#Gold #FTSE As always, everything to do with the British Airways parent involves taking a deep breath and saying “it’s complicated’. The share price had been doing very nicely, thank you, until the start of March, when a fireworks display over Iran kyboshed the entire airline sector. But in the last few sessions, we’ve received a flurry of emails as the 2nd coming of President Trump is giving considerable hope to the mess of the Middle East. This was certainly the case until the US President decided to release a cartoon depicting himself as “the saviour”, bringing a blasphemy backlash from people in America who think of themselves as Christians.
President Trump was probably stirring the pot deliberately, sending a message he doesn’t really car about religion as he’s prepped to do the right thing to get trade flowing, no matter who he insults. Unfortunately, given the USA’s pretence of being religeous, it was perhaps a joke destined to land in the naughty pile…
Thankfully, personally delivering a sexist joke which spread along an entire corridor of the hospital proved within my power on Monday. My cancer unit appear determined to establish a baseline for my brand of leukaemia, wanting a CT scan carried out to snapshot lymph nodes and my complicated spleen. The entire CT scan business should be unromantic, except for the point when they inject something radioactive into the bloodstream, causing an insant foul taste in the mouth, along with a suspicion you entire upper body has just caught fire. This horrible sensation generally lasts a few moments and was planned to form the crux of a seriously funny attempt at humour.
Standard procedure is you strip, put on one of these joke gowns you are supposed to tie from behind, then another gown over that, worn like a dressing gown to preserve dignity and hide the fact you;ve not bothered even attempting the rear ties. When the big CT scan donut came to a rest and the radiographer entered the room, I said in a slurred voice;
“You don’t half get disorientated after that anaesthesia! I fogot to mention I showered and even put on clean underwear for today. Will my new underpants show up on your image? (Plenty of experience had taught you can retain underwear during this process but the staff had thankfully forgotten to mention it.
The radiographer stumbled;
“Anaesthesia? we don’t five you anaesthetics. “
The nurse said; “thanks for the new underwear. Anything else you’d like to say”
And the radiographer added; “You shouldn’t be feeling confused!”
At this point, all I could say was “gotcha” and the ladies convulsed. But they still made me sit around in the hospital goown for 10 minutes, standard protocol for a run through the big donut.
As for the Middle East and the US Presidents supposed confusion, it’s easy to suspect it was a performance which is designed to ensure he gets his own way. And the flurry of emails asking for our positive take on IAG also make a degree of sense
If our read of the tea leaves proves correct, the immediate situation suspects share price movement above 405p should now trigger gains to an initial 424p with our secondary, if exceeded, calculating at an impressive future 495p. This would place the share price in a zone where a future 602p shall make quite a lot of distant sense.
In the event things intend go wrong, below 350 could be traumatic, allowing reversal to an initial 319 with our secondary, if broken, at 270p. This negative scenario feels unlikely, so perhaps President Trump of the Second Coming shall get his own way.
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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 |
| 12:14:05AM | BRENT | 9469.7 | |||||||||
| 12:16:43AM | GOLD | 4769.08 | 4700 | 4669 | 4633 | 4732 | 4776 | 4825.5 | 4886 | 4739 | |
| 12:19:44AM | FTSE | 10580 | 10520 | 10479 | 10398 | 10575 | 10621 | 10647 | 10698 | 10598 | ‘cess |
| 12:22:46AM | STOX50 | 5929.7 | Shambles | ||||||||
| 12:25:28AM | GERMANY | 23879.5 | |||||||||
| 12:27:05AM | US500 | 6885 | |||||||||
| 12:31:36AM | DOW | 48199.9 | |||||||||
| 12:36:10AM | NASDAQ | 25416.7 | ‘cess |
13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%
10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%
9/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10603 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,549,262,704 a change of -39.09%
8/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10608 points. Change of 2.51%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,752,106,847 a change of 44.19%
7/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10348 points. Change of -0.84%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,456,687,194 a change of 2.69%
2/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10436 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,261,693,815 a change of 0%
1/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10364 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,245,214,633 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.
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Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares
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LSE:SCLP Scancell. Close Mid-Price: 12.75 Percentage Change: + 2.00% Day High: 13.25 Day Low: 12.5
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