#FTSE #Gold Our insanely popular FTSE for FRIDAY encapsulates something so obvious, we often forget to mention it! While we throw around trigger levels and targets, we should really emphasise they’re not just for Friday. Assuming folks know we’re not Time Lords and nor do we drive DeLoreans, an inability to time travel shouldn’t be a difficult concept but when the FTSE hit our trigger level (from LAST Friday), the movement to 9075 still caught some users with surprise!
The bankable 79 points, while successful, still managed to take 3 days to achieve our upper target, largely thanks to the FTSE’s parsimonious daily movements until Wednesday of this week. Come Thursday, things appear to have changed as the UK index has now wandered into a zone where fairly strong upward travel has now become possible, perhaps even probable as long as our politicians and central bankers all go to Butlins for August, thus becoming unable to foul up the countries economy. We’re working on the basis “August” shall kick off this week, due to July running out of steam on Thursday.
Should this be the case, it’s now the case above 9179 points looks like the next major trigger for the relatively near term. In this scenario, above such a trigger level calculates with the potential of a lift to an initial 9282 points. Our longer term secondary works out at an astounding 9865 points, though our software warns of a hesitation potential at 9717 points.
But if we discuss the chart, there is a fly in the ointment.
Drawing a boring Red line from April of this year, the market has spent July slithering up a trend, carefully ensuring an uptrend hasn’t been broken. Should this engender optimism or should it warm of caution? The blunt answer is we don’t know, there being no “warning shots” of dips below the trend line. Instead, market gains, while miserly, spent July paying homage to a trend line which makes absolutely no sense. If we treat the FTSE as a share, the lack of any dips below the trend imply a “gotcha” drop may not be ahead. Instead, substantial gains should be anticipated.
However, below 9041 points could prove alarming, risking triggering reversal toward an initial 8816 points and a probable rebound. Our less likely secondary, should such a level break, works out at 8721 points.
Finally, it’s one of the better Grand Prix this weekend, often blessed with wet weather and always blessed with chaotic race rule interpretation. But more importantly, our Sunday Grand Prix lunch cannot be influenced by the hosting country as Belgium isn’t famous for cuisine, aside from being the nation which probably invented what became known as French Fries. While personally, a Sunday lunch of Latte & Chips would be ideal, my wife tends have a different opinion and will doubtless conspire to serve Brussels Sprouts with Chips during the race…
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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 |
| 10:01:02PM | BRENT | 6849.1 | 6848 | 6716 | 6911 | 7112 | 7182 | 6821 | ‘cess | ||
| 10:33:56PM | GOLD | 3368.17 | 3351 | 3329 | 3376 | 3392 | 3407 | 3372 | ‘cess | ||
| 11:42:28PM | FTSE | 9134 | 9096 | 9074 | 9120 | 9158 | 9168 | 9128 | ‘cess | ||
| 11:47:05PM | STOX50 | 5351.7 | 5326 | 5288 | 5362 | 5372 | 5381 | 5354 | |||
| 11:50:56PM | GERMANY | 24278 | 24233 | 24119 | 24330 | 24425 | 24588 | 24240 | |||
| 11:53:22PM | US500 | 6376.2 | 6355 | 6349 | 6368 | 6382 | 6530 | 6274 | ‘cess | ||
| 11:56:34PM | DOW | 44776.1 | 44665 | 44530 | 44811 | 45046 | 45105 | 44818 | Shambles | ||
| 11:58:35PM | NASDAQ | 23257 | 23043 | 22981 | 23170 | 23273 | 23287 | 23215 |
24/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9138 points. Change of 0.85%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,517,760,836 a change of 0.27%
23/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9061 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,503,107,449 a change of 15.9%
22/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9023 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,177,940 a change of -18.75%
21/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9013 points. Change of 0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,844,177,797 a change of 22.54%
18/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8992 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,769,021,038 a change of 5.9%
17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27% 
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.
We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…
Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares
Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:ASC Asos** **LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IPF International Personal Finance** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:SBRY Sainsbury** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **
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Updated charts published on : Asos, Aviva, Barclays, British Telecom, HSBC, International Personal Finance, ITV, Sainsbury, Standard Chartered, Tesco, Vodafone,
LSE:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 364.5 Percentage Change: + 1.25% Day High: 375 Day Low: 356
Further movement against Asos ABOVE 375 should improve acceleration towar ……..
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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 637.8 Percentage Change: + 0.31% Day High: 643 Day Low: 636.2
Continued trades against AV. with a mid-price ABOVE 643 should improve th ……..
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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 358.4 Percentage Change: + 1.86% Day High: 360.9 Day Low: 351.15
Target met. Further movement against Barclays ABOVE 360.9 should improve ……..
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LSE:BT.A British Telecom. Close Mid-Price: 220.2 Percentage Change: + 10.43% Day High: 221.2 Day Low: 199.4
Target met. Further movement against British Telecom ABOVE 221.2 should i ……..
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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 960.9 Percentage Change: + 1.34% Day High: 968.6 Day Low: 954.5
Further movement against HSBC ABOVE 968.6 should improve acceleration tow ……..
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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 183 Percentage Change: + 0.99% Day High: 183 Day Low: 181.2
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LSE:ITV ITV. Close Mid-Price: 87.8 Percentage Change: + 13.29% Day High: 88.25 Day Low: 80.35
Target met. Further movement against ITV ABOVE 88.25 should improve accel ……..
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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury. Close Mid-Price: 305 Percentage Change: + 1.53% Day High: 304.8 Day Low: 298.6
Continued trades against SBRY with a mid-price ABOVE 304.8 should improve ……..
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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1345.5 Percentage Change: + 1.39% Day High: 1361 Day Low: 1339
Target met. In the event of Standard Chartered enjoying further trades be ……..
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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 428 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 431.6 Day Low: 426.4
Further movement against Tesco ABOVE 431.6 should improve acceleration to ……..
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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 86.02 Percentage Change: + 3.44% Day High: 87.48 Day Low: 82.58
Target met. Further movement against Vodafone ABOVE 87.48 should improve ……..
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