#Gold #WallSt There’s always the temptation to pad out an article with a snapshot of whatever ridiculousness is going on in Argyll. Wednesday and the last seagoing paddleship in the world looking like it was floating aimlessly beside our local nuclear submarine base, saw a couple of Royal Marine fast boats intercept the ship. After a few minutes, the fast movers moved off and the paddle steamer came to life again. We can only speculate we’d witnessed some sort of exercise but worse, enjoying the scene from the comfort of the passenger lounge on a ferry made it easy to forget to take a snapshot! So, we’ll look at Playtech Plc instead as their share price is looking quite encouraging.
The company, headquartered on the Isle of Man and traded on the FTSE 250, has become the world’s largest designer, developer, and license keeper for web & mobile software to the gaming industry. It’s a seriously impressive set of credentials, if their Wiki page is to be believed. The company certainly can boast an impressive CV in the years since their launch, though we tend detest a business model which essentially works on the same basis as these “Shove Penny” machines. Punters are blissfully unaware of the two concealed “house” slots on lane 1 and lane 4 of the machines, gobbling up any overflow. Discovering this detail, when building a machine for grandchildren, was a real shock, destroying a gullible lifetime of believing this was a true game of chance. Enacting such machinations within software would obviously be quite easy.
Cutting to basics, Playtech Plc share price needs close below 650p to spoil our illusions for coming upward movement.
Movement next above 814p should ideally trigger a price surge to an initial 874 with our longer term secondary, if bettered, at 984p. Overall, we can calculate an eventual 1011p is apparently exerting an influence on the share price, rather nastily matching the highs of 2017 and visually providing a great excuse for hesitation. Essentially, folk whose funds have been on an extended holiday for the last 8 years would be expected to bail at break even, providing selling pressure on the share price and thus, creating a stutter in any rise.
For now, we’re fairly optimistic and strongly suspect it shall be worth betting on 984p making an appearance.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop |
| 10:41:03PM | BRENT | 6093.3 | ||||||||
| 10:53:59PM | GOLD | 3364.05 | 3351 | 3343 | 3324 | 3388 | 3400 | 3414 | 3432 | 3375 |
| 10:57:06PM | FTSE | 8574.6 | ||||||||
| 10:59:24PM | STOX50 | 5245.7 | ||||||||
| 11:32:42PM | GERMANY | 5245.7 | ||||||||
| 11:35:30PM | US500 | 5627.6 | ||||||||
| 11:37:55PM | DOW | 41080 | 40824 | 40641 | 40428 | 41057 | 41281 | 41455 | 41715 | 41004 |
| 11:40:28PM | NASDAQ | 19870.6 | ||||||||
| 11:48:01PM | JAPAN | 36907 |
7/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8559 points. Change of -0.44%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,184,880,879 a change of -26.44%
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 -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,144,462,369 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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