#FTSE #Gold In Argyll, we’re conditioned to call a summer day around 18c as perfect and this week, with daytime temperatures exceeding 25c has proven difficult. Thursday saw me break a covenant with myself, choosing to wear shorts and sandals while cowering indoors! Eventually, the animals making it clear they wanted to go for a swim, the pair of mutts were loaded into the car and the roof lowered. We drove half a mile along the road to “the point”, as isthmus of land along the road with a car park, giving access to the sea with the advantage any prevailing waves will hit either the East or West side of the beach, making the other side clear and calm.
The mutts spent an hour or so, swimming and diving for rocks, grudgingly returning to the car as their soaked coats made them impervious to the days heat. Which, of course, was the entire point of the exercise. Plus most dogs will sleep for 3 hours for every hour spent in water. This week, we’re a little overloaded with dogs, due to a neighbour enjoying a break at his Edinburgh house in the middle of an Edinburgh Festival month with good weather. His dog is even friendly with our unwanted cat, making it easy to offer a holiday home for the clown. The animals will even eat/drink from the same bowl at the same time, a truly odd cat & dog relationship which the cat would never dare with our own animals.
A harsh reality awaited around 8pm on Thursday. Discovering we were low on milk, a quick sprint to the local garage shop was needed. It transpires sandals/shorts/t-shirt don’t really work in a car with the roof down, once the sun has set and the Argyll temperature has plunged to 14c. Suffice to say, the audience at the local petrol station were entertained by the VW Eos digging its roof out of the boot and assembling all the bits, so the car looked like it was a hard top again. The process takes under 30 seconds but it wasn’t a surprise to see the insane little car was the centre of attention. Quite why VW no longer make them but then again, the Transformers movies use CGI to do what this mad car can enact in real life.
This is all designed to distract from the fact the FTSE has remained pretty boring this week, the car bought for the dogs proving more interesting than the UK index. However…
It looks like, should the FTSE manage to close above just 9187 points, a newer era should prove almost irresistible as market growth to an initial 9298 looks very possible with our secondary, if exceeded, a longer term 9733 points. Thanks to the UK index closing at 9177 points on Thursday, just 10 points short of our trigger level, we’re nervous providing a near term Long Position potential as things risk moving fast, especially if the Gremlins behind the curtain notice the index is right at the edge of a 500 point surge. Perhaps cynically, we do suspect some bad news shall emerge in coming days to slow things down, perhaps an announcement the UK Government has had a “good idea”.
Near term, currently below 9138 looks capable of triggering reversals to 9097 points with our secondary, if broken, at an eventual 9068, making it looks like there is a conspiracy to keep the market treading water during August. If triggered,. the tightest stop looks like 9153 points!
Have a good weekend, alas one without Formula1.
FUTURES
FUTURES
| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 10:15:20PM | BRENT | 6647.9 | 6484 | 5988 | 6710 | 6670 | 6684 | 6618 | |||
| 10:17:23PM | GOLD | 3334.92 | 3329 | 3317 | 3343 | 3367 | 3378 | 3341 | |||
| 10:34:21PM | FTSE | 9208 | 9133 | 9125 | 9163 | 9216 | 9226 | 9188 | ‘cess | ||
| 10:37:39PM | STOX50 | 5451.2 | 5373 | 5347 | 5403 | 5453 | 5466 | 5393 | Success | ||
| 10:39:48PM | GERMANY | 24427 | 24116 | 24001 | 24230 | 24436 | 24551 | 24284 | Success | ||
| 10:41:25PM | US500 | 6468 | 6431 | 6419 | 6451 | 6474 | 6488 | 6454 | |||
| 10:44:12PM | DOW | 45038.2 | 44678 | 44543 | 44876 | 45048 | 45101 | 44858 | |||
| 10:48:30PM | NASDAQ | 23793.5 | 23500 | 23343 | 23725 | 23968 | 24167 | 23800 | |||
| 10:50:55PM | JAPAN | 42795 | 42521 | 42502 | 42745 | 42895 | 43040 | 42712 | Success |
14/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,888,645,281 a change of -12.34%
13/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9165 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,576,963,719 a change of 12.35%
12/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9147 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,963,866,673 a change of 14.87%
11/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9129 points. Change of 0.37%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,321,122,132 a change of -15.66%
8/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9095 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,123,576,118 a change of -18.06%
7/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9100 points. Change of -0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,252,889,741 a change of -8.09%
6/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9164 points. Change of 0.24%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,802,933,143 a change of 19.42% 
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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Updated charts published on : Aviva, Capita, Natwest,
LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 675.8 Percentage Change: + 2.55% Day High: 692 Day Low: 662.4
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LSE:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 236 Percentage Change: -1.87% Day High: 242 Day Low: 236
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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 553.4 Percentage Change: + 2.10% Day High: 555.2 Day Low: 542.4
Target met. Continued trades against NWG with a mid-price ABOVE 555.2 sho ……..
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