#Gold #DOW The budget airline, Easyjet, grabbed a cheap headline by announcing Rome as a destination from Glasgow, offering a generous 4 flights a week. We’ve fond memories of a flight to Rome, trying out a suggestion from a corporate world travelling chum. The idea is to invent a meeting somewhere in the centre of the destination city, asking the taxi driver to get to the address as quickly as possible, due to the impending imaginary meeting. We’d pulled a similar stunt to kick off a weekend in Paris, the taxi providing an entertaining and fast journey and earning a good tip. Pulling this stunt to head into Rome started to feel like a mistake, within seconds of clicking the car seat belts into place.
Our taxi driver was clearly a retired Formula1 driver, leaving utter anarchy in his wake by overtaking the queue of taxi’s at the airport traffic lights, even before joining the main route to the tourist hell which can be Rome. Thirty minutes later, we were outside our destination hotel, the superb journey a complete blur of flashing lights and horns and the taxi driver looking like he’d need visit a hospital to extract his grin. This time, it was a “better than good” tip given but tellingly, we used the train for the return journey to Fiumicino airport.
This particular method of kicking off a holiday weekend at a foreign capital city once had an unusual result. We’d returned to “Glasgow”, the airport actually situated 30 minutes away from the city and were (mildly drunkenly) curious how fast an airport taxi driver could move to get into Glasgow east end. To make a short story shorter, within 20 minutes we pulled up outside the Ubiquitous Chip restaurant, the taxi taking a truly unusual route to exit the airport and by-pass the local town. A few minutes later, we slid under the River Clyde and sneaked into the East End. No fuss, no bother, no speeding, just an old school taxi driver who actually knew the best routes. In local vernacular, it would be a case of “that’s youse telt”.
Nowadays, a bit more grown up, no longer wasting money on adventure weekends abroad. We gravitated to new and even more wasteful methods of wasting money, such as buying a fairly big boat and using it as a weekend holiday home. The learning moment was boat depreciation can make the value drop of cars feel generous and miserly. We eventually decided to move to Argyll, ensuring every minute is now spent by the sea in our reasonably priced cottage. Regular readers will know we sometimes mention Argyll weather, regretting our cottage cannot be untied from the shore to allow us to go somewhere drier. And this isn’t a joke, across the sea estuary in Ayrshire, the landscape lacks mountains with the result they enjoy fabulous weather without aggressive scenery! But on the “bright” side, I’ve carved slalom tracks down our snow covered rear lawn.
As for Easyjet share price, since the pandemic drop of 2020, the value has done very little to escape from the gutter. If we play with trend lines, it even looks like it could be around the end of this year before Easyjet is visually forced to do something with their share price, escaping the more recent three years of lethargy.
From an immediate perspective, above 515p has the potential of triggering gains to an initial 535p with our secondary, if bettered, at long term 592p.
Unfortunately, our alternate scenario has alarm bells ringing at 467p, warning of triggering reversal to an initial 434 with our secondary, if broken, at 3832p and hopefully a reason for a bounce.
FUTURES
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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 |
| 10:45:19PM | BRENT | 6848.2 | 6686 | 6562 | 6429 | 6773 | 6964 | 7032 | 7107 | 6791 | ‘cess |
| 10:47:42PM | GOLD | 4965.08 | |||||||||
| 10:51:50PM | FTSE | 10423.3 | Success | ||||||||
| 10:54:15PM | STOX50 | 5976.5 | |||||||||
| 10:56:43PM | GERMANY | 24669.3 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:07:21PM | US500 | 6905 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:12:16PM | DOW | 49474 | 48831 | 48502 | 48118 | 49092 | 49654 | 49770 | 50083 | 49425 | ‘cess |
| 11:15:01PM | NASDAQ | 24998.8 | |||||||||
| 11:17:37PM | JAPAN | 54552 | Success |
4/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10402 points. Change of 0.85%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,267,141,152 a change of 9.85%
3/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10314 points. Change of -0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,436,122,979 a change of -7.8%
2/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10341 points. Change of 1.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,149,750,720 a change of 23.3%
30/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10223 points. Change of 0.51%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,420,952,174 a change of -6.19%
29/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10171 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,910,853,503 a change of 7.47%
28/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10154 points. Change of -0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,361,268,388 a change of 11.9%
27/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10207 points. Change of 0.58%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,578,616,321 a change of 11.32% 
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
Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BME B & M** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **
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Updated charts published on : Anglo American, Barclays, BALFOUR BEATTY, B & M, BP PLC, British Telecom, Centrica, HSBC, Lloyds Grp., National Glib, Natwest, Quadrise, SAGA Plc, Vodafone, Zoo Digital,
LSE:AAL Anglo American Close Mid-Price: 3560 Percentage Change: -3.78% Day High: 3754 Day Low: 3551
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LSE:BARC Barclays Close Mid-Price: 483.25 Percentage Change: -3.66% Day High: 506.3 Day Low: 484.9
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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY Close Mid-Price: 724.5 Percentage Change: -0.75% Day High: 741.5 Day Low: 724.5
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LSE:BME B & M. Close Mid-Price: 183.1 Percentage Change: + 4.63% Day High: 184.45 Day Low: 175.55
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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 477.75 Percentage Change: + 2.41% Day High: 481.35 Day Low: 470.8
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LSE:BT.A British Telecom. Close Mid-Price: 205 Percentage Change: + 5.67% Day High: 204.3 Day Low: 193.85
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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 193.3 Percentage Change: + 0.73% Day High: 196.7 Day Low: 191.75
Target met. All Centrica needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 196.7 to improv ……..
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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1307.6 Percentage Change: + 0.51% Day High: 1320.4 Day Low: 1291
Target met. Continued trades against HSBA with a mid-price ABOVE 1320.4 s ……..
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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp. Close Mid-Price: 112.05 Percentage Change: -0.49% Day High: 114.55 Day Low: 112.35
Target met. Further movement against Lloyds Grp. ABOVE 115p should improv ……..
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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1278 Percentage Change: + 1.75% Day High: 1300.5 Day Low: 1258
Target met. Further movement against National Glib ABOVE 1300.5 should im ……..
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LSE:NWG Natwest Close Mid-Price: 691.6 Percentage Change: -0.37% Day High: 705.4 Day Low: 693.2
Further movement against Natwest ABOVE 705.4 should improve acceleration ……..
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LSE:QED Quadrise Close Mid-Price: 2.08 Percentage Change: -0.95% Day High: 2.04 Day Low: 2
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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc Close Mid-Price: 572 Percentage Change: -1.04% Day High: 590 Day Low: 564
Target met. Further movement against SAGA Plc ABOVE 590 should improve ac ……..
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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 114.35 Percentage Change: + 2.65% Day High: 116.45 Day Low: 111.35
Target met. Continued trades against VOD with a mid-price ABOVE 116.45 sh ……..
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LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital. Close Mid-Price: 15.88 Percentage Change: + 15.45% Day High: 15.88 Day Low: 13.75
Target met. Further movement against Zoo Digital ABOVE 15.88 should impro ……..
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