#FTSE #Nasdaq With a perfect lack of good timing, Babcock chose the wrong FTSE session to show off some polished results, along with news of a share buyback.. Still, they closed the session up 10.75% which didn’t stink, especially as the FTSE could only manage a -0.46% day! But what really caught our attention was we’d reviewed the company just three months ago, giving 1042p as a fairly major target, a share price the company has spent most of June bouncing around. In other words, it was certainly time for a smug grin.
Babcock, whose share price has doubled this year, certainly are luxuriating in the threat of increasing military tensions, along with the US administration “suggesting” a commitment of 5% of GDP be spent on defence. It’s strange, personally being fascinated by all these military toys, along with a well tuned degree of utter distrust in politicians motives for using them! Ideally, my favourite military would spend the year holding pageants in every major city, along with giving dates and times for low level fly pasts of training aircraft. It would work wonders for the sale of polish and assorted cleaning paraphanalia, along with giving plenty of requirements to buy proper camera’s rather than the substandard results from mobile phones which are really designed to produce “selfies”.
Then again, North Korea is quite “big” on military parades!
However, by moving beyond our previous 1042p, Babcock share price has movements into a zone where movement next above 1,176 should next provoke gains to an initial 1,260p, along with some almost certain hesitation. Our secondary, should the share price close above such a level calculates at a future 1,528p. This would represent a new all time high, doubtless forcing us to once again visit Babcock and review their share price.
If things intend go wrong, the price needs fail below a ridiculous sounding and looking 512p.
For now, it appears while Babcock shall doubtless experience the travails of an often insane FTSE 100, the long term underlying trend seems to be pushing upward and even though there’s an expectation some dramatic drops will doubtless ensue in the months ahead, we’re more focussed on the future. Unless, of course, if discovers an excuse to visit below 512p. Early warning will come with movement below a silly sounding 615p.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 9:55:52PM | BRENT | 6636 | |||||||||
| 10:00:08PM | GOLD | 3332.33 | |||||||||
| 10:12:12PM | FTSE | 8704.3 | 8700 | 8684 | 8637 | 8722 | 8764 | 8791 | 8821 | 8743 | Success |
| 10:56:37PM | STOX50 | 5253.3 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:05:53PM | GERMANY | 23496 | |||||||||
| 11:08:30PM | US500 | 6094.8 | |||||||||
| 11:11:43PM | DOW | 42987.7 | |||||||||
| 11:14:18PM | NASDAQ | 22254.5 | 23165 | 22108 | 22036 | 22240 | 22326 | 22402 | 22552 | 22165 | |
| 11:17:01PM | JAPAN | 39000 |
25/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8718 points. Change of -0.46%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,755,869,829 a change of -23.33%
24/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8758 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,507,244,124 a change of 60.9%
23/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8758 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,665,666,044 a change of -66.2%
20/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of -0.19%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 13,804,431,161 a change of 245.4%
19/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8791 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,996,665,836 a change of -22.28%
18/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8843 points. Change of 0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,142,450,151 a change of -29%
17/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8834 points. Change of -0.46%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,242,544,038 a change of 37.46% 
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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