#Gold #SP500 Unusually, todays snapshot has a direct relationship to the subject under discussion, Saga Plc. One day last year, opening the bedroom curtains revealed this cruise ship parked outside, it being pretty unusual for large ships to visit the Holy Loch here in Argyll. While the deepwater anchorage should be attractive, the local tourism folk do literally nothing to attract maritime traffic. This results in a situation where visitors disembark their launches at the local marina petrol station, picking their way through the usual detritus which clutters up a working marina, on their way toward a luxury coach waiting to take them somewhere else.
In the case of the boat below, this was a SAGA cruise and it disgorged a stream of “older people”, some heading to Benmore Botanic Gardens, others choosing Inverarey Castle. Hopefully none of them chose the local town, Dunoon, as it’s a perfect example of a seaside town being left to die, simply due to Scottish politicians who don’t find the small electorate useful. The area is actually NOT an island, vaguely served by a road which needs big LED signs scattered throughout the area, letting drivers know if the road is open or not, big landslides being a major problem. But the area is amazing, a massive coastline and pretty mountains, a potential tourism honeytrap proving difficult to reach and served by an obscenely expensive ferry service, owned by a Swedish company.
But the arrival of a SAGA ship managed to get the local council excited for a couple of days, encouraging stories placed with the local newspaper, and ultimately nothing changed. Once upon a time, the area was served quite differently, there being large piers capable of handling ships placed every two miles on the North side of the Holy Loch. From the 19th to the mid 20th Century, there was vibrant cruise tourism to the area, greatly diminished once air travel opened, allowing scruffy Scots to visit Spain, a country where the sun apparently shines…
As the chart shows, SAGA share price has been enjoying a prolonged afternoon nap since the Covid-19 fall of 2020 but it has recently been showing signs of waking up. We’re now looking for movement above 299p as this should trigger recovery to an initial 316p. If exceeded, our longer term secondary target works out at 384p. While the visuals indicate a strong potential for hesitation at 384p, achievement of such a target should prove useful from a Big Picture perspective as closure above such a level takes the value into a zone where a cycle to 560p should become valid.
If things intend go wrong for SAGA, the share price needs below 227p to foul things up totally but for now, we’re fairly impressed with its potentials and shall be keeping an eye on them.
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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 |
| 11:30:10PM | BRENT | 6544.3 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:40:48PM | GOLD | 3970.63 | 3926 | 3910 | 3888 | 3950 | 3978 | 3983 | 3996 | 3945 | Success |
| 11:43:03PM | FTSE | 9467.7 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:45:32PM | STOX50 | 5632.2 | |||||||||
| 11:48:27PM | GERMANY | 24427.7 | |||||||||
| 11:33:25PM | US500 | 6729.3 | 6718 | 6711 | 6699 | 6738 | 6745 | 6752 | 6763 | 6725 | |
| 11:35:49PM | DOW | 46628.1 | |||||||||
| 11:40:11PM | NASDAQ | 24927.7 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:45:09PM | JAPAN | 48278 |
6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%
3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%
2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%
1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%
30/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9350 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,823,355,297 a change of 26.57%
29/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9299 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,390,872,598 a change of -5.48%
26/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9284 points. Change of 0.77%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,703,129,904 a change of 4.79% 
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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