Hi Ian, Thanks for that and fair comment. The markets are volatile at the moment with QE2 and the usual high impact news data. Essentially then this means your positions have to be carefully monitored and the set and forget methods, to me anyway, are dead in the water. Take this am for instance, why place a trade before the numbers @9.30am., Same Monday , a lot went short Ftse prior to the date-index goes north. Anyway Ftse and Dax best left alone after midday-Dow is gang leader pm.