#Gold With regard Formula1, it appears April has been cancelled, making us suspect the month perhaps used the wrong pronouns or misgendered an important calendar date. But as far as the rest of the world is concerned, Aprils Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grand Prix are now cancelled due to local events, leaving a conflict sized hole in this years schedule and giving teams plenty of time to enjoy chocolate Easter Eggs with their families. Of course, it’s easy to be flippant about what’s happening in the Middle East as it doesn’t affect is in the UK, a merciful lack of rockets every night meaning we can all sleep easy.
Until, that is, you pull up at a fuel pump! Buying my parsimonious VW’s monthly ration of 20 litres of diesel, the local garage was charging 170.9p per litre. Or in language readers will comprehend, nearly 2 Taylor Wimpey shares a litre or even 13 Tullow Oil shares a litre. This makes things become serious, especially for someone whose only real world experience of armed conflict came from a Saturday night in Belfast during “The Troubles”. It was a scary experience, being around a lot of blokes with guns – and they were the British Army guys. On another occasion, our first night in Johannesburg proved fascinating, the sound of fireworks continuing incessantly. We even stood on the balcony, searching the night sky, coming to the conclusion the fireworks display was probably on the other side of the hotel. The next morning at breakfast, we asked the obvious question, only to be told we’d been listening to gunfire.
The world is a strange place.
Currently, one of the great puzzles is why the US Dollar appears to be strengthening against other currencies. What’s odd is the pairing appeared ready to head upward until the end of January this year saw a sharp pivot in the dollars fortunes. Abruptly, the idea of everyone going to Disney Florida changed!
Now, if the dollar continues to flex its illusory muscles, a visit to the summer traffic hell of Cornwall will probably make more economic sense than trying to escape the UK.
The current situation for Cable looks poised on the edge of darkness with movement below 1.32188 looking very capable of triggering reversal to an initial 1.31224 with our secondary, if broken, down at 1.28625. If triggered, the tightest stop loss level looks like 1.32800.
In this instance, we suspect the US Dollar strength shall prove a mirage, one which the market shall doubtless vanish with a flick of the “gotcha switch” as movement above 1.3483 has the potential of triggering improvement to an initial 1.3633 with our secondary, if bettered, at 1.3896.
FUTURES
FUTURES
| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 10:42:08PM | BRENT | 10726 | Success | ||||||||
| 10:46:05PM | GOLD | 4828.37 | 4803 | 4762 | 4544 | 4898 | 4900 | 4933 | 4977 | 4800 | Success |
| 10:52:32PM | FTSE | 10210.2 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:00:28PM | STOX50 | 5647.5 | Success | ||||||||
| 10:52:19PM | GERMANY | 23134.1 | Success | ||||||||
| 10:55:49PM | US500 | 6620.6 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:00:26PM | DOW | 46177.4 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:29:27PM | NASDAQ | 24411 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:33:33PM | JAPAN | 53815 | Success |
18/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10305 points. Change of -0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,854,191,076 a change of -1.67%
17/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10403 points. Change of 0.83%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,987,381,967 a change of 9.97%
16/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10317 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,262,925,875 a change of -9.77%
13/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10261 points. Change of -0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,049,702,522 a change of -8.86%
12/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10305 points. Change of -0.46%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,832,637,892 a change of -14.1%
11/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10353 points. Change of -0.57%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,282,615,552 a change of -7.67%
10/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10412 points. Change of 1.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,136,252,085 a change of 18.42% 
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
Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:DGE Diageo** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:SDY Speedyhire** **
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Updated charts published on : Aviva, BP PLC, Capita, Diageo, Firstgroup, Fresnillo, Speedyhire,
LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 648.4 Percentage Change: + 0.12% Day High: 656 Day Low: 645.8
Continued trades against AV. with a mid-price ABOVE 656 should improve th ……..
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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 555.8 Percentage Change: + 0.71% Day High: 559.8 Day Low: 546.2
Further movement against BP PLC ABOVE 559.8 should improve acceleration t ……..
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LSE:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 247 Percentage Change: -2.95% Day High: 254.5 Day Low: 242.5
Weakness on Capita below 242.5 will invariably lead to 240p with secondar ……..
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LSE:DGE Diageo Close Mid-Price: 1427 Percentage Change: -1.65% Day High: 1461.5 Day Low: 1420
In the event Diageo experiences weakness below 1420 it calculates with a ……..
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LSE:FGP Firstgroup. Close Mid-Price: 172.3 Percentage Change: + 2.38% Day High: 178.9 Day Low: 166.2
Weakness on Firstgroup below 166.2 will invariably lead to 158p with seco ……..
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LSE:FRES Fresnillo Close Mid-Price: 3322 Percentage Change: -3.65% Day High: 3468 Day Low: 3230
Target met. In the event Fresnillo experiences weakness below 3230 it cal ……..
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LSE:SDY Speedyhire Close Mid-Price: 21.5 Percentage Change: -2.27% Day High: 22.5 Day Low: 21.4
If Speedyhire experiences continued weakness below 21.4, it will invariab ……..
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