The FTSE is up strongly this Thursday but trading the index over the past year would not have brought you strong returns. In fact, it's lost more than 6 percent in that time and we've seen big fluctuations in recent months. So what are the charts telling us about how you could be trading the index in the days to come?
Mark Sturdy, the Editor of Seven Days Ahead, has been carrying out that technical analysis. He says the failure to hold 7,000 on three occasions is a big long-term worry. He also says a bear case would be confirmed if 6,000 is convincingly broken.