#Gold #SP500. A few miles up the road from us is a place called Kilmartin Glen. In a stretch of around 6 miles, there exists a huge collection of standing stones and weird rock piles called cairns. The structures are older than Stonehenge and with some of the stones being 3 metres tall, they’re quite impressive too. But with a typical Scottish lack of self promotion, no-one has heard of the very accessible collection of ancient monuments, almost as if “they” don’t want to challenge Stonehenge as the leading Neolithic monument in the UK. To be fair, Stonehenge is individually more impressive, but where quantity challenged quality, Kilmartin Glen wins hands down. And being Scotland, it’s blessed with pretty scenery too.
In other words, guess what we did on our Holiday Monday? A drive of a few miles, lots of Kodak moments, a river for the dog to swim, and a day when rain was absent, due mainly to summer on the West Coast taking place during May and June. The complete lack of tourists rubbernecking, taking selfies, driving incompetently was a surprise, especially as we’ve avoided visiting the place due to an expectation of it being crowded.
This, obviously, brings us to Lloyds. Similar to Scotlands pile of Neolithic rocks, their share price has been painfully unspectacular for years but thankfully, it now starts to appear something has changed in a positive direction.
Lloyds share price has exceeded the downtrend (Blue) since the fun times of the financial crash. When we previously reviewed the share, our logic gave an initial target of 71p, a number comfortably achieved and exceeded in recent days. The situation now is fairly interesting as above 74p should now trigger movement to an initial 77p with our secondary, if beaten, at a probable 84p and some very possible hesitation.
The share price needs now slither below 52p to cancel our optimistic arguments in favour of Lloyds, arguments which now favour a future 111p as exerting an attraction in a distant future.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop |
| 10:58:30PM | BRENT | 6196.3 | ||||||||
| 11:01:50PM | GOLD | 3386.6 | 3350 | 3319 | 3280 | 3388 | 3434 | 3464 | 3552 | 3348 |
| 11:04:51PM | FTSE | 8593.6 | ||||||||
| 11:06:33PM | STOX50 | 5270.6 | ||||||||
| 11:08:33PM | GERMANY | 23303 | ||||||||
| 11:10:50PM | US500 | 5643.5 | 5584 | 5567 | 5522 | 5614 | 5669 | 5685 | 5718 | 5604 |
| 11:13:31PM | DOW | 41077.5 | ||||||||
| 11:17:59PM | NASDAQ | 19954 | ||||||||
| 11:20:21PM | JAPAN | 37077 |
6/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8597 points. Change of 0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,408,484,363 a change of 30.09%
2/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8596 points. Change of 1.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,463,449,781 a change of 59.81%
1/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8496 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,044,371,616 a change of -59.2%
30/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8494 points. Change of 0.37%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,912,933,347 a change of 92.29%
29/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8463 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,155,137,835 a change of 24.39%
28/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8417 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,144,462,369 a change of -33.55%
25/04/2025 FTSE Closed at 8415 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,237,226,855 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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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 577.6 Percentage Change: + 1.73% Day High: 577.8 Day Low: 569.8
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LSE:EXPN Experian Close Mid-Price: 3809 Percentage Change: -1.17% Day High: 3886 Day Low: 3775
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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 281.6 Percentage Change: + 0.93% Day High: 283.6 Day Low: 275.3
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