#Gold #Japan A daft thing to become annoyed about, fairly regularly, are the clickbait stories issued by the MetOffice. The print media positively salivate over each press release, using them to produce the most inaccurate headline stories, knowing if it turns out to be the usual utter rubbish, folk will just blame the weather forecasters. Scrolling through Google & Yahoo News today, we picked up a couple of tales for March weather which seem to slightly contradict each other. Due to us starting Wednesday with blue skies and -3c temperatures, we’re not inclined to believe a ‘Spanish plume’ is coming. To be honest, while Paul Simon once sung “Get All The News I Need from the Weather Report” in the tune ‘The Only Living Boy in New York’, we’re getting to the stage of trying to filter the term “MetOffice” from news reports, joining the BBC & Sky in our list of untrusted sources when referring to the UK.. Nowadays, we’re finding the Dutch, German, even Irish, media tends report what’s happening in the UK without obvious bias and better still, they don’t give weather reports.
Headlines; 19th March 2025 via Yahoo News!
A visit to FirstGroup Wikipedia page proved somewhat discouraging, the company appearing to enjoy a very vanilla background without any decent scandals. Generally, to be involved in public transport in Scotland generally produces some great conspiracy theories but for FirstGroup, they appear quite clean. It was also quite a surprise to discover the company now own the world famous Greyhound company in the USA, along with Grey Goose in Canada. This quickly diluted an assumption FirstGroup were a FTSE250 who primarily focus on the UK’s third world rail service.
The company chart is on the edge of showing something seriously important, for those who study such things. It shows the company share price has exceeded the downtrend since 2009, a fairly credible trend and one which is probably making folk salivate. There’s an important problem at present, one worth paying a lot of attention to. The share price has not created a Higher High yet, creating a situation where a ‘so called’ chart breakout will often feel like it is fizzling. The ideal situation occurs, when a share price breaks a downtrend AND starts to trade higher than the previous point which defined that trend. This isn’t a secret, probably just too obvious and thus ignored, but if you want a fairly sane signal for a price movement, once FirstGroup closes above 188p or starts trading above 189p, there’s a reasonable chance the share price is about to head up.
In the case of FirstGroup, above 189p now points at the potential of a lift to 198 next with our secondary, if bettered, at 221p. Overall, such a scenario shall force us to accept a long term 239p as exerting an attraction.
Our alternate scenario allows for weakness below 148 to risk triggering reversals to an initial 127p with our longer term secondary, if broken, at 118p. For now, this doesn’t feel likely, gains appearing possible unless the share price tumbles below 170p.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 8:46:47PM | BRENT | 7062.6 | |||||||||
| 8:52:58PM | GOLD | 3045.77 | 3023 | 3011 | 2997 | 3032 | 3054 | 3058 | 3078 | 3037 | |
| 10:16:48PM | FTSE | 8711.9 | |||||||||
| 10:30:01PM | STOX50 | 5516.4 | Success | ||||||||
| 10:33:22PM | GERMANY | 23350.2 | Shambles | ||||||||
| 10:38:35PM | US500 | 5687.4 | |||||||||
| 10:41:53PM | DOW | 42041 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 10:46:09PM | NASDAQ | 19791 | |||||||||
| 10:48:54PM | JAPAN | 37904 | 37563 | 37437 | 37205 | 37777 | 38133 | 38344 | 38605 | 39018 | Shambles |
19/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8706 points. Change of 0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,202,916,969 a change of 4.34%
18/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8705 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,945,136,476 a change of 0.41%
17/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8680 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,920,651,803 a change of 10.88%
14/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8632 points. Change of 1.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,339,805,616 a change of -8.09%
13/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8542 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,809,805,582 a change of -17.07%
12/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8540 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,005,575,880 a change of -4.97%
11/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8496 points. Change of -1.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,372,262,809 a change of -3.66% 
SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.
Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION
Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.
UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.
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Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares
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