#Brent #Germany The UK stock market continues to react with “Top Gear” levels of critical analysis. For instance, Audi could release a new car, one capable of of executing perfectly impossible right hand turns at 70mph, yet capable of reaching 200mph while exceeding the load capacity of a Volvo estate but Top Gear would moan about the door handles, wiper blades, or the fact the radio can no longer play Steve Wright in the Afternoon. Releasing a fairly solid set of results, along with positive views for the future, the market chose to punish the retail banks share price anyway.
There’s certainly something fragrant about whatever has been going on, due to Barclays choosing to abandon their court action against a recent FCA financial penalty levelled for their panic behaviour during the 2009 Financial Crisis. One could almost suspect the FCA and Barclays came to an agreement, the FCA promising to go gently on their announced probe into “historical oversight and management of higher risk customers” into an area of the bank dealing with retail banking for individuals and small businesses in the UK, along with Barclays Bank offering financial services worldwide to larger corporate clients.
Regardless of what may be going on, the market chose to represent Barclays as the bad guys, punishing their previously flamboyant share price by gapping it down, immediately following their results and news.
The situation has been created where ongoing weakness below 291 looks perfectly capable of provoking reversal to an initial confident looking 264p. We’ve a pretty good reason to hope for a rebound at such a level but warn, should 264 break, our next hopeful rebound point calculates at 234p, a feat of almost perfect visual correctness, matching the level the downtrend since 2007 was broken in October 2024. Weird!
However, our inclination is to pin our hopes on the share price continuing to show optimism for the future as above 302p now calculates with the hope of price recovery to an initial 359 with our longer term secondary introducing itself at an impressive 404p level, also an Errorcode familiar to internet users with “Page Not Found” generally attached to it… As shown on the chart below, while a visit to 264p looks almost ordained, matching the immediate Red uptrend, this almost gives a hope for a bounce leading to an eventual 404p and some almost certain hesitation.
The future for the share price looks complicated but hopefully, with politics correctly managed, still fairly positive.
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 |
| 10:48:33PM | BRENT | 7436.5 | 7428 | 7384 | 7275 | 7536 | 7565 | 7584 | 7634 | 7504 |
| 10:51:46PM | GOLD | 2881.43 | 2888 | |||||||
| 10:54:35PM | FTSE | 8706.8 | 8747 | |||||||
| 10:57:14PM | STOX50 | 5480.6 | ||||||||
| 10:59:34PM | GERMANY | 22501.4 | 22465 | 22406 | 22337 | 22524 | 22578 | 22616 | 22665 | 22502 |
| 11:02:32PM | US500 | 6115.2 | ||||||||
| 11:05:26PM | DOW | 44565.2 | ||||||||
| 11:14:46PM | NASDAQ | 22138.5 | ||||||||
| 11:21:05PM | JAPAN | 39126 |
14/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8732 points. Change of -0.37%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,971,374,028 a change of -3.83%
13/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8764 points. Change of -0.49%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,209,371,407 a change of -0.52%
12/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8807 points. Change of 0.34%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,241,531,008 a change of 5.5%
11/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8777 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,916,306,035 a change of -5.17%
10/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8767 points. Change of 0.77%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,238,714,385 a change of -19.63%
7/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8700 points. Change of -0.31%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,762,890,923 a change of 38.28%
6/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8727 points. Change of 1.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,614,005,205 a change of 8.54% 
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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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 1.27 Percentage Change: -3.77% Day High: 1.32 Day Low: 1.27
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