#NWG #BrentCrude It all kicks off this week for Natwest, due to their Q1 2025 Results being issued on Friday 2nd May. With Barclays and Lloyds spilling their beans in the preceding couple of days, we should have a pretty firm clue as to the direction Natwest shall take but our inclination is now toward some optimism. In our last report three weeks ago, we’d given 455p as a fairly major target, and ambition which has been achieved with the share price spending the most recent 7 sessions closing slightly above our target. According to our in-house rules, this should permit a happy dance for all those involved!
The situation now is interesting, suggesting movement above 485p, the high of this year, should trigger a visit to 506p next with our “longer term” secondary coming in at 548p. Such a price level should (according to our software) promote some hesitation but it’s easy to disagree with such a conclusion, due to the visual impression from the chart, the share achieving trading levels not seen since 2007 when the financial crisis hit harder than Covid-19. Without doubt, this would imply the share moving firmly into “Big Picture” territory, where we can now speculate at the chances of a future 781p forming a long term attraction.
The really big deal comes at 548p as this shall finally indicate the financial sector is breaking from of the damage enacted by the Financial Sector crash of 2009. It will certainly be a newsworthy incident, providing absolute confirmation the Natwest share price has finally broken free from its bad habit of oscillating above and below the 300p level for the last 13 years. It used to be said playing the Stock Market was a 7 year game but, from our perspective, the market overall is finally recovering from the Tech Market crash of 2003. If our sums are correct, the next time the FTSE closes above 8695 should herald a period where taking a long position, ten waiting. shall provably prove a good idea.
As always, there’s the threat of converse movement as share price closure below 439p appears to have the potential of triggering reversal to an initial 368 with our secondary, if broken, at 330p and hopefully a bottom.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop |
| 9:54:52PM | BRENT | 6587 | 6465 | 6395 | 6320 | 6529 | 6627 | 6835 | 7170 | 6516 |
| 9:56:56PM | GOLD | 3319.04 | 3333 | |||||||
| 9:59:31PM | FTSE | 8447.3 | 8410 | |||||||
| 10:09:00PM | STOX50 | 5184.4 | 5125 | |||||||
| 10:10:43PM | GERMANY | 22351.5 | 22079 | 22009 | 21891 | 22217 | 22360 | 22881 | 24232 | 22112 |
| 10:14:25PM | US500 | 5525.8 | 5460 | |||||||
| 10:16:47PM | DOW | 40126 | 40016 | |||||||
| 10:35:51PM | NASDAQ | 19444 | 19257 | |||||||
| 10:38:17PM | JAPAN | 36010 | 35700 |
25/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8415 points. Change of 0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,237,226,855 a change of 5.62%
24/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8407 points. Change of 0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,905,217,134 a change of -25.57%
23/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8403 points. Change of 0.9%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,934,111,998 a change of 10.99%
22/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8328 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,148,209,130 a change of 44.7%
17/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8275 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,939,870,003 a change of -16.08%
16/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8275 points. Change of 0.32%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,886,488,566 a change of -4.07%
15/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,136,208,877 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 : Asos, Carclo, Centrica, ITV, Speedyhire,
LSE:ASC Asos Close Mid-Price: 293.5 Percentage Change: -7.27% Day High: 328 Day Low: 292.5
In the event of Asos enjoying further trades beyond 328, the share should ……..
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LSE:CAR Carclo. Close Mid-Price: 28.45 Percentage Change: + 3.08% Day High: 34 Day Low: 27.9
All Carclo needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 34 to improve acceleration to ……..
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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 157.35 Percentage Change: + 2.44% Day High: 156.55 Day Low: 153.85
Continued trades against CNA with a mid-price ABOVE 156.55 should improve ……..
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LSE:ITV ITV. Close Mid-Price: 80.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 81.55 Day Low: 78.6
Further movement against ITV ABOVE 81.55 should improve acceleration towa ……..
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LSE:SDY Speedyhire Close Mid-Price: 18.8 Percentage Change: -1.26% Day High: 19.5 Day Low: 18
If Speedyhire experiences continued weakness below 18, it will invariably ……..
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