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'm currently running a small DAX short which is now in the money
given the unpredictability of the markets, i have resisted the temptation to be brave (greedy!)

You would think it's time for the DOW/FTSE

may be tempted into DOW short a little later, but it has performed incredibly strongly of late
currently down just 5

i reckon the markets could now become very rocky as yet again there are reports of severe downturn in the economy(ies)

however, read ST for interesting and positive articles on GKP and also CVR

Dow stalled around 18500 for past few sessıons. Thought a bıt of profıt takıng mıght thave taken place.

Dow Broken out hıgher agaın on futures.

FTSE has broken north into interesting higher ground
DAX is now teasing an upwards resistance ...... glad is closed my very small short last night for a small profit, but wasn't brave enough to reverse at that time

DOW + GOLD
keep an eye on the pair of these
GOLD is once more challenging $1322 while in the other direction DOW is peeking at 18,555

these two are likely to move in tandem, but of course in opposite directions

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16:45
told you so :-)

Fırst Short for what seems lıke ages today. In clover.

good on you girl .... remember not to get too greedy, says the fathead

Still surprised it's as high as it is ..

I opened a FTSE short this afternoon ,will hold over the weekend see if we get a knock back on Sunday evening .

Jimmy I think they are going to the sky's. Both the Dow and Ftse, anyone would think that their inside information was that Isis has shorted the Dow, so two fingers to them. Honestly you couldn't make it up! :0)

I'm still short FTSE ,nothing going on .

Looks like a belated summer doldrums. September things should become more active when traders are back from holiday. Volumes on many stocks which I follow are very low atm.

Closed FTSE short for 30 pts .

should have let it run as DOW is starting to look very shaky

Maybe ,but i held it over the weekend which costs , however if it tries to breach 6750 again and wobbles i'll have another go .

We can all see 18460 ıs the lıne ın the sand for Dow.

No trades runnıng. Lookıng to short ıf we get a some real news.