#FTSE #Frogs It’s difficult to know where to start this Friday as the markets are a bit confused. Obviously, US President Trump is being partially blamed for doing exactly what he said he was going to do with tariffs. The media conveniently forget his original “bloodbath” comment related to his intention of restricting the flow of foreign vehicles into the American market, said during the presidential campaign. Unfortunately, the media chose to twist his words to mean something else entirely different, now acting surprised at someone doing something they said they were going to do.
In fairness, we’re fairly similar here in Argyll, Scotland, when the temperature finally starts to climb away from freezing and the door toward Spring slowly opens. This means it starts to rain quite heavily and frequently, triggering the annual festival of folk acting surprised foul weather has returned, as happens every single year. The annual frog migration, creating a roadkill splatter of amphibians every night, has happened roughly 4 weeks later than usual this year. This suggests the rain is going to continue, making it safe for the frogs to dump spawn everywhere without fear of puddles drying up. On the basis frogs know a thing or two, we’ve good reason to be sceptical about 2025 producing a dry summer during May and June (when summer actually happens on Scotlands West Coast).
Hopefully the frogs don’t give reason for further comment this year! Equally, perhaps the monster frog who lives under the steps up to the lawn, chooses to make an appearance. If so, this beast will be around 16 years old and has avoided the owls, the crows, the cats, and the pine marten, perhaps appreciating it has lived under the protection of the dogs (who ignore it) but threaten doom on any other creature on “their” patio.
Returning to the FTSE and a market which really hasn’t done anything since the middle of March, it’s currently the case we’re cautious of taking any rise seriously unless the index exceeds 8684 points, preferably not with a spike in the opening second of trades. Movement above such a level as 8684 should trigger fairly unimpressive traffic toward an initial 8700 points with our secondary, if bettered, a rather more useful 8769 points. If this scenario kicks off, the tightest stop loss level looks attractive 8638 points.
Our alternate scenario, if things decide to go bonkers or the UK media learn to read the horrible joined up writing from the Chancellors Financial Statement on Wednesday rather than the “Press Release For Dummies” which was issued, suggests traffic below 8610 points could lead to reversals down to an initial 8564 points with our secondary, if broken, a hopeful bottom of 8512 points.
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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 |
| 8:27:17PM | BRENT | 7326.4 | 7255 | 7239 | 7295 | 7337 | 7355 | 7312 | |||
| 8:31:08PM | GOLD | 3056.07 | 3027 | 3015 | 3041 | 3060 | 3070 | 3047 | Success | ||
| 8:34:38PM | FTSE | 8665.5 | 8610 | 8598 | 8642 | 8668 | 8697 | 8635 | |||
| 8:38:32PM | STOX50 | 5375 | 5337 | 5312 | 5388 | 5401 | 5421 | 5370 | |||
| 8:41:03PM | GERMANY | 22665 | 22616 | 22528 | 22742 | 22740 | 22821 | 22612 | Success | ||
| 8:44:07PM | US500 | 5695 | 5673 | 5663 | 5730 | 5736 | 5759 | 5698 | |||
| 8:47:17PM | DOW | 42323 | 42150 | 41912 | 42350 | 42570 | 42735 | 42455 | ‘cess | ||
| 8:50:34PM | NASDAQ | 19820.3 | 19780 | 19698 | 19862 | 20004 | 20114 | 19830 | |||
| 8:53:07PM | JAPAN | 37684 | 37528 | 37443 | 37706 | 37806 | 37930 | 37650 | ‘cess |
27/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8666 points. Change of -0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,974,129,293 a change of -6.31%
26/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8689 points. Change of 0.3%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,309,245,116 a change of -37.66%
25/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8663 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,516,934,652 a change of 81.47%
24/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8638 points. Change of -0.09%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,693,303,680 a change of -72.9%
21/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8646 points. Change of -0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 17,319,068,122 a change of 126.14%
20/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8702 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,658,434,671 a change of 23.47%
19/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8706 points. Change of 0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,202,916,969 a change of 4.34% 
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 : Aston Martin, EasyJet, Glencore Xstra, Oxford Instruments, Rockhopper,
LSE:AML Aston Martin Close Mid-Price: 68.7 Percentage Change: -6.66% Day High: 72.95 Day Low: 67.05
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LSE:EZJ EasyJet Close Mid-Price: 473.2 Percentage Change: -1.54% Day High: 477.2 Day Low: 462.8
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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra Close Mid-Price: 297.65 Percentage Change: -2.09% Day High: 303.15 Day Low: 297
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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments Close Mid-Price: 1806 Percentage Change: -2.69% Day High: 1838 Day Low: 1796
Weakness on Oxford Instruments below 1796 will invariably lead to 1793p w ……..
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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 45 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 45.8 Day Low: 43.2
Further movement against Rockhopper ABOVE 45.8 should improve acceleratio ……..
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