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#Gold #Wall St   The brilliant news two members of K-Pop group BTS have completed their military service in South Korea and will soon return to performance within the country. Quite why this announcement popped up on our market news feed is a puzzle, but perhaps pointing to the lack of real news from anywhere. Aside from Gaza, Ukraine, and of course Los Angeles. Even news of Greta Thunberg refusing to watch Hamas footage of their activities on Oct 7th made the market feed. Curiously though, the UK Government announcing £14.2bn investment in nuclear didn’t pop up as relevant information!

 

With the traditionally anti-nuclear Labour government now supporting the most favourable Green energy solution, we question why Great British Bake Off are not holding a round with Yellow Cake designs, a challenge to force contestants to make something socially acceptable? Until such a time, Uranium 235 will suffer a poor reputation, despite it effectively being the thing which powers a massive steam engine. The upcoming Sizewell C power station differs very little from the steam engines of the 18th century, except the water isn’t being boiled by a coal fire stove but instead, a controller nuclear reaction. It’s be nice, if future power stations were named after such success’ as Doncaster’s “Flying Scotsman” or the original classic, Stevenson’s “Rocket”. Though we’d certainly pause, if a nuclear facility was named after Thomas The Tank Engine or better still, the un-named talking train from the original Magic Roundabout series…

 

Yellow Cake Plc, the uranium stockpile company which gives the market to effectively trade on the potentials of the product, are proving slightly interesting.

Currently, above 518p should apparently trigger an explosion in the price to an initial 573p. If bettered, we should plan for a distant 718p glowing in the future as a point at which the visuals suggest some hesitation should become possible in the share price trajectory. Importantly, share price closure above our 573p target exposes a longer term 824p as exerting an attraction.

For everything to go wrong, the price needs close a session below 487p to foul up our calculations.

 

 

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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
11:01:50PM	BRENT	6716.7									‘cess
11:03:29PM	GOLD	3308.97	3302	3251	3200	3330	3340	3351	3370	3312
11:06:43PM	FTSE	8839.9
11:11:09PM	STOX50	5423.7
11:14:17PM	GERMANY	24233.2
11:21:23PM	US500	6029.8
11:24:43PM	DOW	42887.5	42556	42471	42317	42794	42923	42968	43113	42737
11:27:41PM	JAPAN	38439									‘cess

 

9/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8832 points. Change of -0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,478,322,268 a change of 1.25%

6/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8837 points. Change of 0.3%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,423,165,966 a change of -14.16%

5/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8811 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,152,607,890 a change of -21.02%

4/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8801 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,523,776,146 a change of 16.37%

3/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8787 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,606,086,540 a change of 3.39%

2/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,422,234,482 a change of -53.25%

30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%

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:CLAI Cellular Goods** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **

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LSE:CLAI Cellular Goods Close Mid-Price: 0.61 Percentage Change: -12.86% Day High: 0.7 Day Low: 0.56

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LSE:CPI Capita. Close Mid-Price: 249 Percentage Change: + 1.38% Day High: 251.8 Day Low: 245

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 1374 Percentage Change: + 2.38% Day High: 1380 Day Low: 1339

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 83.6 Percentage Change: + 14.99% Day High: 83.2 Day Low: 73.6

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LSE:NWG Natwest Close Mid-Price: 526.6 Percentage Change: -0.30% Day High: 529.2 Day Low: 524.8

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1005.5 Percentage Change: + 0.55% Day High: 1007.5 Day Low: 999.8

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LSE:SRP Serco Close Mid-Price: 191.7 Percentage Change: -0.16% Day High: 196.3 Day Low: 191

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LSE:TLW Tullow. Close Mid-Price: 18 Percentage Change: + 7.14% Day High: 18.24 Day Low: 16.8

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LSE:TSCO Tesco Close Mid-Price: 384.6 Percentage Change: -1.54% Day High: 391.9 Day Low: 383.3

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#Brent #Dax  We’d a cunning plan for a Formula 1 free weekend, binging on “Clarkson’s Farm” in the knowledge the rest of 2025’s TV viewing was going to be lacking. Once again, Clarkson knocked it out of the park, visibly falling to bits on screen and clearly exasperated by staff members deluging him with problems, never any suggested solutions. Anyone who’s ever been an employer could easily relate to what was happening but, (spoiler alert) no ambulance was called for Clarkson, despite him clearly needing one, his blood pressure visibly exploring new highs!

Obviously, the guy, his subjects of farming and buying a pub, is a matter of personal taste, but hopefully he survives to produce a further series next year as it made fascinating viewing. We watched 4 episodes on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, and unlike a Grand Prix weekend, we didn’t feel our time was wasted. I’d be surprised is anyone who has employed staff, didn’t jump up and pace with shared frustration during the final episode. As can be assumed, in our opinion Clarkson has produced yet another commendable series. We can only speculate if he intends produce a range of pork, called “Richard Ham”.

 

As for Natwest, news of the company allegedly paying off the last of its debt to the UK taxpayer, is perhaps proving capable of driving the share price into a cycle where some real hope is available for the future. While we cannot plot out any trajectory which suggests hope for the folk trapped with a share price adjusted average at around 23 quid, since the price appears to have confirmed the downtrend since 2007, we can calculate an absurd sounding attraction as coming from a distant 1404p on the current cycle. As long as the price doesn’t discover an excuse to close a session below 484p, we shall cling to this hope with similar fervour Mr Clarkson holds for his little pig, Richard Ham.

We’ve even got considerable hope for the nearer term, the big picture allowing us to adjust our target levels upward. Apparently, movement next above 537p should now target an ambition at 600p with our longer term secondary, if beaten, at a future 767p. We’re a little sceptical at this outpouring of affection for NWG share price, especially as we fondly referred to it as “the clown bank” due to their share price movements back in the days when the company was honestly called RBS. Essentially, we’d initially thought a breakout target would be around 570p but now, things appear to have changed.

 

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
2:06:35AM	BRENT	6647	6468	6394	6308	6517	6654	6670	6746	6576
2:11:34AM	GOLD	3310.12
2:21:57AM	FTSE	8838.4
2:24:03AM	STOX50	5426.5
2:29:14AM	GERMANY	24302.9	24178	24064	23924	24248	24356	24422	24502	24261
2:33:05AM	US500	6002.4
2:43:10AM	DOW	42783.7
2:48:49AM	NASDAQ	21776
2:51:31AM	JAPAN	37994

 

6/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8837 points. Change of 0.3%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,423,165,966 a change of -14.16%

5/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8811 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,152,607,890 a change of -21.02%

4/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8801 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,523,776,146 a change of 16.37%

3/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8787 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,606,086,540 a change of 3.39%

2/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,422,234,482 a change of -53.25%

30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%

29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%

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:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CCL Carnival** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **

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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 626.8 Percentage Change: + 1.82% Day High: 625.6 Day Low: 615

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 333.2 Percentage Change: + 1.88% Day High: 334.2 Day Low: 326.8

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LSE:BT.A British Telecom Close Mid-Price: 178 Percentage Change: -0.73% Day High: 181.1 Day Low: 177.5

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LSE:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 1616 Percentage Change: + 0.56% Day High: 1627.5 Day Low: 1591

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LSE:CPI Capita. Close Mid-Price: 245.6 Percentage Change: + 0.49% Day High: 250 Day Low: 245

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LSE:FGP Firstgroup. Close Mid-Price: 194.9 Percentage Change: + 0.05% Day High: 203.6 Day Low: 193.6

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 1342 Percentage Change: + 1.28% Day High: 1358 Day Low: 1327

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LSE:GRG Greggs. Close Mid-Price: 1979 Percentage Change: + 0.35% Day High: 1976 Day Low: 1958

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital Close Mid-Price: 24.55 Percentage Change: -0.41% Day High: 24.55 Day Low: 23.75

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LSE:SRP Serco. Close Mid-Price: 192 Percentage Change: + 0.68% Day High: 192.4 Day Low: 187.6

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1186 Percentage Change: + 2.91% Day High: 1190.5 Day Low: 1147.5

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#FTSE #GOLD  The FTSE has walked out of May and entered June, displaying the most grudging series of “higher highs” in the first week of this month. We’ve mentioned previously our suspicion; the market has noticed it’s on the verge of strong movement and is now, almost desperately, trying to avoid it. The FTSE itself seems to be under the influence of a nightmare version of the “Goblins of Gringotts”, this being the central bank position in the world of Harry Potter. In the UK, we’ve only got the Bank of England, an organisation which seems to be making considerable effort to slow down the UK economy. We’d hoped the malign influence of their Canadian chairman would wane, once he returned to active politics in his own country but so far, the evidence is against it.

With movements being terribly lethargic since the start of May, the market is now closing on a point where the Goblins in the background will be forced to panic. Earlier this year, the market closed at a high of 8873 points and we regard this as the final level, above which the market should (according to our logic) have no choice other than to sharply move further toward our ruling destination, currently calculating at an ambitious 9727 points. With the FTSE closing at 8811 points on Thursday 5th June, very little work now needs done to challenge our trigger point of 8873.

Or in other words, we shall not be surprised if the market discovers an excuse to panic, introducing some reversals to knock the FTSE back into its box. Certainly, movement now below 8750 shall be regarded as with triggering potential, working out as capable of provoking reversals to an initial 8634 with our secondary, if broken, a probable bottom at 8588, once again dumping the UK Index into a parking orbit when it gets to do the whole thing over again. Perhaps it’s the case, where chaos in Ukraine, chaos in Israel, and chaos in UK politics, shall need vanish before our banking Goblins allow the index to run free.

 

Of course, we could be utterly wrong, the lethargy infecting the UK market just being a figment of our own irritation.

 

More likely, it seems to be the case near term movement above 8839 should challenge a spectacular rise to 8845 points next, an ambition we’d describe as utterly useless.  It’s probably safer (and saner) to suggest movement above 8845 should bring a near term 8895 next with our “longer term” secondary, if bettered, at 8959 points. Unfortunately, the most sane stop loss level for this scenario is at 8750 points, giving a painfully large safety margin to match the risk/reward scenario.

On the brighter side of life, it looks like the current wind and rain season here in Argyll should be coming to an end. My wife grows “Peony Roses” at the front of our house, an annual joke being bad weather is due, when the dark red blooms at their most perfect. She has finally noticed this is a very real annual event, her battle to beat the weather becoming an annual event to save her blooms before they are destroyed by strong winds and heavy rains. Who knows, perhaps Peony Roses attract bad weather as it looks like we’ve now 10 days of good weather ahead, her collection of pretty flowers yet again utterly destroyed.

We’ve been joking – to a degree – about planting grape vines at the front of the house. It’s south faces, looking over the sea but rarely threatened by storm surges. A cherry blossom tree planted 5 years ago has flourished, my wife wanting me to eschew planting some carrots and potatoes, instead trying for the ingredients of a dry white wine. However, with the collapse of the wine production industry worldwide, it’s proving remarkably cheap to buy concentrate grape juice from impoverished growers in California and Spain.

Have a good weekend, unfortunately one without a grand prix.

 

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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
11:20:56PM	BRENT	6509.7	6440	6394		6496	6572	6633		6524	Success
11:23:14PM	GOLD	3357.61	3339	3317		3359	3403	3418		3377	Success
11:27:22PM	FTSE	8790.9	8775	8761		8796	8829	8844		8792
11:29:44PM	STOX50	5382.4	5371	5355		5391	5412	5426		5385	‘cess
11:32:25PM	GERMANY	24225.5	24182	24129		24270	24373	24421		24217	‘cess
11:38:06PM	US500	5935	5920	5896		5948	6006	6068		5951	‘cess
11:44:48PM	DOW	42348.2	42201	42174		42375	42672	42752		42448	Shambles
11:53:54PM	NASDAQ	21497.3	21444	21412		21532	21641	21667		21530	Success
11:56:48PM	JAPAN	37458	37305	37203		37535	37726	37870		37510

 

5/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8811 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,152,607,890 a change of -21.02%

4/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8801 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,523,776,146 a change of 16.37%

3/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8787 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,606,086,540 a change of 3.39%

2/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,422,234,482 a change of -53.25%

30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%

29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%

28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 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…

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:CCL Carnival** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **

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LSE:AAL Anglo American. Close Mid-Price: 2293.5 Percentage Change: + 2.69% Day High: 2328.5 Day Low: 2233.5

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LSE:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 1607 Percentage Change: + 1.48% Day High: 1615.5 Day Low: 1566

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LSE:CPI Capita. Close Mid-Price: 244.4 Percentage Change: + 2.26% Day High: 247.4 Day Low: 239

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 1325 Percentage Change: + 4.99% Day High: 1337 Day Low: 1264

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LSE:GRG Greggs Close Mid-Price: 1972 Percentage Change: -4.18% Day High: 2060 Day Low: 1972

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital Close Mid-Price: 24.65 Percentage Change: -6.98% Day High: 26 Day Low: 24

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#DAX #SP500 An interesting company, they seem quite clear on what they actually do, rather than making the reason for their existence vanish in a bucket of word spaghetti. From an in-house perspective, this is the sort of company we hope will knock on our door one day, offer a ridiculous amount of money for our logic tree, then vanish into the night, while we choose what colour of Norton Commando is being bought, along with a specific Honda RC45 for my wife. All joking aside, she really misses going out to the garage once a month and cleaning spider webs off her bike, it only being used once a year in dry weather. From a bikers viewpoint, this was akin to cruelty and when she agreed to sell it, the (immediate) buyer was delighted at the masterpiece of Honda race bikes.

Unfortunately, the guy adopted my wifes maintenance regime but her attitude has changed. Next time she has an RC45, we will have a van capable of carrying our family bikes to racetracks, where she will again be capable of humiliating bikers. To be clear, my (5 ft tall) wife once passed me TWICE on a single racing lap and I’m supposed to be fairly competent. On a brighter note, our daughter, while capable of choosing spectacular machinery, is the sort of rider who experiences a smear of suicidal dead flies on the back of her helmet. Let’s just say she isn’t fast but has exquisite taste…

We can dream!

Back in 2012, when we wrote our market monitoring software, only one share proved reliable, a mining share called Xstrata. This wasn’t exactly a surprise as we’d used the historical data for the share to tune our series of 187 algorithms but there was a core problem, as running the numbers for shares like BARC or AAL generally fell completely apart. Oddly, one share which proved remarkably concise was Gulf Keystone, a share which was dangerous to write about due to the large and hysterical fan club. Genuinely, many folk writing about the markets would avoid GKP due to the level of abuse received.

Returning to the present, the eventual realisation our 187 formula were useless did present a real problem. The core issue was each and every argument needed tweaked for each and every share. As there were only two of us doing high level programming, a new approach was needed, one which we’ve adopted for the last 12 years. Clients report we’re right around 80% of the time, substantially higher than achieved by the market god Buffet, the head bloke behind Berkshire Hathaway with their 737,000 dollar share price. Buffet claims a success ratio of 60% our 80% ratio being quite superior…

Our solution to the problem was to retain our core software but allow humans to glance at what’s being suggested. It’s less elegant but the human eye can make a relatively informed decision in seconds. Whereas the time required to “tune” our software for every single share, commodity, index, or whatever would be absurd, each item of interest requiring months of work! If only there was an investment company willing to throw money at this problem? We’ve a suspicion somewhere in the UK, there is an Ai company who know what they’re doing, an organisation capable of bringing a small truck full of funds. And to even speak to such an entity, we’d need a company such as Intermediate Capital Group. (it’s a Black Norton 951 Commando Interstate, with the gold leaf logo on the tank) as they’d be unlikely to take a company from Argyll seriously, despite our proven track record. Whimsically, in 2015 we noticed a company in Canada were listed on Toronto, claiming to do what we do. Their listing vanished, then the company vanished.

 

Joking aside, we find ICG interesting as they look like the sort of company capable of assisting small fry through the difficult growth phase. We’ve been happy to remain discrete, due to a distaste for the type of folk who want to “big” things rather than tell the unvarnished truth. We know we’re good at what we do, also knowing the level of work required to extend our magic across every market worldwide would end badly. But we would be happy to chat to a company producing a proper Ai, rather than the hype offered by ChatGPT and the rest of the family.

But we do like the “About” ethos being offered by LSE:ICG, so we’re liable to get gentle in our share price potentials.

Now above 2,086 should prove useful, giving an initial target level at 2,224p with our secondary, if beaten, an eventual visit to 2,378p.  Visually, such an ambition is difficult, given a high which is below the price movements earlier this year. But it does dump the price into a zone, where a longer term “all time high” of 2,694 apparently becomes possible.

 

For things to go wrong, below 1,990 should serve the first trigger, hitting a reversal cycle to an eventual 1,537. Visually, this scenario makes some sense, creating a picture of a “double bottom” which is sure to get the markets excited.

Our gut feeling is an expectation this is a share price heating toward almost the 2700 level.[

 But of course, Mrs T&T really wants her RC45 back…

 

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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
11:13:20PM	BRENT	6472
11:17:11PM	GOLD	3377.15									‘cess
11:26:17PM	FTSE	8798.5
11:28:50PM	STOX50	5404	5381	No	idea		5414	5428	5469	5390	‘cess
11:44:48PM	GERMANY	24273.2	24117	24022	23913	24187	24303	24360	24569	24247
11:52:41PM	US500	5969.7	5963	5954	5942	5973	5990	6011	6035	5965
11:32:08PM	DOW	42406.7
11:36:29PM	NASDAQ	21709									‘cess
11:40:11PM	JAPAN	37671

 

4/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8801 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,523,776,146 a change of 16.37%

3/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8787 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,606,086,540 a change of 3.39%

2/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,422,234,482 a change of -53.25%

30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%

29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%

28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 a change of -20.39%

27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 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

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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:CNA Centrica Close Mid-Price: 161.7 Percentage Change: -1.40% Day High: 165.25 Day Low: 161.5

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce Close Mid-Price: 891.2 Percentage Change: -0.34% Day High: 900.4 Day Low: 890.4

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#GOLD #SP500 This one is difficult. Once upon a time, we gave a target for Gold at $2800, not expecting such a level to be exceeded. Last year, on October 31st, the metal bubbled up to our target level, it immediately retreated, thus proving (thankfully) we’d been watching the correct trend. Unfortunately, the market was only willing to feed us 3 months of feeling smug, then the price of Gold boldly moved above our 2800 dollars at the start of February this year. It was now wandering into an area where we’d to admit we were as clueless as a UK politician in a room full of facts.

Quite genuinely, we’ve been forced to remain fairly silent on Gold until it becomes clear the market actually knows what it’s doing. But when we look back in time to 2002, we’ve discovered a trail of logic which allows for further growth in the price of the precious metal. Apparently, we are now to believe market closure above just 3,400 dollars should trigger gains in the direction of an initial 3,713 with our secondary, if bettered, calculating at 3,780 dollars.

We’re a little interested in these target levels, the close proximity suggesting a further price ceiling awaits. At present, we cannot calculate anything above 3,780, effectively expecting a repeat of what happened at our 2,800 dollar level. Over the years, this sort of thing has happened, when an object such as an index goes above a particular target level. For instance, when the DOW went above 36,000, it became a problem with dodgy calculations pointing at a future 45,000 as becoming a special target level of interest. The index has now brushed against this level twice, being forced to retreat each time, now giving the potential of reversals to 35,000 and perhaps a bounce. But should 35,000 break, all hell risks breaking loose.

And should the price of Gold intend go wrong, it now needs melt below 3,200 as this risks triggering reversals to 3,112 with our secondary, if broken, at 2,931. But for now, we think Gold intends bubble up toward the high 3,700 dollar level.

 

 

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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
11:15:45PM	BRENT	6550	6431	6381	6312	6515	6588	6702	6868	6486
11:18:19PM	GOLD	3359.16	3332	3326	3304	3362	3368	3377	3392	3344
11:23:03PM	FTSE	8789.7	8739	8707	8671	8779	8801	8814	8839	8781
11:27:14PM	STOX50	5385.6	5325	5309	5283	5350	5390	5403	5429	5373
11:35:27PM	GERMANY	24156	23817	23737	23596	23966	24161	24214	24347	24099
11:47:30PM	US500	5972.7	5900	5871	5834	5923	5980	5986	6034	5958	Success
11:51:12PM	DOW	42543.7	42054	41871	41635	42184	42578	42691	42816	42424
11:53:20PM	NASDAQ	21662.6	21360	21242	21084	21460	21716	21755	21998	21596
11:55:33PM	JAPAN	37788	37351	37222	37018	37547	37863	37922	38114	37692

 

3/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8787 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,606,086,540 a change of 3.39%

2/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,422,234,482 a change of -53.25%

30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%

29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%

28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 a change of -20.39%

27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 a change of 0%

23/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8717 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,245,191,684 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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#Bitcoin #Gold It was a good weekend. Formula One managed to bring a few exciting laps but more importantly, Dr Who appears to be acknowledging the dreadful choices of unwatchable characters in the lead role, bringing Billie Piper back as the main character. It’d certainly be funny, if she returns as The Doctor and is assigned Chris Ecclestone as her sidekick. As we’d hoped, the Grand Prix drivers were learning how to race again, aside from one who employed a Mario Karts move against a superior car. It proved to be one of these occasions, where penalty points and race punishment was correctly applied.

Elsewhere in the world, things have been stirring!

 

In the dream world of crypto currency, the media have been lining up to ridicule JD Vance, the American vice president who will obviously always be wrong due to being appointed by President Trump. However, the guy seems to have a point in expressing an interest in future growth for Bitcoin, despite it recently attaining an all time high, then retreating slightly.

From our perspective, closing above 105,000 dollars was important as it “proves” the potential of some future traffic upward. Movement next above 112,000 calculates with the potential of a lift to 120,213 next with our longer term secondary, if bettered, working out at 135,800 dollars. One interesting aspect of Bitcoins price movements emanates from the price now mapping itself against each days closing prices, rather than day trade highs and lows. For us, this is quite a happy thing as it makes life easier when looking for danger points. At present, below 92,000 dollars would provide the first solid signal of reversals ahead.

We can also make the point about the circled area on the chart below, this being a point where Bitcoin managed to close below the uptrend. In summary, should the price dip below such a level at $52,000, we shall swiftly revert to suggesting folk buy a pair of running shoes and escape a terrible future.

 

Tullow Oil is finally scratching the itch which has been rotten share price movements. To be honest, we’ve been expecting a news report where a hedge fund or unheard of Oil Company shall appear and make a budget offer for the company shares. Too often, price movements here have felt like a share price being artificially managed. We’d not be surprised if an offer of 20p/share were dangled, offering some slight succour to punch-drunk investors.

Tullow share price has finally closed above the downtrend since May of last year, giving very slight hope things may have changed.

Movement next above just 15.8p calculates with the potential of a lift to an initial 16.4p. Our secondary, should such a mild target be exceeded, works out ay 20.5p and an expectation of some hesitation, given price price movements from August to December last year. Closure above 20.5p shall be regarded as a REALLY BIG DEAL, opening a wild series of calculations which point to a future 41p eventually. Perhaps the company shall drill into a world, where their machinery can reliably supply fabled  McDonalds milk shakes or Printer Ink, two products which have real market value.

 

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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
11:37:00PM	BRENT	6502									Success
11:39:18PM	GOLD	3388.41	3343	3324	3302	3363	3390	3402	3454	3344	Success
11:44:53PM	FTSE	8805
10:53:49PM	STOX50	5383.8
10:59:52PM	GERMANY	24061.6									‘cess
11:04:07PM	US500	5931.6
11:07:23PM	DOW	42279.7
11:10:37PM	NASDAQ	21478.8	21123	20986	20804	21221	21537	21593	21782	21449	‘cess
11:17:59PM	JAPAN	37731

2/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,422,234,482 a change of -53.25%

30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%

29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%

28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 a change of -20.39%

27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 a change of -17.68%

23/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8717 points. Change of -0.25%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,245,191,684 a change of 42.4%

22/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8739 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,088,072,082 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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LSE:AAL Anglo American Close Mid-Price: 2220 Percentage Change: -11.33% Day High: 2503.56 Day Low: 2143

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#FTSE #DOW  Finally, the stars aligned and brought a Grand Prix where there a few utterly fantastic laps, along with some reasonable attempts at cheating from the reigning world champion. Surely, at some point, the guy is going to have to admit he’s never going to challenge Louis Hamiltons 8 honest World Championships. Unfortunately, we’ve discovered a new way of avoiding watching Formula1 on a Sunday afternoon, giving plenty of reason to spend time in the garden with plausible deniability for any complaints from my wife.

Over the last 3 months, we’ve knocked together some seriously successful batches of wine. Our number #1 has turned out to be a Rioja, produced from grape concentrate from France. Our #2, amazingly, is a Pinot Grigio. This 25 litre batch has proven wonderful, perfectly capable of converting red wine folk into the usually bland world of white wine. And our #3 success story was another batch we called Klingon Blood Wine (actually a Cabernet Sauvignon) which has turned out to be rather nice, equally fine with morning cornflakes or with late night snacks!

The “secret” to the improvement in our wine efforts is regarded as being due to 2 things. Firstly, we’ve only been using spring water, obtained and licensed locally. And secondly, we’re now paranoid about fermentation temperatures, ideally aiming to hold things at 24c during the fermentation process. However, we think we can do better, so Sunday afternoon was spent distilling water on a home made pressure system. This involved boiling water, letting the steam escape from the pressure container and pass through a condenser coil (a spiral of copper tubes), this coil residing within a basin of seriously cold water. Our easy fix was to pour water from a garden hose into the basin, while occasionally tipping a load of ice cubes into the water. Any superheated steam passing through the condenser coil quickly changed into liquid, dripping into our 5 litre collection containers. Our theory is fairly basic, tap water in Argyll is very palatable but has produced some truly brilliant and truly awful wine fermentation runs. We’ve even got 30 bottles of a Shiraz which is foul, kept only in the hope it may mature! But since switching to Spring Water and being brutal with temperature control, quality has improved. But our theory is Distilled Water may produce the most stable run of imported grape concentrate, so our utterly tasteless water production during the Sunday Grand Prix will be used along with another batch of Rioja grape concentrate. Hopefully, the end product shall be a Rioja with serious depth of taste. We shall know this outcome in a few weeks.

In summary, if looking for a hobby which gives a perfect excuse to avoid watching a Grand Prix, getting into making real wine isn’t the worst idea and once you’ve made all the usual mistakes, it becomes fun, requiring a greater degree of patience than working with the stock markets. Our own production is now bottled, stored in a garden shed, and labelled with funny descriptions, giving a super way of saying thanks to folks and at the same time, gathering opinions on how good the experiment has been. From a personal perspective, it can be really funny, returning to the car after a dog walk and finding a bunch of empty wine bottles from other dog walker friends hoping for a refill.  These dog owners are generally thanked by giving them cleaned and relabelled 2 Litre cola bottles which don’t need returned. This largess with wine isn’t a big deal, the final cost of each bottle often being just over £1. But the satisfaction of producing something considerably better than supermarket wine or petrol station plonk, is wonderful. Especially with our most recent Rioja which, after the feedback from 8 freebie bottles, is now maturing in the office wine rack, retained for our own in-house use on deserved occasions during the coming year.

Hopefully the distilled water fermentation run shall not be a disaster. Our preference is to avoid adding “ates” to our fermentation mixes, trying to produce a product which is free of additives. As for why, with no intention of selling the production and generally not consuming it immediately (aside from our Klingon Blood Wine), it’s a fun hobby, giving this writer the chance of indulging his experiments. Let’s just say manufacturing the kit to produce distilled water was not straightforward,  the method to force condensation of superheated steam verges on being ‘a little’ dangerous. But on the bright side, it repurposed the use of an old big blue Calor Gas bottle, along with learning how weld properly. And better still, avoiding creating a seriously explosive situation.

My wife is quite happy with this sort of hobby thing, previously having tolerated my motorcycle phase, my sports car phase, my (still missed) big boats phase, my skiing phase, while always remaining in tolerant terror of my “I’ve got an idea!” mindset. Making wine seems to be socially acceptable, for most folk consuming little time once an initial production kit is obtained, fairly cheaply from Amazon or Ebay.

 

And this brings us to Barclays, a share price needing lots and lots of patience as it’s refusing to move with any strength. When we previously reviewed Barclays, we’d privately calculated the share price closing above 333p as being important. Arrogantly, we failed to mention this trigger level as closure above 316p should have been inevitable. When it closed on May 13th, this trigger level was engaged and the price – utterly uselessly – surged to 331p and has done very little since, it being hard to ignore the price remained below our private 333p trigger level. This was a big deal, something we should have mentioned but retained as a “secret”, thinking it would simply confirm our logic. Unfortunately, since May 13th the share price has carefully remained below our 333p level, almost as if the market itself knows a nudge above such a point should drive the share price a little crazy. From our perspective, this is probably quite a big deal, the market essentially confirming where our important trigger levels are.

Share price closure above 333p now calculates with an expectation of movement to an initial 352p with our secondary, if beaten, a longer term 394p. This is a really big deal, dumping the share price into a zone where a long term 600p has become viable.

If things intend go horribly wrong, the share price needs close below 311p as reversal to an eventual “bottom” of 200p is expected.

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
10:07:40PM	BRENT	6261.9	6195	6092	5063	6550	6405	6471	6560	6309
10:24:55PM	GOLD	3288.86								3291
10:35:10PM	FTSE	8787								8757
10:36:20PM	STOX50	5364.5								5356
10:39:17PM	GERMANY	24024								24079
10:44:51PM	US500	5903								5885
10:48:03PM	DOW	42216	41817	41789	41479	42157	42382	42615	42882	42164
10:51:47PM	NASDAQ	21322								21289
10:56:44PM	JAPAN	37662								37651

 

30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%

29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%

28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 a change of -20.39%

27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 a change of -17.68%

23/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8717 points. Change of -0.25%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,245,191,684 a change of 42.4%

22/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8739 points. Change of -0.53%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,088,072,082 a change of 2.41%

21/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8786 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 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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