#Brent #SP500 The weather here in Argyll was pretty vile over the weekend, the weather gods deciding we deserved a greater share of rainfall before November ends. Tasked with fitting external Christmas lights to our highland cottage, the concept of messing around with electricity in the rain wasn’t terribly attractive. And years of marriage has taught to NEVER get involved in Christmas decorations unless my wife specifically asks. While I was making our traditional Sunday morning bacon rolls and coffees, my other half went into a very audible meltdown. I’d assembled our 8 foot tall Christmas tree on the Saturday and she’d embedded the inevitable LED lights in the branches.
The lights stopped working, shortly after she tested them, when the job was nearly finished and she was inventing very unfestive swear words on the spot. My rule of thumb, when LED’s have issues, is to check the heat of the plug voltage adaptor. If it’s hot, don’t waste time as the thing is probably burnt out and irreparable. The plug adaptor was absurdly hot! She unwound the lights from the tree and with an alarming oops, managed to snap the top 1/3rd of the tree off when she almost fell off a stool. It was hard not to laugh but with my wife, her annual Christmas tree project is quite a big deal. If I didn’t do something quickly, I was going to find myself heading into the forest with chainsaw to hunt down an acceptable tree.
Examining the broken tree and deciding it was the immediate problem, it was clear I could make a steel sleeve which would slot into the main body, allowing the broken upper 1/3rd to attach. Couldn’t be easier as historically I’m one of those dreadful hoarders who keeps bits and pieces as they could be useful one day. Some chrome steel tubing (from a clothes rail) volunteered for the job, so it was time for the angle grinder in the garden shed to modify a 20cm length with a pair of 5cm slots at each end. Job done, leaving the shed I glanced down our driveway, nodding at a bunch of churchgoers walking past the house. At this point, the realisation my clothing was a dressing gown and (waterproof) slippers hit home. Back in the lounge at the massacred tree, my quick repair job was hammered into place, the top 1/3rd of the tree also slotting into place once a few layers of duct tape were wound around it. Aside from the chrome core, along with the detail the tree had just grown 10cm, things were perfect and my bacon roll wasn’t even cold. My wife, delighted, wound some green tinsel around the chrome sleeve and discovered a roll of my external lights looked ideal to fit the tree. She did have some sharp criticism of the fact I’d been working outside in just a dressing gown, naively thinking no-one would have seen me… I’m fairly sure one of our fairly close neighbours will ask what the heck I was doing with power tools, so early on a Sunday morning. By 5pm, we had a very classic looking tree, tastefully decorated, and doubtless able to impress our grandchildren (who will not notice).
A fairly normal weekend, here in wet and cold Argyll. And the garden lights remain unfitted…
As illustrated above, during December, the markets mind may be on other (less important) things and strange this can happen. With the FTSE or even the Retail Bank shares, there is a strong underlying force pointing upward
When we reviewed Lloyds three weeks ago, we proposed a scenario where above 92.25p should promote the concept of some decent upward travel, if we trust a 16 year old down trend. So far, things feel like they are going well. Above 98p should bring movement to an initial 104p and some hesitation. If bettered, our secondary for the longer term (or between Christmas and New Year) works out at 113.5p. This festive season target level works on the basis the market is fascinated by some nutcase grinding steel on a Sunday morning, wearing just a dressing gown and safety glasses. But to be honest, Rachel from Accounts shall doubtless prove capable of provoking better entertainment for the UK.
Should the market decide a slowdown is in order, below 85p would now prove troubling, giving an initial ambition down at 77 with our secondary, if broken, calculating at a troubling 66p. The reason this would prove a worry is it gives the share price the potential of closing a session below 74p, effectively trashing all our upward potentials. But only if the market closes below 74p.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop |
| 10:49:04PM | BRENT | 6229.4 | 6210 | 6186 | 6136 | 6278 | 6337 | 6392 | 6491 | 6252 |
| 11:22:46PM | GOLD | 4217.79 | ||||||||
| 12:41:19AM | FTSE | 9711.3 | ||||||||
| 12:43:05AM | STOX50 | 5672.2 | ||||||||
| 12:49:54AM | GERMANY | 23837.4 | ||||||||
| 1:37:45AM | US500 | 6845.2 | 6808 | 6792 | 6772 | 6822 | 6854 | 6903 | 7035 | 6821 |
| 1:43:55AM | DOW | 47702 | ||||||||
| 1:50:18AM | NASDAQ | 25427.7 |
28/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9720 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,737,137,664 a change of -21.39%
27/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9693 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,026,345,245 a change of -20.1%
26/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9691 points. Change of 0.85%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,542,003,610 a change of 18.39%
25/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9609 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,370,501,929 a change of -51.58%
24/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9534 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 13,156,523,796 a change of 87.85%
21/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9539 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,003,826,108 a change of 23.05%
20/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9527 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,692,009,331 a change of -8.32% 
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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Updated charts published on : Barclays, BALFOUR BEATTY, Block Energy PLC, Fresnillo, Natwest, Quadrise, Standard Chartered, Tern Plc,
LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 430.25 Percentage Change: + 0.07% Day High: 432.35 Day Low: 429
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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 704 Percentage Change: + 0.57% Day High: 707 Day Low: 695.5
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LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC Close Mid-Price: 0.65 Percentage Change: -7.14% Day High: 0.7 Day Low: 0.65
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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2634 Percentage Change: + 1.93% Day High: 2664 Day Low: 2584
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LSE:NWG Natwest Close Mid-Price: 632.2 Percentage Change: -0.03% Day High: 636 Day Low: 630.4
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LSE:QED Quadrise Close Mid-Price: 2.7 Percentage Change: -10.00% Day High: 2.76 Day Low: 2.36
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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1673.5 Percentage Change: + 0.45% Day High: 1683 Day Low: 1650
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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 0.35 Percentage Change: -22.22% Day High: 0.4 Day Low: 0.35
If Tern Plc experiences continued weakness below 0.35, it will invariably ……..
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