#Brent #Dax It used to be the case, ATM’s were called the “Hole in the Wall” with Natwest, achieving local fame in Ilkeston by installing a hole in the wall beside their hole in the wall, thus allowing users of the Cash Machine to see if anyone was loitering out of sight behind an adjacent wall. It made perfect sense, this quick and simple security measure even turning into a local treasure, even achieving comments on Trip Advisor probably placed by locals who really need to get a life. But for some strange reason, Natwest decided their hole in the wall would be improved with a horizontal steel bar, eight years after the initial installation. The new horizontal bar lasted less than 12 hours before the bank decided to remove it. There is certainly plenty of food for thought here, firstly about the mindset at Natwest who decided the hole needed an obstruction and secondly, who the heck felt it worthwhile creating complaints about a metal bar which accomplished nothing.
We can only assume the folk at Natwest are feeling flush with funds, the company share price “doing okay”, and suddenly corporate feeling they could catch up on long desired projects such as the major installation of a bit of metal, obviously someone’s pet project which had been shelved. Doubtless, another branch of the bank will find itself with a car park, additional paintwork indicating where horses are to be tied up… Who knows.
At the start of the year, we gave some criteria for happy days for the share price, criteria which has been utterly ignored while political drama intruded, giving pretend reasons for stock market hesitation. Did anyone ever believe President Trump would invade Greenland. Even the Greenlanders don’t want to invade the place! But he did wake up Europe with some pretty convincing reasons why closer attention should be paid to the area. We still suspect the island shall end up as US protectorate, finding itself hosting a new port, all weather airport, and several MacDonalds.
Though Natwest ignored our 670p trigger, it remains a viable trigger level which should allow us to demand a festival, due to fireworks pointing at an initial 683p with our secondary, if exceeded, now calculating at a happier 702p. In fact, once the share price closes above 670p, we shall regard a future 786p as exerting an attraction in the long term.
Our alternate scenario, if the share price now stumbles below 644p, a visit to 633p looks possible with our secondary, if broken, at 622p and hopefully a bounce.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop |
| 5:50:16PM | BRENT | 6534.8 | 6289 | 6159 | 5991 | 6392 | 6578 | 6644 | 6905 | 6367 |
| 5:54:31PM | GOLD | 4985.79 | ||||||||
| 6:12:06PM | FTSE | 10148.9 | ||||||||
| 10:36:26PM | STOX50 | 5945.2 | ||||||||
| 10:38:52PM | GERMANY | 24883.9 | 24783 | 24737 | 24668 | 24850 | 24944 | 25192 | 25473 | 24844 |
| 10:51:14PM | US500 | 6902.7 | ||||||||
| 10:54:02PM | DOW | 49011 | ||||||||
| 10:57:30PM | NASDAQ | 25543 | ||||||||
| 10:59:51PM | JAPAN | 52764 |
23/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10143 points. Change of -0.07%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,117,563,035 a change of -17.66%
22/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10150 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,429,608,745 a change of -10.7%
21/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10138 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,319,716,543 a change of -14.69%
20/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10126 points. Change of -0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,752,396,465 a change of 107.45%
19/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10195 points. Change of -0.39%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,701,087,965 a change of -48.92%
16/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10235 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,203,782,063 a change of 3.12%
15/01/2026 FTSE Closed at 10238 points. Change of 0.53%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,925,069,676 a change of 39.46% 
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 : Fresnillo, IG Group, Oxford Instruments,
LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 4168 Percentage Change: + 2.06% Day High: 4188 Day Low: 4034
Target met. All Fresnillo needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 4188 to improv ……..
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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1360 Percentage Change: + 0.29% Day High: 1370 Day Low: 1353
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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2505 Percentage Change: + 0.20% Day High: 2510 Day Low: 2455
Target met. Further movement against Oxford Instruments ABOVE 2510 should ……..
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