#Brent #DAX One of the things about having a secret Nuclear Submarine base just long the road, along with Europe’s largest store of Nuclear weapons, is imagining a good snowball fight. If you have a snowball, the very last thing you would do is throw it at someone standing beside a big pile of snowballs! These are the sort of lies we tell ourselves here in this bit of Argyll, safely insulating ourselves a grim reality while makes the lack of tourism understandable. However, the other day, things got very real with local gossip telling a story about an Iranian bloke and a Romanian woman trying to get into the sprawling nuclear base.
With Iran being centre stage in the Middle East, this news certainly raised an eyebrow, even though it took until Saturday before mainstream media acknowledged the event had happened. The next stage will probably be a suggestion the Iranian visitor was known to have mental problems, while the woman was conducting a TikTok prank. However, the entire affair is a bit unsettling, the Middle East suddenly not being quite as far away regardless of what efforts the UK Government will employ to minimise the news story. After all, there’s no rule dictating Iranian drones can only be launched from Iran, as a ship would provide a stable launch platform, aside from the obvious problem of quite a few mountains, providing often foul weather in Argyll, creating quite big instructions against inbound fireworks.
However, the markets seem to be taking things seriously and Lloyds have now achieved our proposed secondary target at the 90p level. The immediate situation suggests weakness below 90.5 should next trigger reversals to an initial 88p, our secondary calculating at 80p. Despite conventional market behaviour hinting at the potential of a near term bounce, unless any recovery exceeds 97p, there is a high likelihood of Lloyds remaining in a weak zone. This results in a situation where any domino effect breaking our drop targets calculates with an eventual bottom at 60p making itself apparent.
Perhaps this shall prove worth watching for against Lloyds, if nastiness continues among the folks spoiling what looks like a good Formula1 season.
Our alternate scenario, if life chooses to take a positive turn, above 97p now works out with a strong potential of share price recovery to an initial 125p with our secondary calculating at 132p and some serious hesitation. It looks like an interesting week is ahead, so we may choose to issue updates on Lloyds and the FTSE too.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop |
| 8:40:50PM | BRENT | 10950 | 10579 | 10432 | 10242 | 10720 | 11015 | 11275 | 12301 | 10850 |
| 8:48:09PM | GOLD | 4490.26 | ||||||||
| 10:26:59PM | FTSE | 9785.5 | ||||||||
| 10:32:24PM | STOX50 | 5433 | ||||||||
| 10:35:04PM | GERMANY | 22035 | 21902 | 21637 | 21304 | 22054 | 23177 | 23423 | 23930 | 22897 |
| 10:38:13PM | US500 | 6501.5 | ||||||||
| 10:44:34PM | DOW | 45610 | ||||||||
| 10:49:33PM | NASDAQ | 23815.1 | ||||||||
| 10:53:34PM | JAPAN | 51033 |
20/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 9918 points. Change of -1.44%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 19,578,284,329 a change of 84.81%
19/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10063 points. Change of -2.35%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,593,978,868 a change of 34.88%
18/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10305 points. Change of -0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,854,191,076 a change of -1.67%
17/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10403 points. Change of 0.83%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,987,381,967 a change of 9.97%
16/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10317 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,262,925,875 a change of -9.77%
13/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10261 points. Change of -0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,049,702,522 a change of -8.86%
12/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10305 points. Change of -0.46%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,832,637,892 a change of -14.1% 
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 : Aston Martin, Diageo, Fresnillo, Gulf Keystone, Quadrise, Rolls Royce, Speedyhire, Taylor Wimpey,
LSE:AML Aston Martin Close Mid-Price: 36.7 Percentage Change: -3.98% Day High: 40 Day Low: 36.7
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LSE:DGE Diageo Close Mid-Price: 1400 Percentage Change: -0.14% Day High: 1405 Day Low: 1381
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LSE:FRES Fresnillo Close Mid-Price: 3068 Percentage Change: -0.26% Day High: 3180 Day Low: 3006
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LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone Close Mid-Price: 224.5 Percentage Change: -3.23% Day High: 234.5 Day Low: 221.5
Continued trades against GKP with a mid-price ABOVE 234.5 should improve ……..
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LSE:QED Quadrise Close Mid-Price: 1.5 Percentage Change: -9.77% Day High: 1.6 Day Low: 1.5
Target met. If Quadrise experiences continued weakness below 1.5, it will ……..
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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce Close Mid-Price: 1161 Percentage Change: -2.44% Day High: 1210 Day Low: 1148.5
Target met. If Rolls Royce experiences continued weakness below 1148.5, i ……..
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LSE:SDY Speedyhire Close Mid-Price: 20.2 Percentage Change: -2.88% Day High: 20.5 Day Low: 20
Continued weakness against SDY taking the price below 20 calculates as le ……..
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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey Close Mid-Price: 87.6 Percentage Change: -2.32% Day High: 91.44 Day Low: 87.6
Target met. In the event Taylor Wimpey experiences weakness below 87.6 it ……..
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