#Brent #WallSt The country appears to have gotten through March without the promised chaos of snow cover, everywhere, despite the media promising such an event. Unsurprisingly, similar to the missing snow storms, there’s a complete lack of anyone in the media questioning why we were treated to panic headline stories about an event which no-one really believed would happen. Increasingly fewer people buy national newspapers, due in no small way to them being as truthful or accurate than poundshop politicians.
This quite neatly brings us to our outlook against Barclays from three weeks ago.
We gave some quite bombastic predictions, none of which actually happened! Instead of triggering our gain scenario by moving above 313p, the best the share managed was a visit to 311.6p. On the alternate side of life, on March 13th, the share price dipped briefly below our drop trigger of 287, accomplishing this feat with a plunge in the opening second of trade. This unfortunately is one of our favourite hobby horses, one which states to never trust a dip down (or spike up) at the open of trade. Often, we feel these movements are engineered to create “mood lighting” for traders, creating an expectation which will inevitably force the wrong conclusions by the gullible. This is why our preference is for closing prices to be treated more seriously, regardless of the subject being a share, index, or commodity.
Unfortunately, if we stick to our guns and rely on closing prices, we’re now forced to take the stance of anticipating further movement below 293p to now trigger reversal to an initial 279p with our secondary, if broken, a less likely 272p. Overall, this isn’t great, placing the share price in a zone where an eventual “bottom” of 256p becomes possible. But we’d also advocate paying close attention to where the share price actually closes in relation to our target levels.
Visually and historically, there’s a pretty good chance of a bounce, should the 279p level next make an appearance. But as for rushing in and taking a Long position at such a level, there’s also the grave danger of the often tested uptrend since February of 2024 breaking, it being a fairly medium term uptrend and emphatically not a set of rules. If sufficient number of traders lose reliance on this Red line, things could go wrong rather quickly and make our gloomy 256p the subject of reality… Then again, perhaps President Trump shall place a 25% tariff on “foreign” share dealing, abruptly giving share prices a sharp gain. (this is a joke, not a possibility!)
With our expectation being for Barclays to bounce from the 279p level, it shall prove interesting if any rebound exceeds the 310p level as this should provoke gains to an initial 322p with our secondary, if bettered, at 335p. Overall, we’d regard this as kicking off a cycle toward 407p as a major point of interest sometime in the future.
Of course, none of the above mentions predicted snow storms. But we’re now suspecting a dusting of snow down to the 279p level is almost upon the markets. Then again, it’s officially Spring with the clocks finally returning to Sane Time escaping the absurd regression which takes us into artificial winter darkness to satisfy some weird political theory..
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop |
| 2:18:55AM | BRENT | 7240.9 | 7237 | 7204 | 7155 | 7280 | 7351 | 7392 | 7445 | 7288 |
| 2:21:56AM | GOLD | 3084.21 | 3074 | |||||||
| 2:25:12AM | FTSE | 8642.5 | 8668 | |||||||
| 2:34:56AM | STOX50 | 5321.5 | 5334 | |||||||
| 10:11:32PM | GERMANY | 22455 | 22308 | |||||||
| 10:14:17PM | US500 | 5557 | 5597 | |||||||
| 10:16:42PM | DOW | 41426.3 | 41412 | 40926 | 40291 | 41714 | 41850 | 41977 | 42161 | 41688 |
| 10:19:40PM | NASDAQ | 19179.5 | 19643 | |||||||
| 10:23:19PM | JAPAN | 36256 | 36809 |
28/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8658 points. Change of -0.09%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,309,813,922 a change of 6.75%
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% 
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.
We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…
Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares
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LSE:AML Aston Martin Close Mid-Price: 65.25 Percentage Change: -5.02% Day High: 69.85 Day Low: 65.4
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LSE:BT.A British Telecom. Close Mid-Price: 165.3 Percentage Change: + 1.54% Day High: 166.55 Day Low: 163.1
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LSE:DGE Diageo. Close Mid-Price: 2046.5 Percentage Change: + 1.21% Day High: 2050.5 Day Low: 2006.5
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LSE:EZJ EasyJet Close Mid-Price: 459.5 Percentage Change: -2.90% Day High: 475 Day Low: 459.3
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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra Close Mid-Price: 292.55 Percentage Change: -1.71% Day High: 300.2 Day Low: 293.55
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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1009.5 Percentage Change: + 2.86% Day High: 1012 Day Low: 985.4
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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments Close Mid-Price: 1784 Percentage Change: -1.22% Day High: 1892 Day Low: 1770
Target met. In the event Oxford Instruments experiences weakness below 17 ……..
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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 47 Percentage Change: + 4.44% Day High: 47.2 Day Low: 45.3
Further movement against Rockhopper ABOVE 47.2 should improve acceleratio ……..
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LSE:SPX Spirax Close Mid-Price: 6415 Percentage Change: -2.36% Day High: 6535 Day Low: 6375
Continued weakness against SPX taking the price below 6355 calculates as l ……..
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