Author: T&T Staff

#FTSE #Stoxx As another week goes by with the FTSE doing very little of interest,  our inclination remains to examine reasons the market may not be exhibiting movement of any strength. Our conspiracy theory for the current lethargy remains being a suspicion the market is afraid, if things start to go up, a runaway series of gains could see the UK’s index accelerate upward by an astounding 7.7% to somewhere around 9386 points. The entire concept is obviously daft, or would be, if not for the number of occasions we’ve seen the market panic, when the grown ups realise they’ve let a share price drift below a major trigger level. It’s never a surprise, seeing a share experience an unscheduled surge upward very soon after a serious drop trigger is enabled.

In the case of the FTSE, the index wandered above a serious gain trigger at the start of May, spending the intervening month wandering around like US ex-President Biden once he’s muttered incoherently into a microphone and discovered some bushes to hide in. We’ve also been keeping a weather eye on the French CAC 40 index, if only for seeking some humour from the French President being smacked in the face by his “wife?”. When the French government tried to declare in was obvious fake Russian footage, they’d somehow missed the fact the worlds media also so it happen live. After the story changed to it being the couple “letting off steam” after a Long Haul flight, my wife and I cheerfully reminisced about all the times she’d smacked me in the face with both hands, after a boring flight. To be fair, she admits she’s often considered it, as 12 hours of my brilliant humour can apparently be difficult. Returning to the point, despite the French market experiencing a foul week, the index has now managed to close in a “lower low” position which doesn’t bode well for the start of June.

 

Returning to the FTSE, if “they” opt to open the gates and let the market run free, it’s now the case we should anticipate movement above 8824 points as triggering market growth to an initial 8900 points with our secondary, if exceeded, calculating at an eventual 8990 points. This secondary target level would be important, signalling a new Higher High and placing the index on a route which should eventually find its way to 9386 points. If triggered, the tightest stop looks like 8716 points.

However, if our suspicion of the markets casting around to discover an excuse to avoid a sharp 7.7% rise proves correct, weakness now below 8700 points feels very capable of providing reversals down to an initial 8645 points with our secondary, if broken, at 8585 points.

Have a good weekend. It’s the Spanish Grand Prix, usually a great excuse for plenty of cheating while the drivers learn to actually race again, now the horror of Monaco is behind them.

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:09:07PM	BRENT	6328.5
11:12:02PM	GOLD	3317.03									‘cess
11:16:14PM	FTSE	8733.5	8698	8682	8634	8735	8747	8758	8779	8723	Shambles
11:19:17PM	STOX50	5364.6	5347	5336	5295	5377	5420	5453	5488	5390	‘cess
11:22:53PM	GERMANY	23929.2									‘cess
11:28:19PM	US500	5901.2									Shambles
11:31:03PM	DOW	42142
11:37:10PM	NASDAQ	21306.1									Shambles
11:40:40PM	JAPAN	37864

 

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 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 a change of -5.54%

20/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 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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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 1171 Percentage Change: + 3.26% Day High: 1168 Day Low: 1103

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LSE:IAG British Airways Close Mid-Price: 332.8 Percentage Change: -0.06% Day High: 340 Day Low: 333

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 159.8 Percentage Change: + 2.04% Day High: 160 Day Low: 157

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce Close Mid-Price: 851 Percentage Change: -0.79% Day High: 871 Day Low: 847.2

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 1.95 Percentage Change: + 5.41% Day High: 2.1 Day Low: 1.83

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#BrentCrude #DOW The holiday Monday ensured we neatly skipped over the puddle which is our weekly look at one of the UK’s retail banks. This weeks victim, Lloyds, almost provoked us to skip comment, then we noticed their share price had achieved our critical 77p level, even stalling at such a level for the most recent 7 sessions which tends suggest we’ve been (thankfully) following the correct trend! Importantly, despite the stall, on repeated occasions the price has closed at 78p, enacting our favourite miracle of closing above a price target level.

To dwell on the grim news first, it’s now the case Lloyds Bank share price need close below 52p to justify outright panic, this being a movement which would utterly trash our optimistic predictions. Without joking, this number is now a really big deal and worth remembering, just in case everything goes UK shaped and the price drops.

 

However, share movements this year impart some optimism, a mood shared amongst the big three retail banks, almost regardless of the ignored detail the USA has effectively declared economic war on the rest of the world. Then again, perhaps this is the reason the banks are starting to flourish, working on the basis banks tend enjoy international chaos. Watching UK Sterling perform well against the dollar is certainly giving an inkling as to what is going on in the economic world, a weaker dollar making the entire country more attractive from many aspects aside from one important one. Does anyone actually like Americans?

 

From our immediate perspective, above 78.1p should prove useful for Lloyds, ideally triggering a small surge to an initial 84p with our longer term secondary, if beaten, at a close by 87p. The proximity of these target levels tends suggest a risk of market hesitation, a price level at which share prices will inevitably bounce around. But importantly, the price is now trading in a zone where a future 112p has become a major item of interest, a price level at which we certainly anticipate some hesitation.

Amusingly, such a price target effectively represents the high before the fateful set of circumstances when Lloyds decided to introduce chaos theory to their share price. Instead of the usual market ploy of controlling a price by a share split, in this instance shareholders were offered the “attractive” chance to buy into a rights offer, based on how many shares they held. The offer wasn’t particularly attractive with under 80% of investors falling for the PR spin, the rest being sceptical of what was coming. With the swing of a magic wand, something akin to a Jedi Light Saber, the share price was slashed to below 79p and the rest is history, many folk effectively trapped into holding a share which became trapped under the initial offer price.

Only now, 16 years later, can we dare express some hope for the future.

We already utterly abhorred share price adjustments due to consolidation/splits/rights offers as the results (in the UK) rarely benefit share holders and the damage inflicted by Lloyds didn’t justify any alteration to our sceptical outlook. It’s quite easy to conclude “Consolidation is Designed to Bring Confusion”. Strangely, in the USA, a more ethical stance is possible as when Nvidia, Apple, Tesla etc offer 10 brand new shares to replace your old single share, the result tends be quite positive in the medium to longer term.

For now, we’re weirdly hopeful for the future of the retail banks…

 

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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
11:38:22PM	BRENT	6421.6	6349	6147	6029	6405	6501	6526	6603	6436	‘cess
11:39:12PM	GOLD	3285.21									‘cess
11:03:36PM	FTSE	8767.9									Success
11:06:02PM	STOX50	5437.5
11:09:35PM	GERMANY	24332.4									Success
11:13:21PM	US500	5975.2
11:18:15PM	DOW	42595.7	42040	41841	41574	42286	42648	42930	43518	42308	‘cess
11:29:15PM	NASDAQ	21677									‘cess
11:33:22PM	JAPAN	38227

 

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 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 a change of -5.54%

20/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of 0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 a change of -21.36%

19/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8699 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,688,091,786 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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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY Close Mid-Price: 503.5 Percentage Change: -0.59% Day High: 516.5 Day Low: 504.5

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 1134 Percentage Change: + 1.07% Day High: 1136 Day Low: 1116

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LSE:GRG Greggs Close Mid-Price: 2044 Percentage Change: -3.49% Day High: 2104 Day Low: 2006

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LSE:IAG British Airways Close Mid-Price: 333 Percentage Change: -0.39% Day High: 338.9 Day Low: 333.4

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 49.2 Percentage Change: + 0.20% Day High: 51.1 Day Low: 48.05

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 857.8 Percentage Change: + 0.73% Day High: 870.4 Day Low: 855.6

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LSE:SRP Serco. Close Mid-Price: 187.3 Percentage Change: + 0.16% Day High: 189.4 Day Low: 186

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 1.85 Percentage Change: + 5.71% Day High: 1.9 Day Low: 1.75

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#Gold #Nasdaq The long weekend proved perfect, from our perspective. On Sunday, we opted to skip the Monaco Grand Prix, visiting nearby Inverarey for lunch and a dog walk with our grand-children. Judging by the flak and fury the photo opportunity which is Monte Carlo generated, virtually all drivers finished in the same position they started the ‘race’. Surely, Formula1 management must now be forced to sort out the dreadful event. One funny thing about our trip to Inverarey is we pass a permanent sign which declared whether the A83 road is open or closed. This is essentially a roadside advert, broadcasting how utterly incompetent Scottish politicians are, making a decision to surrender to a a mountain which keeps sliding downhill and covering the road.

In addition to big electronic signs, the roads people opted to park a bunch of diggers and bulldozers in close proximity, ready to spring into life when bits of the mountain fall off! Any civilised country would either have built a new road avoiding the danger zone, or perhaps created an Alpine style of overhang to protect the road. However, it has been deemed more cost effective to do nothing, other than pay for maintenance of large LED signs, along with road crews in attendance 24/7. This isn’t a new problem, an issue which has been going on for years and ducked due to political cowardice, rather than phoning a company like Keller Plc and asking them to sort out the ongoing shambles.

 

Glancing at the Keller website, the problem with the A83 in Scotland is exactly up their street, a major project which would probably deserve inclusion in their “Projects” section!

 

With a share price presently trading around 1600p, some optimism looks justified for Keller as things are looking positive for the future.

Currently, share price movement above just 1608p looks capable of triggering gains toward a future 1830p with our secondary, if beaten, at a future 2185 and some very possible hesitation. The share price needs move below 980p to spoil the party, unfortunately giving the price plenty of bandwidth to flutter around before any solid surge upward. If choosing to play safe, waiting until the price exceeds the 2024 series of highs at around 1700p would make sense, if choosing an entry point. Regardless, there’s quite a lot to like with Keller’s share price movements.

Below 1195 risks a raised eyebrow, giving the potential for reversal to 1065p. This would drop the price into territory where the Big Picture expects a bounce. But should 1065 break, our secondary of 728p would take the share value below our 980p level, the point at which all our calculations are cancelled.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
11:24:47PM	BRENT	6370.1
11:29:18PM	GOLD	3304.83	3279	3261	3226	3305	3312	3321	3333	3298
11:33:08PM	FTSE	8804.1
11:36:26PM	STOX50	5427.9
11:42:25PM	GERMANY	24284.6
11:46:24PM	US500	5924.4
11:49:03PM	DOW	42374.7
11:52:25PM	NASDAQ	21408.8	21145	21119	21015	21307	21433	21513	21795	21300
11:56:43PM	JAPAN	38306

 

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 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 a change of -5.54%

20/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of 0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 a change of -21.36%

19/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8699 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,688,091,786 a change of -2.89%

16/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8684 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,886,977,578 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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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 620 Percentage Change: + 1.51% Day High: 620.6 Day Low: 611.6

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LSE:AVCT Avacta. Close Mid-Price: 31 Percentage Change: + 12.73% Day High: 30.5 Day Low: 26

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 506.5 Percentage Change: + 1.00% Day High: 509.5 Day Low: 503

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LSE:FGP Firstgroup. Close Mid-Price: 191.1 Percentage Change: + 1.97% Day High: 194.2 Day Low: 187.7

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 49.1 Percentage Change: + 6.86% Day High: 49.55 Day Low: 46.35

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 524 Percentage Change: + 0.15% Day High: 531 Day Low: 524.2

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 56.2 Percentage Change: + 3.69% Day High: 57 Day Low: 54.2

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 851.6 Percentage Change: + 1.89% Day High: 860.2 Day Low: 841.4

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#FTSE #WallSt This month, May, is proving quite boring for the FTSE. The first two weeks produced a FTSE rise of just 34 points, along with an overall trading range of around 140 points. Week three started with a surge into the 8700 range, then the market opted to go to sleep again with this week giving movement of a staggering 39 points. All things considered, despite plenty of world and political events, the market is proving pretty dire, though the retail bank sector is still looking interesting.

We’ve a theory, one which we are uncomfortable with and freely admit is probably daft, kicking open the Conspiracy Theory doors!

Our theory revolves around a problem number of 9,700 points. According to conventional logic, the FTSE is now trading in a zone with a target at 9,700 points or so. It’s certainly a pretty massive jump from current levels and market behaviour tends suggest the ‘gods in charge’ may have noticed what will happen, if “they” opt to let things run free. As we said, it’s an absurd suggestion, one which accepts there may be a controlling influence working on the UK index. Obviously, this isn’t the case as shown by the Covid19 drop during late Feb, early March 2020, with complete independence and absolute co-incidence, markets everywhere decided to relax by around 35%. This was a remarkable show of agreement amongst institutions and traders worldwide, all reaching the same conclusions, at the same time, in their own country. For those who believe such a thing, we’re about to publish a Special Offer for the sale of Tower Bridge in London…

Usually, we’ve noticed the market gods react in utter panic, when they stumble across a respectable share with a price about to head down the toilet. In these instances, there’s typically a panic direction reversal which is usually presaged by a surprise Gap Up in a share price, followed by a period of remorseless rises to get a share price out of the lemming zone. In the case of the FTSE, we’re genuinely not sure of what to propose. Unlike US and Europe markets, in 2023 the FTSE opted not to follow other G5 trends, instead trading in a fairly flat fashion until the start of 2025, when the market gods decided it was now time for the FTSE to join the rest if the civilised world in heading upward. Essentially, our gut feeling is of the UK being intentionally stalled, perhaps due to our utterly incompetent Government enacting constant “Hold My Beer” positions to show the previous Boris Johnson administration how badly they can really run the country. It’s as ridiculous as the logic used, when “they” claim raising interest rates fights inflation, a concept as viable as giving the fire brigade petrol to pour on fires.

If it is indeed the case these mythical market gods are in a panic, the next phase should be a contrived excuse for sharp market reversals to seriously slow things down. Who knows, maybe a discovery of a second brain cell in a UK political leader will cause issues, double the thinking power thus capable of causing double the damage to the country.

 

The only thing more boring than FTSE movements promises to be the Monaco Grand Prix this Sunday, The organisers are pretending to turn it into a race by forcing TWO pit stops on teams, the naive theory being the race may be governed by which teams do the fastest tyre change. As last years event saw only 4 overtakes in terrible excuse for a race, the pit stop idea seems good except for the salient detail teams will carry out pit stops when the usual Safety Car sessions occur, effectively locking drivers in place while giving them a free pit stop. As drivers often run into walls on this race, it’s probable absolutely nothing has changed. To retain this awful event on the Formula 1 calendar, perhaps they should run a simultaneous cycle race on the track, making it both entertaining and also providing a service to humanity. In the UK, we’re supposed to believe bicycles are safe on 60mph roads but unsafe on 70mph motorways. Alternately, adopting the idea of spraying water on the track at certain bends would save the dreadful race. Our own preference is to watch the Qualifying Run on Saturday, the timed sessions for placement giving a pretty reliable suggestion of what the results will be in 24 hours.

A big problem this year is a coming change of weather in Scotland, suggests freezing temperatures on Sunday and rain later, forcing us to stay indoors and watch the worst “race” on the F1 schedule. Which is a pity, because with grand-daughters visiting, a “science” experiment has been promised which involves explosive dangers, grandchildren loving the idea of blowing stuff up.

 

Returning to the FTSE and its immediate promise of being as interesting as Monaco,  the index apparently needs below 8688 points to trigger imminent reversal to an initial useless 8673 points with our secondary, when broken, at 8632 points and a hopeful rebound.

However, one of our big rules suggest we should anticipate some gains as above just 8740 should now trigger gains to an initial 8787 points with our secondary, if beaten, at 8812. This secondary level is liable to push a panic button, should our silly theory the market is trying to inhibit positive index movement.

 

Have a good weekend, hopefully drying than here in Argyll where it has not rained for a stunning 12 days, ensuring lots of panic messages about the dangers of lighting fires.

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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
11:10:15PM	BRENT	6348.1	6306	6167	6017	6399	6407	6414	6450	6364	‘cess
11:13:31PM	GOLD	3295.74	3279	3263	3236	3304	3316	3330	3347	3294
11:16:36PM	FTSE	8754.5	8688	8671	8628	8726	8764	8772	8800	8740	Success
11:23:02PM	STOX50	5433	5418	5411	5400	5430	5444	5451	5473	5424	Success
11:26:58PM	GERMANY	24047.6	23944	23884	23817	23975	24084	24122	24216	24016
11:36:31PM	US500	5848.3	5812	5789	5727	5856	5880	5901	5931	5843
11:38:36PM	DOW	41838	41615	41402	40912	41877	42092	42214	42414	41955
11:41:28PM	NASDAQ	21086.5	21093	21060	20990	21171	21267	21316	21433	21196
11:47:58PM	JAPAN	37001	36915	36832	36709	37057	37200	37251	37437	37121

 

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 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 a change of -5.54%

20/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of 0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 a change of -21.36%

19/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8699 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,688,091,786 a change of -2.89%

16/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8684 points. Change of 0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,886,977,578 a change of 4.8%

15/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8633 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,571,274,924 a change of 9.38%

14/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8585 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,007,730,039 a change of 12.14%

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:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 502.5 Percentage Change: + 0.10% Day High: 503 Day Low: 494.8

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LSE:CAR Carclo. Close Mid-Price: 38.75 Percentage Change: + 0.91% Day High: 39.8 Day Low: 38.5

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LSE:IGG IG Group Close Mid-Price: 1118 Percentage Change: -0.89% Day High: 1148 Day Low: 1114

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LSE:PMG Parkmead. Close Mid-Price: 15.75 Percentage Change: + 8.62% Day High: 16.25 Day Low: 14.5

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 839 Percentage Change: + 1.77% Day High: 837.6 Day Low: 821.6

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LSE:SPX Spirax Close Mid-Price: 5785 Percentage Change: -1.28% Day High: 5895 Day Low: 5750

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#GOLD #SP500  We were quite chuffed at coining a new term following an unpleasant side effect from the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. “Turbo Flu” rather perfectly described an extremely unpleasant Tuesday night, where just about everything which could go wrong did! Of course, by 7am, there was a complete “what the heck was that?” recovery, along with feeling like a bit of a fraud,  now feeling absolutely fine. The residual fly in the ointment had been consumption of around 4 litres of water during the night, meaning any attempt to sleep was punctuated by a need to rush to the loo. This was either my 9th or 10th treatment, and became the first which also provided an absolute kicking.

In the grand scheme of things, the vaccine drama’s probably look as chaotic as Gulf Keystones story since their share price experienced a 100/1 Split back in 2016, designed to make the market believe the price was now respectable… It clearly has not worked, thanks to nothing effectively happening for the last 9 years. Until the end of March, it was starting to look like GKP were perhaps about to do something useful but suddenly, almost as if the market noticed the potentials, the share price was reversed by 25% to firmly place it back in its box. It is certainly now the case the share needs CLOSE above 200p (blue) before we can accept the potential of a climb to an initial 276p with our secondary, if bettered, working out at a longer term game changing 340p, a price level which should take the share into position for future optimism.

We fear the share is about to experience further misery as below just 148p has the potential of triggering reversal down to an initial 124p with our secondary, if broken, down at 95p and a probable bottom, visually giving an ideal point from which to hope for a bounce. To escape this expectation, the share price needs close a session above 200p, an event which will utterly foul our reversal expectations.

 

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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
10:45:30PM	BRENT	6410.5									Shambles
11:23:01PM	GOLD	3318.9	3286	3279	3264	3319	3324	3333	3404	3300
11:25:34PM	FTSE	8729.3
11:29:11PM	STOX50	5405.3
11:32:13PM	GERMANY	23920									‘cess
11:34:15PM	US500	5842.1	5830	5805	5760	5885	5940	5979	6028	5900	‘cess
11:39:33PM	DOW	41810.3									‘cess
11:41:56PM	NASDAQ	21070.4									Success
11:44:40PM	JAPAN	36908									Success

 

21/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8786 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 a change of -5.54%

20/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of 0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 a change of -21.36%

19/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8699 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,688,091,786 a change of -2.89%

16/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8684 points. Change of 0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,886,977,578 a change of 4.8%

15/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8633 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,571,274,924 a change of 9.38%

14/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8585 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,007,730,039 a change of 12.14%

13/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8602 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,357,315,867 a change of -14.15%

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:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 156.6 Percentage Change: + 0.38% Day High: 158 Day Low: 155.2

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 48.35 Percentage Change: + 4.99% Day High: 48.55 Day Low: 45.25

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp. Close Mid-Price: 77.98 Percentage Change: -0.05% Day High: 78.68 Day Low: 77.96

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 519.4 Percentage Change: + 0.70% Day High: 522.2 Day Low: 516

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 54.2 Percentage Change: + 0.37% Day High: 55.2 Day Low: 53.2

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 824.4 Percentage Change: + 0.83% Day High: 833.4 Day Low: 824.2

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 #FTSE #DOW Choosing to investigate Pfizer became obvious, due to my rolling my sleeve up at 10.33am and received the utterly painless jab. It looks like I’ve had 9 vaccinations, only one from Astrazeneca back in the older days, all 8 others served up by Pfizer. The nurse asked if I wanted to go through the potential side effects, it was easy to shrug and leave as I’ve never experienced any grief from Pfizer. Until now…

Sitting working on this report, I’m being forced to stop every now and then and huddle over an electric heater. Literally every part of my body bursts into unexpected shakes, making typing quite an adventure. Zapping my forehead with a lazer temperature gauge boasts I’m healthy despite feeling like hypothermia is only a beep away. It’s safe to suggest I’m experiencing my very first Covid-19 vaccination side effects. Being now wrapped in winter clothing, wearing toasty snow boots and a room heat which is simply absurd. I can feel the heat of the air on my hands and face, both of which are freezing!

There’s a reasonable chance Wednesday shall be skipped as should I feel this way at 8am, my alarms shall be turned off as the side effect should only last 24 hours.

 

It’s now the case where above 25p calculates with the potential of a lift to an initial 31p with our longer term secondary, if beaten, at 38p. For the longer term, we can calculate a distant 41 is exerting an attraction.

Our alternate scenario allow below 22.5 to provoke reversal to an initial 21 with our secondary, if broken, an eventual bottom around 18p

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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
11:13:22PM	BRENT	6512.3
11:17:20PM	GOLD	3291.23									Shambles
11:22:35PM	FTSE	8785.5	8710	8675	8634	8748	8802	8862	9100	8702	‘cess
11:26:39PM	GERMANY	24026.6
11:49:00PM	US500	5933.4
11:52:10PM	DOW	42608.2	42478	42382	42216	42651	42714	42806	42914	42583
11:54:55PM	NASDAQ	21342.5									‘cess
11:58:38PM	JAPAN	37567									‘cess

05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of 0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 a change of -21.36%

19/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8699 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,688,091,786 a change of -2.89%

16/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8684 points. Change of 0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,886,977,578 a change of 4.8%

15/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8633 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,571,274,924 a change of 9.38%

14/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8585 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,007,730,039 a change of 12.14%

13/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8602 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,357,315,867 a change of -14.15%

12/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8604 points. Change of 0.58%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,240,262,967 a change of 23.36%

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:AVCT Avacta Close Mid-Price: 30 Percentage Change: -6.25% Day High: 32 Day Low: 29.5

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 329.6 Percentage Change: + 1.20% Day High: 330.75 Day Low: 326

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LSE:DLG Direct Line Group. Close Mid-Price: 300 Percentage Change: + 2.53% Day High: 299 Day Low: 293.6

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 1041 Percentage Change: + 1.46% Day High: 1054 Day Low: 1005

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LSE:GENL Genel. Close Mid-Price: 53.7 Percentage Change: + 0.37% Day High: 53.4 Day Low: 52.8

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 335.3 Percentage Change: + 1.12% Day High: 337.4 Day Low: 330.9

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1120 Percentage Change: + 0.45% Day High: 1126 Day Low: 1113

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 46.05 Percentage Change: + 0.77% Day High: 47 Day Low: 45.3

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 78.02 Percentage Change: + 2.87% Day High: 77.9 Day Low: 76.28

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 515.8 Percentage Change: + 1.22% Day High: 517.8 Day Low: 511.8

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce Close Mid-Price: 817.6 Percentage Change: -0.20% Day High: 825.4 Day Low: 815

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1175 Percentage Change: + 1.64% Day High: 1175 Day Low: 1149

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#Gold #SP500  Successful manufacturer of “Own Brand” products for supermarkets, McBride actually came to mind during our venture to a “Red Wine In The Sun” Garden party. Distributing wide brimmed hats to other guests, it was quickly noted many of them featured model Dragonfly’s as shown below. When a guest witnessed a Bumble Bee promptly change course, it was confirmation the insect world choose to avoid predatory dragonfly’s as their life literally depends on it. This personal foible came about, due to severe personal adverse reactions to horsefly bites and the discovery there’s no repellent made for horsefly’s. A dragonfly mounted on a hat both confirms any suspicion the wearer may be a bit of a nutter, along with successfully deterring many stinging and biting creatures from approaching. The dragonfly thing is a little known Chinese solution to this problem.

To be honest, a personal preference would be to use a chemical spray to deter nasty insects but, despite McBride Plc’s comprehensive range of products, they don’t do any miracle repellents. But their fly sprays are excellent, justifying any belief supermarket “own brand” products are as good as conventional brand name items! But no-one makes horsefly (called Clegs in Scotland) repellent.

Pictured below, my favourite all weather hat against the backdrop of McBride’s website homepage. As a brief anecdote, it’s often said the only people who can wear hats are either musicians or live in the countryside. Visiting Glasgow on Saturday, the default was to be welcomed as a tourist, suggesting my transit from being a city dweller to country bumkin has been a success. Better still, every time I spoke, there was the vague hope any assumptions would change, folk thinking I was a real musician…

 

McBrides reached and exceeded our prior target levels from a year ago. For a while, we suspected things may be about to go horribly wrong, despite the price moving from the 75p level to our absurd sounding 150p. We don’t often promote “double your money” scenario and for a while, it felt like the 150p level shall be a big deal.  Some hesitation has certainly established itself, not a surprise with such a strong target. The share price reversed to the trend break level of 132p, even closing slightly below it at 130p. We’re not convinced this will prove to be a real catastrophe, the market double bottoming the share price as if underlining “this was an error”. In summary, since achieving our 150p level, the price has been all over the place but we’re inclined toward future optimism.

Now above 160p should prove important, calculating as capable of pushing movement to an initial 176p with our secondary, if beaten, coming in at 191p. In fact, overall it feels like a distant 250p could be exerting an influence. We’re fairly confident about our 191p target but less so about a future 250p, an ambition which would match the share price high of 2010…

In summary, we suspect this shall prove worth watching again but this time, we’ve no hope of the price once again doubling.

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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
11:30:44PM	BRENT	6510.6									‘cess
10:39:08PM	GOLD	3226.9	3205	3193	3174	3232	3249	3288	3333	3232
10:42:19PM	FTSE	8731.5									Shambles
10:44:37PM	STOX50	5445.7
11:09:37PM	GERMANY	24037.2									‘cess
11:11:58PM	US500	5963	5928	5915	5897	5952	5969	5997	6038	5944
11:16:12PM	DOW	42825.8									‘cess
11:19:18PM	NASDAQ	21440.3									Shambles
11:21:54PM	JAPAN	37581

 

19/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8699 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,688,091,786 a change of -2.89%

16/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8684 points. Change of 0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,886,977,578 a change of 4.8%

15/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8633 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,571,274,924 a change of 9.38%

14/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8585 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,007,730,039 a change of 12.14%

13/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8602 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,357,315,867 a change of -14.15%

12/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8604 points. Change of 0.58%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,240,262,967 a change of 23.36%

9/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8554 points. Change of 0.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,058,383,075 a change of -23.7%

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:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 331.6 Percentage Change: + 2.63% Day High: 330.9 Day Low: 320.3

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 75.84 Percentage Change: + 1.12% Day High: 75.78 Day Low: 74.54

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 509.6 Percentage Change: + 0.75% Day High: 510.6 Day Low: 503

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