#Gold #Stoxx50 Somehow or other, one of our grand-daughters has developed a sense of humour. There’s even a slight chance the blame lies with me, due to a habit of ensuring each year is punctuated with a major “gotcha” for her, usually months in the making. This year has seen her revenge, her victim being the microwave. Firstly, she “stole” the clock from the display. A few months later, the display discovered darkness until the door was opened and now, visiting for the school holidays, she’s managed to utterly silence the machines irritating “beeps”. I know she’s discovered the manufacturers programming codes, generally accessed by a complex series of key presses, designed to make it impossible for the public to mess with the software. Neither my wife nor I have risen to the bait, intending to carry out a hard reset on the thing while sabotaging the cookers software, probably to disable the timer which she relies upon for her baking.
We’re starting to suspect her Mum has regaled her with stories of her own childhood, hopefully not including the time she discovered Fairy Liquid and a dishwasher REALLY do not mix.
Kiers price movements are sponsoring this delve into whimsical thoughts as when we reviewed ’em a year ago, we’d proposed 70p as an ultimate bottom, this being a number below which we couldn’t calculate. As September ended in 2022, the share price stumbled below 70p, making us fear for the worst as we couldn’t realistically work out anywhere else for the price to go. Similar to myself floundering around looking for a Microwave beep, the share has managed to enact everything possible to confuse the market but by the end of April this year, some hope was discovered Kier share price is on the edge of doing something useful.
There are some fairly solid signs the construction industry is finally starting to give hope for investors and we’d hope Kier shall join in any upward surprise movements. The immediate situation is quite interesting, suggesting above 86p should now promote the concept of price recovery to an initial 99p. Our longer term secondary, if 99p is exceeded, calculates at 121p and some probable hesitation, if only due to prior highs.
For everything to go horribly wrong, the share price now needs wither below 60p to give an early impression of real trouble. Visually, it looks like optimism should be the order of the day for the future and hopefully, UK politicians don’t position themselves to spoil the party.
FUTURES
| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 9:42:07PM | BRENT | 7930 | 7900 | 7842 | 7764 | 7991 | 8077 | 8127 | 8236 | 7963 | ‘cess |
| 9:57:06PM | GOLD | 1976.36 | 1969 | 1964 | 1958 | 1979 | 1980 | 1986 | 2017 | 1969 | |
| 9:59:57PM | FTSE | 7582.3 | 7512 | 7488 | 7442 | 7589 | 7626 | 7667 | 7733 | 7561 | Success |
| 10:03:22PM | STOX50 | 4356 | 4355 | 4352 | 4335 | 4372 | 4387 | 4398 | 4413 | 4367 | ‘cess |
| 10:06:38PM | GERMANY | 16111.4 | 16071 | 16050 | 15986 | 16122 | 16175 | 16203 | 16247 | 16117 | ‘cess |
| 10:08:33PM | US500 | 4564.4 | 4550 | 4542 | 4530 | 4563 | 4578 | 4585 | 4596 | 4557 | |
| 10:11:05PM | DOW | 35048.5 | 34883 | 34813 | 34673 | 35023 | 35233 | 35255 | 35327 | 35065 | ‘cess |
| 10:13:49PM | NASDAQ | 15810.9 | 15783 | 15749 | 15687 | 15865 | 15940 | 16110 | 16921 | 15795 | Shambles |
| 10:16:14PM | JAPAN | 32876 | 32803 | 32728 | 32617 | 32883 | 33006 | 33075 | 33165 | 32870 | Success |
19/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7588 points. Change of 1.81%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,416,071,113 a change of 56.65%
18/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7453 points. Change of 0.63%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,095,812,024 a change of 3.79%
17/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7406 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,946,111,838 a change of 6.88%
14/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7434 points. Change of -0.08%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,691,976,999 a change of -20.65%
13/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7440 points. Change of 0.32%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,652,935,320 a change of -35.19%
12/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7416 points. Change of 1.84%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,179,397,183 a change of 76.59%
11/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7282 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,065,629,486 a change of 3.17% 
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 : Asos, Barclays, Darktrace Plc, Hikma, Hargreaves Lansdown, HSBC, International Distribution, ITM Power, Marks and Spencer, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust,
LSE:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 385.9 Percentage Change: + 2.17% Day High: 397 Day Low: 380.5
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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 164.28 Percentage Change: + 3.07% Day High: 164.56 Day Low: 161.32
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LSE:DARK Darktrace Plc. Close Mid-Price: 393.6 Percentage Change: + 4.76% Day High: 391.3 Day Low: 372.1
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LSE:HIK Hikma. Close Mid-Price: 1951.5 Percentage Change: + 3.83% Day High: 1960 Day Low: 1892
Target met. In the event of Hikma enjoying further trades beyond 1960, th ……..
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LSE:HL. Hargreaves Lansdown. Close Mid-Price: 914 Percentage Change: + 8.78% Day High: 909.8 Day Low: 866
Continued trades against HL. with a mid-price ABOVE 909.8 should improve ……..
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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 628.8 Percentage Change: + 0.82% Day High: 632 Day Low: 624.5
All HSBC needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 632 to improve acceleration tow ……..
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LSE:IDS International Distribution. Close Mid-Price: 266.8 Percentage Change: + 1.91% Day High: 267.5 Day Low: 262.4
Target met. All International Distribution needs are mid-price trades ABO ……..
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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 91.8 Percentage Change: + 9.31% Day High: 93.06 Day Low: 84.02
Target met. Continued trades against ITM with a mid-price ABOVE 93.06 sho ……..
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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 204.9 Percentage Change: + 1.39% Day High: 207.6 Day Low: 202.9
Target met. In the event of Marks and Spencer enjoying further trades bey ……..
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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 711.8 Percentage Change: + 4.65% Day High: 710.4 Day Low: 689.2
Continued trades against SMT with a mid-price ABOVE 710.4 should improve ……..
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