#FTSE #Nasdaq Every now and then, it appears sanity re-enters the world and absently opening a bottle of Lime juice provided great pause for thought. There was no longer a ridiculous plastic tie, attaching the lid to the base! Extracting a bottle of cola from the cupboard, once again the hated plastic tie was no longer in evidence. Hopefully this initiative shall extend beyond the particular manufacturer and once again free the soft drink industry to continue polluting the worlds oceans with absolutely nothing new!
It’s funny, our personal hobby of making wine has taught several lessons. Firstly, bottle the stuff is a pain, fitting corks is an expensive nuisance, and shrink wrapping the top and bottle neck a time consuming exercise in proving how impatient the holder of a hairdryer can be. To be completely honest, the vast majority of our wine production is given away to friends, especially as we’ve “cracked” Rioja and Chardonnay. Obviously, these chums give back the empty bottles, these things being placed on an outdoors “wine rack” behind the shed, where we expect the weather to remove the sticker from the bottle. After it’s cleaned by nature, it only needs sterilised before re-use (aka dumped in a 25 litre tub for 20 mns) then filled again. All things considered, the process of meeting expectations has become tiresome.
We tried using 2 litre plastic soft drink bottles but actually had complaints from our friends, saying it cheapened the product and made them feel they could consume an entire bottle in a single evening, forgetting it was real alcohol until a sharp reminder when they awoke late the following morning (or afternoon) . Apparently bottles provide a further method for society to moderate their greed. We’re about to toss a problem at them all.
It turns out we can buy “wine bags”, the containers used within Wine Boxes, and they are not expensive. The current run of Merlot is going to be bagged in 3 litre containers which will give a long life to the wine. There’s no need for the juice to be consumed within days of it being opened, the bag not needing to suck in air to allow wine to be poured. Instead, the bag deflates, keeping the fresh wine quaffable. Always assuming the stuff is deemed okay, when it’s tasted in a few days, we’re going for a “bottling” of 7 wine bags and just 5 bottles being labelled and sealed.
However, it must be admitted, few things are nicer than standing in front of a big wine rack, pondering the correct choice for that evenings dinner and knowing the quality of each bottle can be assured. Aside from that 2024 Shiraz which remains dodgy, even after 11 months…
So, if a sign of a return to sanity can be attributed to how bottle tops are fitted, what the heck are we to think of the Middle East? We happily wrote about an oil extraction company in Scotland who it turns out are owned by an Israeli based company, Delek. As a result, we became curious as to how the Israel markets themselves are doing, despite Israel joining Russia on the worlds naughty step. It was actually fairly difficult to find data relating to Israel, many of the big providers opting to dodge listing Tel Aviv. It transpired TradingView, a company we often rely on for data, were the only “biggie” giving reliable data and their chart is below.
We’ve an interest in the Middle East shambles, one which obviously risks bias in our commentary, as a family member was raising her 6 children in Tel Aviv. For some reason, she’s got some strong views on what’s happened to her part of the world! For safety sake, the family has now opted to move to Jerusalem but her views on the conflict remain strong, a resolution that no matter what, Israel shall remain. Padding her family story out a bit, after the events of 2023, they opted to move from Manhattan, NY, to Israel to express solidarity rather than feel they were refugees from the country. The question must be asked, how many people would return to defend the UK, if people in Wales decided to attack the rest of the country?
The Tel Aviv index has experienced a pretty steady expression of confidence since the start of 2024, moving from around 1600 points to a current 3054 points, nearly double their starting point. Comparing this to the UK for the same period, we’re looking at movement from 7700 points to a current 9200 points, a pretty useless movement, basically reflecting inflation along with the country currency strength against the US dollar. The real lack of UK economic growth has been given by the UK Office of National Statistics, confirming a lack of confidence in the country. While Israel, despite a constant war footing and terrorism acts, has managed to enjoy a stock market and economy which has virtually doubled.
As for Tel Aviv, it now looks like some reversals are coming, the index needing to rise above just 3065 to cancel the immediate prospect of trouble. Instead, it’s now the case below 3024 points risks reversals to an initial 2854 points with our secondary, if broken, at 2804 points and hopefully a bounce.
However… we’ve a suspicion the current slight reversal shall prove to be a fake as above 3065 points should allow Tel Aviv to move to an initial 3,266 points with our secondary, if bettered, at 3,459 points. Visually, the implication of gains looks fairly straightforward and worth keeping an eye on. However, due to most data and trading organisations pretending Israel and Russia don’t exist, it’s likely few people will be able to follow such a path.
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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 |
| 11:13:49PM | BRENT | 6829.9 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:18:15PM | GOLD | 3694.78 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:20:16PM | FTSE | 9195.2 | 9189 | 9169 | 9112 | 9235 | 9262 | 9283 | 9314 | 9232 | Success |
| 11:22:18PM | STOX50 | 5387 | Shambles | ||||||||
| 11:25:38PM | GERMANY | 23399 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:28:30PM | US500 | 6611.9 | |||||||||
| 11:07:25PM | DOW | 45790 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:12:33PM | NASDAQ | 24294 | 24225 | 24184 | 24116 | 24309 | 24310 | 24343 | 24764 | 24260 | ‘cess |
| 11:15:20PM | JAPAN | 44665 |
16/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9195 points. Change of -0.88%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,836,701,503 a change of 13.9%
15/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9277 points. Change of -0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,124,504,308 a change of 3.82%
12/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9283 points. Change of -0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,936,038,879 a change of -3.79%
11/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9297 points. Change of 0.78%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,130,576,096 a change of -11.59%
10/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9225 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,802,988,432 a change of 11.05%
9/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9242 points. Change of 0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,225,634,176 a change of 25.23%
8/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9221 points. Change of 0.14%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,172,667,369 a change of -14.19% 
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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