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

Not before time :- Pair jailed over abusive tweets to feminist campaigner

Just closed all FTSE shorts and taken profits.. Best trading week this year yet!

Well done Shortie - pint? :-)

Nice one Shortie :O)

Thank you guys...

Still have open positions (long futures) GKP, TRK, UKCM, PKM, FTO (short) IMG only... Have a good weekend..

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lost my "dinner" back and rather more more last night, so very silly me :-(
if i'd paid attention, i would have shorted when 16020 was breached sharply, but that is still prob a good bet i'm afraid

Well done Shortie - R U expecting a bounce - or are you just takiing your profits off the table

place your bets FTSE down tomorrow?

that's surely a no-brainer initially - at least 60 points and then perhaps to 100 as forced selling takes place .... but after that, it'll be interesting

Well its recovered 80 points so far from its friday night low of 6535 - the open will be interesting - but I reckon it will continue to slowly recover.

BWTFDIK

Bhunt - A bit of both really, quite keen to cash in some profits and also take money off the table... Have a look at Skinnys daily chart above, FTSE has been bouncing off the 50dma line for some time now and the MACD triggers have become directionless.

Having a look at the 200.

looking at skinny's chart, the implication is that at least a bounce is imminent ..... except that most will be governed by the behaviour (position) of standard FTSE

What a "balls up" created by the Shadow Chancellor

I know he opens mouth to change feet quite regularly, but even he couldn't cause this correction fall.

An interesting view if you are looking at 3D.

3D Printing: Who's Got The Power

6569.5 gone long

i already hold DDD though it's a bit scary and there is an argument that it is currently o'bought .... however, there is no question that this is a very important development/concept for the near future