Author: T&T Staff

#GOLD #WALLStThe UK market responded rather well to the news the Prime Minister has finally done something for the good of the country, resigning. Of course, the jury is out on the subject of the next bloke being useful, coming from Manchester and the stomping ground for the grooming brigade. We would have expected the guy would have been all over the media historically but instead, he’s generally opted for the safe route by remaining silent on the dreadful situation within his control area. Doubtless, the media shall start digging into this, once the (expected) next Prime Minister settles in to his place at the trough.

Meanwhile, Persimmon, nothing to do with the fantastic fruit from Spain which they are named after but we finally got around to enjoying a tray. Some hope is apparently deserved for Persimmon share price as it’s been refusing to collapse despite plenty of signals suggesting grabbing a parachute might be a good idea. Below the 10 quid level risks promoting the idea of reversal to an initial 771p with our secondary, if broken, at 502p.

Balancing this gloomy scenario, our previous report calculated with a target of 1,441p, a price level successfully exceeded with the share eventually reaching 1,560p and making us look stupid for our previous calculation. The implicit suggestion is for strength in the share price and despite the immediate situation, we should plan for happy days ahead. Should this be the case, it will be worth watching .

Apparently, above 1,0053p should trigger recovery to a relatively useless 1,096p. Our secondary, if bettered, works out at a more useful 1,224p and dumps the share price into a zone where long term Big Picture potentials are possible at around 1,306p and exceeding the long term downtrend since 2021. This would be quite a big deal.

For now, alas, the share price is porking around in the doldrums, trying to make the idea of reversals looks valid. We suspect the converse shall prove to be the case.And the weather is also good with a Grand Prix imminent.

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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
11:17:17PM	BRENT	7781.1
11:24:02PM	GOLD	4189.97	4137	4100	4060	4179	4221	4226	4261	4183
11:47:57PM	FTSE	10414.7									Shambles
11:53:41PM	STOX50	6303.7
11:57:10PM	GERMANY	25046.7									Success
12:08:00AM	US500	7464.4									‘cess
11:38:52PM	DOW	51757	51600	51488	51354	51798	51894	52026	52261	51692	Success
11:42:50PM	NASDAQ	30188.6									Shambles
11:45:40PM	JAPAN	71984									Success

 

 

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…

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **

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LSE:AML Aston Martin. Close Mid-Price: 39.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 644.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 516 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EZJ EasyJet. Close Mid-Price: 518 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1451.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 465.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 109.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1221 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 663 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc. Close Mid-Price: 170.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2071 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 449.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#Brent #Nasdaq The markets are proving a little crazy this year, perhaps even full on fruitcake. From a UK perspective, Share prices want to go up, some quite substantially. But Brent Crude wants to drop quite sharply, Gold often feels on the edge of a meltdown toward the $3k level, and CryptoCurrency only has itself to blame. Obviously, the Iran thing has focussed minds on just what is and is not a safe place to store your currency and Crypto, pretty conclusively, has been left wanting. In fact, should BitCoin manage to close a session below $63k, things risk becoming particularly nasty with a visit to the $50k level initially with our secondary looking absurd around $25k and a return to the levels of just 3 years ago.

Making things worse, Bitcoin has enacted a pretty neat Head & Shoulders movement formation since the start of 2025. The guy who theorised this to be a useful charting weapon calculated around $38k would be a typical outcome in the current scenario, our expectation around $25k is rather more painful, a result we anticipate to prove correct. Only if, of course, Bitcoin takes the final steps off the cliff. Like Scotland and their forthcoming match against Brazil, this crypto is on the edge, just waiting the right calamity circumstances. Scotland, on the other hand, only need walk onto a football pitch to face Brazil for calamity.

As for Barclays, their share price is doing fairly similar things to others in the banking sector. Essentially, there appears to be quite a lot of confidence (mostly hidden) which should flourish once the Iran shambles is complete. We couldn’t help but speculate the current Iranian walkout from “peace” talks may have something to do with softening oil prices. At least the Pakistan, Iranian, and American delegations can enjoy quality time in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, a place where great views were probably invented.

In the last few days, Barclays share price took a glance above the Blue downtrend since 2007, didn’t like what it saw and promptly retreated to the comparative safety below Blue. Generally, this sort of nonsense defines a share which, if it is going to move, will move fast. All it needs do is actually start going up!

Above 508p should provide a sane trigger to suggest proper movement is coming, this giving the “threat” of a visit to an initial 528p with our secondary for the longer term calculating at a less likely 614p.

If things intend go wrong for Barclays, their share price needs shuffle below Red at 460p currently, risking a visit down to an initial 448p. There is certainly hope for a near term bounce at such a level but our secondary, if it breaks, works out at a future 428p and the risk of the price getting stuck in mud for a while.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
8:58:33PM	BRENT	7971.6	7795	7538	7291	8280	8015	8164	8357	7898
9:00:55PM	GOLD	4155.08
9:03:07PM	FTSE	10356.2
9:06:40PM	STOX50	6275
9:14:27PM	GERMANY	24993.9
9:18:10PM	US500	7490.4
9:56:47PM	DOW	51480.8
10:18:39PM	NASDAQ	30336.4	30080	29946	29774	30301	30410	30536	30849	30216
10:22:13PM	JAPAN	71711

 

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…

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:IPF International Personal Finance** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **

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LSE:AML Aston Martin. Close Mid-Price: 39.74 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 496.45 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HIK Hikma. Close Mid-Price: 1457 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 248.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1212 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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The breath taking arrogance of UK politicians has proven quite distasteful, while we await the results from a parliamentary seat somewhere near Manchester. We used to see this sort of thing in Scotland, where Labour politicians treated the public vote as theirs, each election promising a guaranteed seat at the trough Eventually, the penny dropped with the electorate, the entitled Labour politicians ejected almost entirely and replaced by an SNP government, an organisation which has managed to produce its own “entitled” troughers and is now paying the price. Hopefully we shall reach a stage where local independent politicians start to take seats as it’s becoming clear large political parties only owe allegiance to themselves, rather than the electorate.

It would be lovely if the results from Manchester toppled the smarmy expectations, though this would risk the current UK Prime Minister staying in place longer. Unfortunately, our suspicion is the Labour guy shall take the seat as he’s disturbingly confident he’s about to be anointed as the next PM.

Making Thursday even more irritating was the Bank of England, opting to continue their suffocating assault on the UK economy. They could easily have surfed the “glory” of the previous evenings England football match, celebrating by doing something positive with interest rates. Unfortunately, the political masters of the BoE clearly do not approve of such an action, so the entire country (and stock market) continues to be suffocated by a central bank following an economic policy which is a proven failure.

It certainly appears the case the FTSE was far from impressed by the BoE actions, setting things up for a Friday with reversals expected. Now below 10.375 looks capable of triggering reversal to an initial 10,335 with our secondary, if broken, at 10,256 and hopefully a rebound. However, it’s worth pointing out the danger of a third level, should the UK index find an excuse to close below 10,256 as a further journey to 10,033 is expected and a very probable market bottom.

Then again, the market does not need to work hard to express some optimism, only needing above 10,435 to trigger gains in the direction of 10,509 points with our secondary, if bettered, at 10,642 points.

From the feel of things, we suspect reversals shall be on the cards.

Have a good weekend.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
11:42:36PM	BRENT	7854.6	7625	7481	6176	8317	7931	7970	8100	7801
11:45:10PM	GOLD	4204.66	4201	4189	4142	4234	4276	4284	4312	4242
11:47:44PM	FTSE	10401.4	10376	10340	10279	10421	10470	10501	10542	10426
11:51:42PM	STOX50	6327.2	6242	6203	6156	6302	6344	6365	6397	6276
11:53:57PM	GERMANY	25046.3	24835	24735	24612	25010	25104	25163	25224	25021
11:09:49PM	US500	7497	7402	7347	7270	7491	7531	7571	7627	7488
11:13:23PM	DOW	51569.5	51478	51236	50885	51716	52243	52302	53164	51980
11:16:07PM	NASDAQ	30361.2	29962	29770	29540	30220	30468	30551	30868	30325
11:34:15PM	JAPAN	71824	71060	70799	70363	71529	72114	73530	75127	71470

 

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…

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 871 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 490.05 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 299.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 2509 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1442.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 463.1 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 5815 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 641.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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Sorry, our Broadband failed, making it impossible to publish this before the markets opened..

We’ve got a held a vote; is it more fun watching our robot lawnmower or football? A clear majority in our household favoured the little robot and to be accurate, it was only my wife and I voting. But 100% of us found we spend more time watching the grass monster trundling around, rather than a bunch of folk who really should know better, chasing a ball.  Our grass robot isn’t one of these posh ones with GPS control. Instead, it relies on bouncing off things, making random cuts everywhere and with a little bit of moisture, proves utterly unable to go in a straight line. In an attempt to make the cutting lines more regular, we placed a couple of rocks on the lawn only to see the thing wilfully avoid choose to avoid them and for 3 hours, the only part of the lawn which hadn’t been cut was a moat of grass around each boulder. Then it opted to switch things up, spending the next three hours trying to hit the rocks constantly.

Whatever software drives the little robot has a quite different understanding of the concept of “random” than we do. My wife challenged me to figure out software code to drive the machine, so obviously mucking around produced quite a simple series of commands which would effectively drive the machine exactly the way it drives. Essentially, a cascade of “Do This, if you can’t, then Do That, and if you can’t, “Try This”, each command effectively being an attempt to escape from the immediate situation. Or in plain English, think of a woman trying to park a car. Go right, go right some more, go even more right, go further right, try accelerating, go right again, try accelerating harder, go right again. Effectively, ending up with a theoretical machine rotating in a theoretical circle quite perfectly described our robots idea of hysterics. Unfortunately, software alone cannot magically produce a wire brush to clean the grooves in the wheels, clogged grass tending to produce little in the way of drive.

In other words, rather than assume a robot grass machine actually has a brain, it is best to assume a Human Overlord is watching the machines effort, ready and willing to sprint outside into light rain to clear the clogged wet grass from the driving wheels. In other words, relying on AI will always go wrong, without human supervision. There comes a point when software simply runs out of options and shuts down. Which is exactly what happens with our little robot, when it runs into an exceptionally large dog poo or sneaky rock!  Perhaps a decent Laser will destroy obstacles but this type of thinking drifts into Terminator territory.

We still prefer the concept of Artificial Intelligence only being real, if the software erects humanity to the level of being its creator. Until then, it’s only software running “If” algorithms.

But then again, there is always ice cream. With Magnum Ice Cream Company launched on the markets, we’re REALLY not fans of overpriced Magnums, invariably selecting from the cheaper “Me Too” selection in the freezer at our local petrol station shop, Magnums are nice but, chocolate covered ice cream is equally nice and a Magnum never gives a “special” moment when eating it. This ridiculous concept of “special” may sound ridiculous but real chocolate junkies know what it really means. Sometimes you eat the perfect Bounty Bar, sometimes you eat the perfect “Whole Nut” and these delights tend keep the glutton on the correct path. But a Magnum is simply chocolate encrusted ice cream, so the company really should try harder.

It’s easy to ridicule this concept but anyone who drinks coffee understands it, doomed to a life of once again making “the perfect” coffee. Thankfully, with our in-house Bean to Cup machine making such an ideology possible every morning, it’d be nice if an Ice Cream company produced a “perfect” product.

Then again, perhaps this is exactly the target every chocolate or ice cream company has spent their existence trying to attain. (Clue: nothing is nicer than letting a Galaxy square slowly melt in the mouth!)

As for Magnum, while we’ve proven our credentials in the fanboy category, it pnly needs above 1300p to indicate the potential for share price growth to an initial 1,367p with our secondary, if bettered, at a future 1,499p. Above such a level gives a problem, indicating the 15 quid level shall probably prove a future “top”.

If things intend go pear shaped, below 1232 looks like creating an issue for the future, potentially triggering reversals to an initial 1,177 with our secondary, when broken, at 1,032p and a potential bounce.

Like a chocolate Magnum drip on a white shirt in a traffic jam, it’s a bit complex….

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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
12:03:59AM	BRENT	7855.4	7748	7535	6648	8053	7986	8066	8172	7864
11:08:38PM	GOLD	4334.04	4312	4295	4275	4346	4355	4361	4368	4329	‘cess
11:11:25PM	FTSE	10461.3	10430	10401	10360	10477	10524	10537	10565	10486	‘cess
11:14:10PM	STOX50	6235	6220	6204	6176	6252	6288	6316	6348	6249	Shambles
11:28:49PM	GERMANY	24798.9	24738	24663	24516	24846	25110	25285	25477	24988	Shambles
11:33:50PM	US500	7524	7504	7490	7465	7535	7550	7558	7576	7526	Shambles
11:37:21PM	DOW	52075	51694	51514	51285	51828	52200	52305	53170	51977
11:51:24PM	NASDAQ	30067.5	29943	29931	29696	30195	30636	31130	32094	30424	‘cess
11:54:12PM	JAPAN	69440	68755	68468	67957	69352	69632	66991	66739	69277	‘cess

 

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…

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **

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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 642.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 504.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:CAR Carclo. Close Mid-Price: 33.7 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 295.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1437 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 638 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:QED Quadrise. Close Mid-Price: 1.75 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1390 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#FTSE #WallSt A client emailed asking us to examine Games Workshop, a share we’ve forgotten about, probably quite wilfully. A personal guilty secret is a love of Science Fiction writing but unfortunately, the folk who catalogue books include “fantasy” such as Star Wars, Dr Who, and Games Workshops main product, “Warhammer” in the category of Sci-Fi. Unfortunately, there’s an extremely large bunch of Warhammer fans who enthusiastically self publish a massive range of Warhammer stories, based on the popular game from Games Workshop. Accidentally downloading a few of the Warhammer audio-books, none proved of sufficient interest to justify getting beyond the first chapters, and thus the theme joined Star Wars & Dr Who in my personal “blocked” list in the Sci-Fi category.

However, this personal foible hasn’t proven sufficient to dampen Games Workshop share price rise. The company employ a “zero tolerance” approach to those who impinge their Intellectual Property, this doubtless being the reason fans produce so much literature, rather than models, coffee mugs, t-shirts, images, maps, for which Games Workshop jealously protect their copyright. Another company who use “zero tolerance” for their character sets is Disney and the policy certainly hasn’t harmed them.

It’s quite interesting – from our nerd perspective – to note Games Workshop (GW to their friends) are now trading above our logical “Top”, the number beyond which we normally be unable to calculate. This worked out at 18,941p and with a relatively impressive degree of confidence, the market managed to confirm our calculations with the current very visible pause around the 19,000p level. But we’re starting to suspect the current hiatus may yet prove just a stutter for the future as now, above 20,340p should apparently trigger a climb to an initial 20,606p. Our secondary, if bettered, works out at 21,304 and yet another all time high. In fact, our secondary target level is a bit arguable as we can also present a longer term ambition at a future 22,128p.

Who knew there was so much interest in the UK’s answer to Dungeons & Dragons. Perhaps the current UK Prime Minister should consider copyright on his speeches as it seems there is serious money to be made from Fantasy.

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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
12:03:59AM	BRENT	7855.4
11:08:38PM	GOLD	4334.04									‘cess
11:11:25PM	FTSE	10461.3	10430	10401	10360	10477	10524	10537	10565	10486	‘cess
11:14:10PM	STOX50	6235									Shambles
11:28:49PM	GERMANY	24798.9									Shambles
11:33:50PM	US500	7524									Shambles
11:37:21PM	DOW	52075	51694	51514	51285	51828	52200	52305	53170	51977
11:51:24PM	NASDAQ	30067.5									‘cess
11:54:12PM	JAPAN	69440									‘cess

 

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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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 638.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 295.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1409.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 69.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1393 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#Gold #SP500 It’s a shame how some of the great British institutions have managed to eradicate themselves from daily life. For instance, it was once the case where the BBC was the home of essential viewing shows but the broadcasting corporation, despite many warning signs, continued to ignore the viewing public, demolishing habits like Top of The Pops, Dr Who, Top Gear, The News,etc. With colossal self belief, they thought viewers would always return to “The Beeb” but when they finally destroyed Top Gear just a few years ago, we lost interest. Anyone who had to endure the stream of outright lies broadcast by the BBC during the Scottish thing in 2014, decided to simply stop watching. Nowadays, probably like the majority of viewers North of the border, we no longer pay to a licence fee to a corporation which ate itself.

Similarly, a home phone number was felt to be essential but again, it’s no longer a fixed point in the house and most certainly not provided by BT. The company were another institution which believed itself bigger than the marketplace. I’ve a memory of trying to get Broadband for our offices in the 1990’s, experiencing the shock of BT telling me if I got a local petition together, they’d consider if but would need proof there was a need. Instead, they offered an expensive digital telephone line connection but luckily, we’d a girl called Carol. Carol had a flat directly above our office and had been offered cable TV and Internet, being uncertain whether it would be worth it. We offered to pay for her service – 250 quid a year – if we could drill a little hole in the ceiling to attached a network cable directly onto her cable system. In addition, we’d be happy to ensure she enjoyed a seamless connection to the internet from her home computer.

Obviously, Carol had nothing to lose and we’d high speed fibre optic broadband by 1996, gleefully leaving the constraints of modems far behind. We did obviously retain our BT lines, simply for telephone handsets and the inevitable fax machine. It was to take another 15 years before BT started to behave as if they’d always backed the idea of broadband, trying to pretend they hadn’t been throttling the technology infrastructure for years with their corporate BT Know Best attitude.

Nowadays, living without BBC and BT has proven remarkably easy, both corporations utterly failing to understand the implications of the internet, one of which should be the strongest provider and the other should be one of the strongest web presences. Senior management from the 1990’s and early 2000’s will now be retired with massive pensions, continuing to avoid blame for their utter incompetence at failing to embrace a future which was obvious. It would be correct to say a long term grudge remains at being asked to produce a petition to beg BT for broadband!

However…

BT’s share price did something a little odd on the 9th June, dipping below the Red uptrend since 2024 during the session. As the chart extracts show, this was an intraday movement, the market ensuring the share price closed above the trend and creating a scenario where some fairly near term gains looks possible, hopefully without investors needing to raise a petition! If our suspicion is correct, movement now above 210p should trigger gains to an initial 221p with our longer term secondary, if beaten, at an extremely important 249p. Due to this producing yet another “higher high”, we are forced to admit a long term attraction from 286p exists.

If things intend go wrong, the price needs dial itself below 195p as this would doubtless provoke reversal to an initial 178p with our secondary, if broken, calculating at 156p. Visually, this scenario looks improbable.

We suspect BT shall prove worth watching as it’s doing the work, for a cycle of recovery.

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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
10:47:23PM	BRENT	8258
10:51:37PM	GOLD	4308.27	4305	4290	4264	4327	4340	4354	4370	4316	‘cess
10:55:08PM	FTSE	10407.1
10:58:18PM	STOX50	6226.9
11:39:23PM	GERMANY	24818.1
11:48:10PM	US500	7548.4	7512	7485	7454	7530	7563	7581	7700	7536	‘cess
11:51:26PM	DOW	51673.5									‘cess
11:54:58PM	NASDAQ	30495.2									‘cess
11:57:42PM	JAPAN	69571

 

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…

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **

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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 517 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EZJ EasyJet. Close Mid-Price: 500 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 375.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 614.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:QED Quadrise. Close Mid-Price: 1.985 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1358.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#Dax #Brent All things considered, it was a great weekend. Louis Hamilton winning his first Grand Prix race in an age, following a pretty decent event in Barcelona, along with the Straits of Hormuz opening on Sunday evening. As the screen grab below from the MarineTraffic website shows, the bit of water which was once as empty as a politicians conscience is now stuffed with ships, hopefully in sufficient quantity to goose up the stock markets and allow Crude Oil to do what it has been trying to do for an age, drop in price. The only thing spoiling the weekend is our Scotland national football team scored a goal, taking them to the top of their group, and sparking an outpouring of optimism with flags appearing everywhere.  This optimism is always misplaced as opposing teams will no longer field their Under-11’s, instead treating our national side as “serious”. The football pundit Ally McCoist famously bemoaned a player scoring a goal against Brazil with the line; “Don’t do that. You’ve only made them angry!”

Though it is a bit odd, the country often credited with inventing the “sport”, historically creating some really awful national teams which bring ritual humiliation. Maybe this time it will be different…

As for Lloyds, with the Futures Markets currently displaying more enthusiasm than Scots currently show for their national team (Today, Monday, is an Official Bank Holiday in Scotland in honour of the team qualifying for the World Cup), our inclination is to anticipate good things for their share price. On Friday, the market chose to elevate Lloyds share price above the immediate downtrend, presumably in anticipation of the Straits thing being resolved. The immediate situation suggests above just 102.6p should promote some gains for the share price, an initial 107.5p looking like a viable ambition. Our longer term secondary, if this hope is exceeded, calculates at a confident looking 116.7p.

The scenario will create a situation, where Big Picture influences should intrude, closure above 115p assembling a strong argument which favours a distant ambition of 150p sometime in the future. Probably a safer longer term hope than investing in a factory making Scotland Flags to support the football team.

Should things make an effort to go wrong, below 95p could prove nasty, easily provoking reversal to an initial 81p with our secondary, if broken, at 84p. In this instance, it feels like optimism for Lloyds is possible.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
11:30:15PM	BRENT	8575.8	8250	7532	6248	8450	8610	8739	8902	8482
11:41:32PM	GOLD	4283.22								4258
11:46:57PM	FTSE	10529.1								10385
11:05:04PM	STOX50	6244.2								6235
11:06:55PM	GERMANY	25035.5	24633	24463	24258	24758	25083	25181	25591	24890
11:08:48PM	US500	7500.3								7438
11:10:38PM	DOW	51561.2								51202
11:12:17PM	NASDAQ	30104.9								29878
11:15:01PM	JAPAN	69382								68414

 

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…

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1938 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 5660 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 376.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 614.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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