The much vaunted Corriedale episode had everything, almost. Guilt tripped into watching it, tolerating 46 minutes of contrived chaos proved amusing, despite lacking the tongue in cheek violence of a John Wicks movie. It had almost everything, a mad woman locked in a bathroom, a gun, a fire, a body count to make an American TV writer salivate, car crashes, more bleeding foreheads than an Australian TV shaving tutorial, a taxi sitting with the meter running while everything unfolded, a pregnant lady’s water breaking, and even a free bar. As the breathtaking drama ground to an end, sharp eyed viewers may even have noticed a test tube loaded with the next strain of Covid slowly rolling under a 10 Ton road roller driven by the ‘abhorrent Tommy Robinson’ or maybe it was ‘mad Katy Hopkins’ at the car crash site.. They certainly worked hard to go over the top and dive to the bottom of the barrel, a box ticking exercise the (now unemployed) Dr Who writers would have been proud of.
For this viewer, accidentally watching ‘Kung Fu Panda’ earlier in the day (while repairing a fiddly Epson R265 printer paper feed) was more entertaining!
A New Year commitment to spend at least an hour per week watching UK TV with my wife was almost fulfilled! Hopefully Jeremy Clarkson’s latest “Millionaire” gig will enable the promise to be kept. A personal line has been drawn at Eastenders, a program with the personal appeal of The Sun, The Mirror, The Daily Mail, BBC “news you can trust”, or picking a copy of the Guardian / Telegraph out of life’s gutter.
A few emails drifted in, asking us to take a look at Vistry as apparently their share price is starting to become interesting.
At first glance, visually this is indeed the case and our diatribe against the UK media mindset may prove rather prescient in this instance. We’ve been conditioned to believe everything is always bad in the UK but – aside from the weather – this isn’t the case. It’s just a case of sloppy, unimaginative, journalists repeated the mantra that “Bad News Sells”, generating a never ending stream of clickbait nonsense. An easy instance was Rolls Royce and their modular nuclear reactors, capable of being parked alongside a river near you, and curing any energy crisis. Rolls Royce share price grew from 67p in 2022 to 1,244p currently. But the media adhered to their “Nuclear Bad” stance, reminding everyone of this nuclear disaster in Japan which yielded just one nuclear powered death, rather inconveniently for those revelling in the Tsunami disaster. Neither newspapers nor the broadcast media dared admit the reality of the nuclear situation, their attempts to insinuate the end of the world was coming fading away when compared with actual reality.
This, obviously, has absolutely nothing to do with Vistry Group, other than to celebrate it’s perhaps not worth believing any headlines as they are always wrong (unless for our own articles!).
When Bovis Homes bought Galliford Try in early 2020, with exquisite timing they chose an expansion just as everything hit the Covid fan. It would be difficult to describe a messier business decision, other than the time Butlins opened a bunch of holiday camps in Germany in early 1939 (ED: Didn’t happen). Vistry Group, quickly born from the buyout, appears to be a fairly successful attempt to leave the negative coverage of their previous names behind. Better still, from our perspective, there is a fairly positive take on what the future holds.
The immediate Blue downtrend dates back to 2024 and while the share has behaved quite dreadfully, there are definite signals promising a reasonable future may lie ahead.
With the share price presently trading at 658p, we can suggest CLOSURE above 678p is necessary to produce Big Picture movement to an initial 707p with our secondary, if bettered, a pretty confident 729p. The obvious proximity of these target levels suggests a degree of hesitation may be waiting in the future but for now, it visually doesn’t stink. This brings us to the “Game Changer” potential for the longer term as it’s clear the share price needs close a session above 700p to justify a mad dash down to the local shop to buy a Party Popper. From our perspective, this shall prove quite a big deal, calculating with long term ambitions echoing down from a future 900p, perhaps even 933p.
Hopefully Vistry don’t find a bunch of mature, ancient, trees to cut down and once again chainsaw off their potentials!
FUTURES
FUTURES
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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 |
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10:09:20PM |
BRENT |
6001.8 |
5993 |
5949 |
5915 |
6022 |
6121 |
6177 |
6238 |
6057 |
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10:13:22PM |
GOLD |
4479.02 |
‘cess |
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10:17:49PM |
FTSE |
10108 |
Success |
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10:20:01PM |
STOX50 |
5939.6 |
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10:37:10PM |
GERMANY |
24964.7 |
24834 |
24777 |
24708 |
24924 |
24984 |
25050 |
25362 |
24864 |
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10:42:50PM |
US500 |
6947.3 |
‘cess |
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10:49:13PM |
DOW |
49495.5 |
‘cess |
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10:52:39PM |
NASDAQ |
25649.1 |
‘cess |
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11:57:14PM |
JAPAN |
52335 |
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6/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10122 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,652,466,467 a change of 0%
5/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10004 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,250,989,253 a change of 0% 
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.
We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…
Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares
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Updated charts published on : Anglo American, Aviva, Barclays, MAN, Fresnillo, Glencore Xstra, HSBC, British Airways, IG Group, Lloyds Grp., National Glib, Natwest, Primary Health, Rolls Royce, SAGA Plc, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, Vodafone,
LSE:AAL Anglo American. Close Mid-Price: 3257 Percentage Change: + 3.66% Day High: 3263 Day Low: 3149
Target met. All Anglo American needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 3263 to i ……..
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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 690 Percentage Change: + 0.44% Day High: 700.6 Day Low: 687.6
Continued trades against AV. with a mid-price ABOVE 700.6 should improve ……..
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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 488.4 Percentage Change: + 0.36% Day High: 492.95 Day Low: 485.15
All Barclays needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 492.95 to improve accelerat ……..
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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 254.8 Percentage Change: + 9.36% Day High: 252.6 Day Low: 235.6
Target met. Further movement against MAN ABOVE 252.6 should improve accel ……..
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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 3678 Percentage Change: + 5.21% Day High: 3628 Day Low: 3442
All Fresnillo needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 3628 to improve accelerati ……..
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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 427.95 Percentage Change: + 2.06% Day High: 428.75 Day Low: 421.25
Further movement against Glencore Xstra ABOVE 428.75 should improve accel ……..
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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1217.4 Percentage Change: + 0.84% Day High: 1227 Day Low: 1212
Target met. In the event of HSBC enjoying further trades beyond 1227, the ……..
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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 437 Percentage Change: + 2.80% Day High: 436.5 Day Low: 425.5
All British Airways needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 436.5 to improve ac ……..
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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1342 Percentage Change: + 0.98% Day High: 1349 Day Low: 1329
All IG Group needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 1349 to improve acceleratio ……..
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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 100.3 Percentage Change: + 0.34% Day High: 101.7 Day Low: 100.05
In the event of Lloyds Grp. enjoying further trades beyond 101.7, the sha ……..
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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1172 Percentage Change: + 1.91% Day High: 1185 Day Low: 1141.5
Further movement against National Glib ABOVE 1185 should improve accelera ……..
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LSE:NWG Natwest Close Mid-Price: 660.6 Percentage Change: -0.75% Day High: 674.2 Day Low: 660.4
In the event of Natwest enjoying further trades beyond 674.2, the share s ……..
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LSE:PHP Primary Health Close Mid-Price: 97.7 Percentage Change: -0.31% Day High: 98.5 Day Low: 97.4
All Primary Health needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 98.5 to improve accel ……..
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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1244.5 Percentage Change: + 1.06% Day High: 1269.5 Day Low: 1235
Target met. Continued trades against RR. with a mid-price ABOVE 1269.5 sh ……..
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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 408 Percentage Change: + 6.39% Day High: 413.5 Day Low: 382
Further movement against SAGA Plc ABOVE 413.5 should improve acceleration ……..
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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1208 Percentage Change: + 0.67% Day High: 1218 Day Low: 1195
Target met. In the event of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust enjoying f ……..
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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 100.5 Percentage Change: + 0.70% Day High: 101.9 Day Low: 100.15
Continued trades against VOD with a mid-price ABOVE 101.9 should improve ……..
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