#Stoxx #Dax Airline pilots must be viewing their exit strategies quite closely, their jobs increasingly looking like they are going to be on the line sometime within living memory. The once prestigious position of “Pilot” should become a fairly early casualty of the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), once the penny drops with a company like Ryanair or Spirit when they appreciate they can plug in a computer in their head office. That computer could be running an AI and in contact with every single aircraft of the fleet, via the StarLink digital satellite hook-up. Due to a pilots job now being checklist based, along with a regime of “If X, then do Y” in the cockpit, an AI could manage an entire fleet quite easily, especially if it were proved an AI could outfly that famous bloke who landed a jet on the Hudson River in New York, due to both engines eating a flock of birds.
While this sounds like a whimsical joke, it can be utterly certain airline companies are actively exploring such a prospect, perhaps relegating any existing pilot to the job of serving coffee and snacks during prolonged periods when supervisory duties in the cockpit were not required. Surely in such a scenario, the pilots would not be on stewardesses wage levels but of course, Ryanair would ensure they only got a salary increase for the minutes and seconds while they attended a cockpit emergency. It would work wonders for profitability, removing the need for two pilots on long haul flights, and allowing cabin crew numbers to be reduced.
Though we’re traditionally anti-flying, the idea of an AI controlling an aircraft isn’t terrifying, due to the vast majority of (thankfully very few) incidents being listed as either Pilot Error or a Boeing 737Max… This sort of thought process also gives some sort of clue as to possible effects as AI creeps into society with a greater force than JCB diggers utterly changing the need for teams of men digging roads. Or cars displacing horses, the internet removing the need for newspapers or TV, or mobile phones making telephones utterly redundant! Despite being extremely cynical at what the media refer to as AI, we’d have to admit the concept is solidly in our department due to our failed attempts to map the entire world stock market back in 2009 and onward. Once we figured out why our model didn’t work, it became easy to decide not to pursue the notion further, not due to a fear of success but rather, a fear of the amount of work required. The easy part was mapping each and every share as a standalone entity to understand how the markets treated them. Things got a little harder with the next bit, integrating these forces into our complex sets of rules, finally being left with a single bit of software which nowadays would be called an AI, its entire job being to map and project a future for a single share. We created an outrageous situation, where we theoretically needed a “Desktop” which had individual icons for every single share trades, along with commodities, or index’. Rather than just a few of us, we’d be waist deep in grunt programmers to make sense of everything.
Instead, we adopted an easy route out, mapping a relatively small number of items, glancing at how prices behaved relative to a very basic trend line, and paying attention to ones which became interesting. It sounds boring but the reality proved quite exciting and fun, especially as few things are more fun than watching a series of targets being met exactly. This proves the eyeball has chosen the correct trend to tell our software what needs mapped against.
However…
With news the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of England are warning the markets risk “abrupt” Stock Market corrections due to the AI boom, we automatically softened our cynical thoughts against AI. This is due to neither the IMF nor the BoE NEVER managing to cover themselves in glory by being right. Instead, they’ve opted to grab headlines with often ridiculous clickbait announcements, seemingly designed to prove they still exist and are important. We suspect absolutely no-one at the BoE has considered the single example of Airline Pilots given above. The “victims” of AI are liable to come from fields few folk consider. But we’d suggest anyone who works in HR should urgently do something to improve their CV.
Our own thinking is AI will always be a little simplistic until such a time, when software driven “thinking” can do something scary and say, “But, what if?”.
Returning to airlines and British Airways (the Sunday name for LSE:IAG) are actually looking like they face some positive price movements, despite the company failing to announce a reduction in their stable of 4,000 pilots, each presumably paid up to 1/2 million dollars per annum. Not a single IAG pilot could disagree with such a statement!
Currently, by closing Wednesday at 400p, IAG achieved an official “higher high”, therefore allowing a positive viewpoint for the fairly near term future.
At present, above 405p should trigger movement to an initial 427p with our secondary, if bettered, calculating at an eventual 502p and some hesitation.
Should things intend go wrong for International Consolidated Airlines (please, change the name, doubt anyone likes writing it), below 385 risks triggering reversal down to an initial 330 and a very possible bounce. Our secondary, if broken, works out at an unlikely 284p.
FUTURES
FUTURES
| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 11:24:26PM | BRENT | 6596.9 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:27:38PM | GOLD | 4013.16 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:42:35PM | FTSE | 9556.3 | Success | ||||||||
| 11:47:09PM | STOX50 | 5655.6 | 5624 | 5617 | 5604 | 5651 | 5657 | 5667 | 5690 | 5624 | Shambles |
| 11:27:00PM | GERMANY | 24645.5 | 24310 | 24208 | 24060 | 24431 | 24649 | 24673 | 24810 | 24561 | Success |
| 11:33:53PM | US500 | 6761 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:36:26PM | DOW | 46643.2 | |||||||||
| 11:40:40PM | NASDAQ | 25169.1 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:44:21PM | JAPAN | 48123 |
8/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9548 points. Change of 0.69%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,461,813,888 a change of 28.82%
7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%
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% 
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
Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **
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Updated charts published on : Anglo American, Aston Martin, Astrazeneca, BALFOUR BEATTY, BP PLC, Glencore Xstra, IQE, Lloyds Grp., Standard Chartered, Zoo Digital,
LSE:AAL Anglo American. Close Mid-Price: 2900 Percentage Change: + 3.24% Day High: 2909 Day Low: 2777
Target met. In the event of Anglo American enjoying further trades beyond ……..
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LSE:AML Aston Martin Close Mid-Price: 67 Percentage Change: -4.96% Day High: 72.15 Day Low: 67.2
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LSE:AZN Astrazeneca. Close Mid-Price: 12806 Percentage Change: + 0.20% Day High: 12972 Day Low: 12776
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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 654.5 Percentage Change: + 0.93% Day High: 656.5 Day Low: 648
Continued trades against BBY with a mid-price ABOVE 656.5 should improve ……..
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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 432.25 Percentage Change: + 0.15% Day High: 436.25 Day Low: 430.3
Above 437 should still trigger movement to an initial 469 with our seconda ……..
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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra Close Mid-Price: 355.75 Percentage Change: -0.24% Day High: 361.05 Day Low: 353.05
Further movement against Glencore Xstra ABOVE 361.05 should improve accel ……..
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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 6.59 Percentage Change: -3.94% Day High: 6.86 Day Low: 6.6
Weakness on IQE below 6.6 will invariably lead to 6.5 with our secondary, ……..
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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 86.38 Percentage Change: + 3.70% Day High: 86.62 Day Low: 84.26
Target met. All Lloyds Grp. needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 86.62 to imp ……..
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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1479.5 Percentage Change: + 2.49% Day High: 1487.5 Day Low: 1449.5
Target met. Further movement against Standard Chartered ABOVE 1487.5 shou ……..
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LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital Close Mid-Price: 11.25 Percentage Change: -2.17% Day High: 11.5 Day Low: 11.25
Weakness on Zoo Digital below 11.25 will invariably lead to 11p with our ……..
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