So is this true or is this an ill-informed opinion? Well my view is that yes the volatility in todays markets actually throws up lots of short term trading prospects. You can go long and short through spread-betting companies or thru trading options and futures, and you can notch up huge gains ( and large losses ) in as little as one or two hours. Futures. Similarly a large amount of shares have been very sold off my retirement funds and hedge funds that has pushed these stocks far below their true valuation in a large amount of cases. We investigate Trends - Trend explains the endurance of costs to go in a certain direction over a certain time period. One thing more.