#Brent #SP500 It was Mrs T&T’s turn to choose the movie for the weekend and she opted to play fairly safe by going for a documentary about a popular UK singer. Unfortunately, last time she did this, Elton Johns movie was selected, a film we abandoned before the end. An expectation I’d enjoy the film “Better Man”, a homage to the greatness which is Robbie Williams, was going to be an obvious mistake. Within the first minute, the realisation the star was being played by a CGI Chimpanzee led to an anxious glance at our wine glasses, hoping an excuse could be given to leave the room.
However, 10 minutes later, the fact Robbie Williams was being played by a monkey vanished from notice as the story started to fascinate and two hours thirty minutes later, the only reason for regrets related to the members of the singing group Take That as they didn’t come through the experience with any credibility. It certainly appears Robbie Williams hasn’t retained any great fondness for Garry Barlow, Williams experiencing a solo career which seemed to knock everything which went before into the gutter. In terms of worth watching, this certainly joins the Queen movie, that alternative world Beatles movie, as worth an evening. Unlike that Elton John nonsense where, apparently Elton asked his pal Rod Stewart to be honest in his opinion of his biopic. It is said they haven’t spoken since Rod gave his opinion!
Of course, this film review is essentially due to very little interesting actually happening with Lloyds Bank in the last three weeks and – unsurprisingly – the Chinese GP being pretty boring, the best action happening once the race was completed when the Ferrari team were disqualified for cheating. Historically, generally the first race of a new season overloads with mistakes, the second race overloading with cautious driving. Hopefully Japan in two weeks shall provide proper racing.
When we reviewed Lloyds three weeks ago, we gave 73.5p as a reasonable level for the share price to close above, ideally triggering proper movement, just like we suspect Japan shall provide proper F1 racing. I chasing day trade positions, it’s visually possible intraday movement above 74.46 should give a sane trigger level for those anxious to get into the game of chasing a retail bank recovery. It’s now the case where, from a relatively near term perspective, above 74.46 could easily implement movement to an initial 78.3p with our secondary, if bettered, at 81.5p. Our more “safe” scenario demands the price close a day above 73.5p to confirm entry into such a cycle but, as this is also more of a Big Picture thing, it also includes a distant sounding 123p as a realistic ambition.
In the contrary event, should Lloyds share price decide to give the market a scare, below 68p suggests coming weakness to 65.3p with our secondary, if broken, a hopeful bottom at 62.3p.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop |
| 10:15:09PM | BRENT | 7167.8 | 7025 | 6963 | 6878 | 7117 | 7222 | 7256 | 7397 | 7118 |
| 10:17:30PM | GOLD | 3024.19 | ||||||||
| 10:19:18PM | FTSE | 8662.2 | ||||||||
| 10:26:21PM | STOX50 | 5430.3 | ||||||||
| 10:29:04PM | GERMANY | 22960.1 | ||||||||
| 10:30:55PM | US500 | 5697.1 | 5601 | 5553 | 5498 | 5638 | 5718 | 5749 | 5798 | 5674 |
| 10:33:51PM | DOW | 42171.4 | ||||||||
| 10:35:31PM | NASDAQ | 19871.3 | ||||||||
| 10:37:28PM | JAPAN | 37794 |
21/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8646 points. Change of -0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 17,319,068,122 a change of 126.14%
20/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8702 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,658,434,671 a change of 23.47%
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% 
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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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra Close Mid-Price: 299.2 Percentage Change: -3.48% Day High: 307.9 Day Low: 298.4
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LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group Close Mid-Price: 8364 Percentage Change: -2.45% Day High: 8466 Day Low: 8200
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LSE:SRP Serco Close Mid-Price: 159.5 Percentage Change: -0.50% Day High: 162 Day Low: 157.8
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