house building numbers in usa i read

however, this must make a rate rise in usa ever more imminent, so i wonder if there will now be a bit of consolidation or even indigestion

shame i encashed my index longs far too early, but never mind

Dow at the upper level of downward channel sınce for past few weeks. Undecıded ıf ıts shortıng tıme agaın!!!

Indıces ground to a halt.

I think it's going to be very hard to call before the referendum .

True - The panıc wıll re-emerge once a poll nearer the date, ındıcates the vote ıs closer than the manıpulated ones now on offer.

I agree which is why i have stopped trying to trade anything at the moment ,it's hard enough without this looming.

Yellen speaks at 6.15 tonight I believe.

The head of the US Federal Reserve said on Friday that a rate rise would probably be appropriate in “coming months” if the US economy continued to improve, in the strongest signal yet that the central bank could tighten monetary policy this summer.

DOW
now tumbling sharply and through first support of 17,845 ...... 17,800 is next stop if no recovery


FTSE
still holding above 6,250 but one must ask for how long if DOW is falling sharply and the referendum fast approaches

PMI prınt below 50 yesterday ın US. Not a good sıgn.

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FTSE
closed just below the important support/resistance of 6205, so banked a modest profit on that short


DOW
currently 17,786 which is very much betwixt and between
watch for a close or sharp move either below 17,740 or above 17,810

Edging hıgher agaın.