#Brent #SP500 Barclays share price has spent the last three weeks since our previous review, mimicking the weather here in Argyll by doing nothing interesting. It has been almost amusing, reading of the rest of the UK being blown around, flooded, and snowed upon. Here by the mountainous seashores, aside from a few days when temperatures dropped seriously toward -10c, it’s been quite mild. As a “for instance”, this weekend, completing the dog walks under blue sky, the daylight lasting ’till nearly 4.30pm, has been quite pleasant.
Unfortunately, the hysteria from the rest of the UK somehow managed to take hold locally, an irrational fear of snow provoking some churches to cancel their Sunday services! What was even stranger, the usual weather services were predicting snow on the West Coast with Argyll, painted with a similar yellow band to everywhere else. We NEVER get the same weather as everywhere else! Unsurprisingly, there was not snow, not even foul wind or rain. On my dog walk, I wore my wide brimmed hat with confidence a gust of wind wasn’t going to provoke a Benny Hill moment, chasing the thing. (A wide brimmed hat keeps the rain off your shoulders, if you’ve chosen the wrong jacket. And it looks quite cool…) Don’t get me wrong, we’ve plenty of snow on the surrounding mountains but it’s only lying to a level of around 400 feet, giving some wonderful holiday snaps to departing tourists who’d visited for New Year week.
With Barclays share price literally behaving as if it has resided here in Argyll, experiencing a paucity of movement which felt hardwired to our weather systems, can we anticipate anything interesting in 2025?
There’s a little bit of hope, despite some immediately dangerous signals. Presently trading around 266p, the share price needs dip below 260p to justify a degree of concern as this allows reversals to an initial 237p and hopefully a bounce. Should 237p break, our secondary comes in at 229p and an excuse for us to urgently review what’s going on!
However, despite the threat of short term weakness, we shall be fascinated if the share price stumbles above just 274p as this should next signal recovery to an initial 289p with our secondary, if bettered, an eventual 313p along with some hesitation when it matches a prior series of highs. Our belief is this hesitation becomes inevitable, due to selling pressure from folks trapped since 2013.
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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 |
| 10:36:14PM | BRENT | 7662.5 | 7552 | 7503 | 7446 | 7627 | 7677 | 7794 | 8036 | 7477 | |
| 10:55:10PM | GOLD | 2640.4 | |||||||||
| 11:10:09PM | FTSE | 8220.9 | |||||||||
| 11:12:38PM | STOX50 | 4880.7 | |||||||||
| 11:15:35PM | GERMANY | 19909 | |||||||||
| 11:18:08PM | US500 | 5942.2 | 5878 | 5848 | 5813 | 5896 | 5953 | 5996 | 6052 | 5917 | |
| 11:20:59PM | DOW | 42702 | |||||||||
| 11:26:44PM | NASDAQ | 21299.6 | |||||||||
| 11:31:34PM | JAPAN | 39746 |
3/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8223 points. Change of 0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,304,674,170 a change of 278.32%
31/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8173 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 1,402,162,545 a change of -42.6%
30/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8121 points. Change of -0.34%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 2,442,888,350 a change of -9.29%
29/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8149 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 2,693,002,049 a change of 0%
23/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8102 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,427,016,579 a change of 0% 
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 : Capita, Gulf Keystone, HSBC, International Distribution, IG Group, Quadrise, Rockhopper, Taylor Wimpey,
LSE:CPI Capita. Close Mid-Price: 13.9 Percentage Change: + 0.72% Day High: 14.04 Day Low: 13.7
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LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone. Close Mid-Price: 161 Percentage Change: + 5.02% Day High: 161.2 Day Low: 153.3
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LSE:HSBA HSBC Close Mid-Price: 782.3 Percentage Change: -0.14% Day High: 787.3 Day Low: 775.5
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LSE:IDS International Distribution Close Mid-Price: 363.8 Percentage Change: -0.05% Day High: 364 Day Low: 363.4
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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 997 Percentage Change: + 0.10% Day High: 999 Day Low: 993
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LSE:QED Quadrise Close Mid-Price: 7.18 Percentage Change: -5.28% Day High: 7.98 Day Low: 6.52
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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 27.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 28 Day Low: 26.2
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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey Close Mid-Price: 118.85 Percentage Change: -2.78% Day High: 122.1 Day Low: 118.9
If Taylor Wimpey experiences continued weakness below 118.9, it will inva ……..
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