#FTSE #Nasdaq “Shenzhenshidongruihanjieshebeigufenyouxiangongsi ” will be covered in paragraph two below! The most recent initiative to get folk back into the office, escaping the pyjama world of home working, has been to allow folk to return to the office, with their dogs. The constant efforts to make corporate office working attractive again are a bit amusing, effectively an admission the historical environment wasn’t conducive to a good place to work. Perhaps this sort of thinking contributes to the harsh fact International Workplace profits dropped in the first six months of this year, only US$12 as opposed to a previous US$32. Their share price got a solid write up from the markets.
As for “shenzhenshidongruihanjieshebeigufenyouxiangongsi“, this was the hilarious first line of the address from an eBay seller which only appeared AFTER the purchase. Generally we’re careful to buy from UK based companies and suppliers, a portable TIG welding plant from a supplier in Manchester was attractively priced, promising delivery by Thursday of this week. To explain, deciding to build a wine fermentation “shed” which would accommodate my latest hobby, made me realise there was quite a bit to consider. I’ve been used to lifting 30 litre containers to a certain height, pumping the content (without the grotty stuff at the bottom) into another sanitised container, and again letting things settle for a while, then decanting it again. It’s all a bit fussy, especially if you’ve stabilised the temperature of the initial fermentation between 26c and 29c for 7+ days.
Essentially, I designed something which looks like a mini oil refinery as it also includes my secret weapon, creating distilled water for the fermentation mix. My existing welding plant could perhaps be described as a little energetic, unable to handle welding pipework or smaller tight jobs. In other words, it burns holes through thin metal. After finding the exact welding plant I wanted on eBay, an order was placed and due to the product coming from Manchester, the Post Office tracking information was forwarded. It transpires I’d bought from a Chinese company in Guangdong in China, who it appears have shipped a pile of stock to Manchester and thus convince folk they are buying via a UK company. Oops. Hopefully the product is genuine, despite the company name looking like a Welsh nightmare!
There is an end game to this wine fascination, an intention of producing something red of the quality of Chateauneuf du Pape. In the meantime, it’s wonderful to browse a wine rack the weekends, deciding whether to try a Rioja, a Merlot, a Shiraz, or whatever. Or “just” choose our astounding Pinot Gris which is somehow improving with age. Neither this white wine nor our Rioja are given away to friends… It can be assumed we’re developing considerable suspicion about these “Wine Club” companies who flog cases of wine, since discovering wine concentrate can be purchased for home fermentation, making it relatively easy to produce product which, with a little care, is considerably better quality than anything bought in a supermarket. Personally, a dislike of adding anything which ends in either ” ‘ate or ‘ite’ ” after initial fermentation, led to the decision to use purified distilled water when making wine. Our Pinot Gris, excellent from Day One of bottling, continues to improve and a clarity is almost dodgy, challenging spring water in a glass. Except it is super, without any added chemicals.
As for International Workspace Group share price, it certainly has the potential for some real trouble, considerably worse than the market reaction to their financial results. We previously reviewed this share back in March 2025 and the price triggered and successfully achieved our primary and secondary targets. It even exceeded our secondary level, repeatedly closing above the 220p point and looking pretty well set for a future we hadn’t yet mapped. But with this set of financial results, things have become a little skewed as the price now needs exceed 220p to hopefully trigger recovery to an initial 230p with our secondary, if bettered, a longer term 252p and taken into a zone where a Big Picture 283p is exerting a gravitic influence. Visually, it even makes some sense.
However, the immediate situation is a little dodgy as the share price – from our perspective – cannot afford to close below 188p. This would be a bad thing, allowing future traffic downward to an initial 176p with our secondary of 156p, keeping the share price trapped in a zone from which it shall be difficult to escape. Our suspicion is this is about to head upward, once some dramatics are concluded. After all, any company which approves of dogs will always get our vote.
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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 |
| 11:24:10PM | BRENT | 6550.6 | |||||||||
| 11:26:56PM | GOLD | 3315.94 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:33:19PM | FTSE | 9178.5 | 9154 | 9148 | 9138 | 9182 | 9198 | 9220 | 9252 | 9158 | |
| 11:35:19PM | STOX50 | 5464.7 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:38:45PM | GERMANY | 24339 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:43:02PM | US500 | 6413.6 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:45:57PM | DOW | 44935.1 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:48:22PM | NASDAQ | 23382 | 23344 | 23300 | 23077 | 23435 | 23509 | 23571 | 23646 | 23364 | Success |
| 11:50:47PM | JAPAN | 43412 |
19/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9189 points. Change of 0.35%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,525,328,498 a change of 36.03%
18/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9157 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,796,925,972 a change of -21.07%
15/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9138 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,077,567,012 a change of 24.32%
14/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,888,645,281 a change of -12.34%
13/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9165 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,576,963,719 a change of 12.35%
12/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9147 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,963,866,673 a change of 14.87%
11/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9129 points. Change of 0.37%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,321,122,132 a change of -15.66% 
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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