#Gold #WallSt With the Eurovision Song Contest coming on this Saturday, our annual drinking game with friends is being cheerfully anticipated. For years, the four of us gather, eat Chinese takeaway, drink absurd quantities of wine, and ridicule the acts. This year, there’s a problem specifically with the UK entry. The group Remember Monday, comprising three girls, have been paying their dues in the entertainment industry for years and it was a real surprise to hear the UK had chosen actual talent to represent the country. Ages ago, they covered the Queen track, “Fat Bottomed Girls”, producing a standout version of the tune. Apparently even Queens Brian May complemented them on their effort, the version on YouTube gaining over 5 million views. It’s going to be the first time watching Eurovision, where a guilty secret will be to hope the UK’s Remember Monday actually does quite well!
It certainly won’t deter from our ridicule of the rest of the show, this year fuelled by my own home made Rioja wine, a brew which has matured into an amazing success.
Carnival Plc already have started their 2025 schedule, visiting our local cruise ship terminal, a few miles across the sea estuary at a port called Greenock. It’s extremely difficult to express any enthusiasm or attraction for cruise ships visiting Greenock, the town being a bit of a dump. It’s a bit like trying to promote Milton Keynes as a summer holiday destination and by any standard, Milton Keynes outshines Greenock. Regardless, the big white cruise liners appear every week, disgorging passengers who immediately jump on a train to Glasgow, ignoring the place their ship docked. It’s almost funny, the town called Greenock being treated as an inconvenient blob by cruise passengers as it echoes our own sentiment, the 20 minute delay created by Greenock as we head to our own ferry terminal to return to Argyll. But this year, it certainly looks like Carnival are ramping up their schedule of visits to the port of Greenock.
From a near term perspective, a share price above 1527p looks like triggering a confident visit to 1695p with our “longer term” secondary calculating at a future 1899p. along with a challenge of the downtrend since 2017. For things to go horribly wrong, the share price needs drop below 1100p as this threatens the Red uptrend, risking dire results by entering a zone capable of producing a reversal cycle to 313p.
Critically, it appears closure above 1899 shall be important for the longer term, placing the share in a zone with a long term attraction coming from 4257p, a destination substantially more attractive than Greenock…
FUTURES
FUTURES
| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 11:16:59PM | BRENT | 6483.2 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:20:57PM | GOLD | 3235.24 | 3208 | 3175 | 3146 | 3250 | 3292 | 3314 | 3350 | 3260 | ‘cess |
| 11:26:20PM | FTSE | 8623 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:28:46PM | STOX50 | 5407.4 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:34:11PM | GERMANY | 23637 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:37:17PM | US500 | 5841.2 | Shambles | ||||||||
| 11:43:14PM | DOW | 42392 | 41672 | 41313 | 40926 | 41837 | 42474 | 42661 | 44391 | 42113 | Success |
| 11:46:32PM | NASDAQ | 20838 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:50:21PM | JAPAN | 38683 |
12/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8604 points. Change of 0.58%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,240,262,967 a change of 23.36%
9/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8554 points. Change of 0.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,058,383,075 a change of -23.7%
8/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8531 points. Change of -0.33%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,629,623,125 a change of 7.19%
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 -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,044,371,616 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 : Anglo American, Aviva, Barclays, Carclo, Carnival, British Airways, IG Group, IQE, Marks and Spencer, Rockhopper, Standard Chartered,
LSE:AAL Anglo American. Close Mid-Price: 2162 Percentage Change: + 5.54% Day High: 2212.5 Day Low: 2132
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LSE:AV. Aviva Close Mid-Price: 576.4 Percentage Change: -1.20% Day High: 592.6 Day Low: 568.2
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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 313.3 Percentage Change: + 2.05% Day High: 320.4 Day Low: 310.9
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LSE:CAR Carclo. Close Mid-Price: 39 Percentage Change: + 5.41% Day High: 39 Day Low: 37
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LSE:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 1510 Percentage Change: + 9.38% Day High: 1527 Day Low: 1399.5
Target met. Further movement against Carnival ABOVE 1527 should improve a ……..
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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 311.7 Percentage Change: + 4.88% Day High: 316 Day Low: 302.1
Target met. All British Airways needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 316 to ……..
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LSE:IGG IG Group Close Mid-Price: 1071 Percentage Change: -1.65% Day High: 1112 Day Low: 1066
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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 9.17 Percentage Change: -2.13% Day High: 9.73 Day Low: 8.92
In the event IQE experiences weakness below 8.92 it calculates with a dro ……..
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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer Close Mid-Price: 346.1 Percentage Change: -3.32% Day High: 359.6 Day Low: 342.8
If Marks and Spencer experiences continued weakness below 342.8, it will ……..
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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 53.8 Percentage Change: + 3.86% Day High: 55 Day Low: 52.6
Target met. Continued trades against RKH with a mid-price ABOVE 55 should ……..
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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1170 Percentage Change: + 9.60% Day High: 1160.5 Day Low: 1087.5
Target met. Continued trades against STAN with a mid-price ABOVE 1160.5 s ……..
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