@GOLD @SP500 I suspect most folk involved with the stock market hold fairly ambivalent views about the betting industry, probably regarding some of Entain’s online products with some distain as what we do is nothing like Foxy Bingo. We’ll happily go to a proper casino, having decided how many hundred pounds we intend to lose gambling but, what we all do isn’t gambling. Unfortunately, when logging into Spread Bet companies, there’s usually horrific warnings about how many folk lose money on the platforms.
But heck, whatever you do is a gamble. If taking a job, you are betting on the competence of the folk running the company, if driving you bet on the competence of other road users, and if getting married, you are betting on the continued sanity of your partner and failing to understand they will spend an entire year buying different toilet roll holders, expecting each one fitted and tried for a few days, weeks or months. Okay, there’s a personal dig going on here as the need to entirely remodel the bathroom came about due to her final selection of a dispenser for toilet paper. It’s a crafty design, a short black horizontal rod which the loo roll slides over. In other words, we returned to the “basic wheel” and an admission you cannot improve on the wheel. Unfortunately, every previous fitting experiment inflicted damage on the wetwall, creating a domino effect which led to remodelling… Didn’t bet on that!
Gambling always has been part of life, though thankfully few folk in the UK find themselves at Australian levels, where two guys will cheerfully bet on the speed of two raindrops sliding down a window!
Looking at betting company Entain’s share price, we’re not entirely full of optimism as it appears weakness anytime soon risks promoting reversal to an initial 635p with our secondary, if broken, at a bottom of 465p. It has been reported institutional shareholders own 61% of the company and we wonder whether the recent Government mugging in the budget by increasing gambling taxes will provoke some cautionary pressure from the effective owners of the organisation, institutional types traditionally afraid of their own shadow.
Of course, there’s a more positive scenario available. Movement above the Blue downtrend since 2001, currently 893p, indicates the potential of a share price lift to 988 initially. Our longer term secondary, if this initial is exceeded, works out at 1118p eventually. This scenario contains a bit of a bombshell, showing a long term attraction as coming from 1835p. This ambition makes quite a lot of visual sense, a scenario worth betting on?
Meanwhile, here in Argyll, we had a dry day where it was also above freezing. As a result, our little cottage finally had Christmas lights fitted to the front of the house, even garden bushes (all mostly dead) finding themselves with lights intertwined. In conclusion, don’t grow up to have grandchildren as you find yourself doing the most absurd things to try and impress them. More amusingly, we’d a string of faulty Christmas tree lights which only flash on and off. We decided to string them at the top of the back garden, lighting up the front of the forest and probably giving squirrel, pine martens, and our crows sleepless nights.
FUTURES
FUTURES
| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 11:21:37PM | BRENT | 6243.5 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:25:05PM | GOLD | 4193.63 | 4176 | 4154 | 4119 | 4196 | 4219 | 4236 | 4256 | 4199 | |
| 11:28:14PM | FTSE | 9642.9 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:38:36PM | STOX50 | 5719.6 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:41:17PM | GERMANY | 24041.2 | |||||||||
| 11:44:40PM | US500 | 6858 | 6827 | 6816 | 6790 | 6856 | 6859 | 6866 | 6879 | 6840 | |
| 11:47:45PM | DOW | 47748.6 | |||||||||
| 11:50:31PM | NASDAQ | 25677.9 | |||||||||
| 11:55:54PM | JAPAN | 50470 |
8/12/2025 FTSE Closed at 9645 points. Change of -0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,203,421,137 a change of 3.99%
5/12/2025 FTSE Closed at 9667 points. Change of -0.44%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,003,675,648 a change of -20.4%
4/12/2025 FTSE Closed at 9710 points. Change of 0.19%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,286,205,585 a change of -7.45%
3/12/2025 FTSE Closed at 9692 points. Change of -0.09%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,792,103,773 a change of -9.49%
2/12/2025 FTSE Closed at 9701 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,504,463,806 a change of 24.89%
1/12/2025 FTSE Closed at 9702 points. Change of -0.19%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,008,942,669 a change of 26.85%
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% 
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 : Diageo, ECO (Atlantic) O & G, Oxford Instruments, SAGA Plc,
LSE:DGE Diageo Close Mid-Price: 1644.5 Percentage Change: -1.56% Day High: 1671.5 Day Low: 1628.5
Target met. Weakness on Diageo below 1628.5 will invariably lead to 1618p ……..
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LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G. Close Mid-Price: 15.25 Percentage Change: + 48.06% Day High: 15.5 Day Low: 9.9
All ECO (Atlantic) O & G needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 15.5 to improve ……..
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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments Close Mid-Price: 2075 Percentage Change: -3.49% Day High: 2195 Day Low: 2090
Continued trades against OXIG with a mid-price ABOVE 2195 should improve ……..
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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 317.5 Percentage Change: + 8.36% Day High: 320 Day Low: 309
Target met. In the event of SAGA Plc enjoying further trades beyond 320, ……..
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