Tesco Plc and the price of plums.

#Gold #DOW  

Here in Argyll, the usual flamboyant (vulgar) unspoken competitions of Xmas lights appear to be enjoying a cease fire in 2022.  Whether this is to do with a fear of electricity prices, the ‘cost of living’ crisis, or folk simply fed up with untangling light ropes cables is unknown. Perhaps its the case it’s just too blooming cold, ice always a factor in deciding whether to climb ladders to dangle thousands of twinkling led lights.

Personally, the cold has provided sufficient excuse give this year a miss but we gather, in the wider world, there’s a certain lack garden displays and cost is bound to be an issue. It makes us wonder whether the supermarkets are liable to dodge their usual success in December, folk nationwide being very aware of the “cost of stuff”. It’s becoming difficult to maintain any justification for profiteering presently, Crude Oil’s now cheaper than it was a year ago with the price of wheat following a similar trajectory. Even timber has been showing price reversals, though still not returning to sensible levels.

 

For Tesco, their share price has enacted some really strange movements recently, starting November by regaining the historical Red uptrend. Unfortunately, it celebrated the start of December by once again breaking below Red and this is rarely an encouraging signal, quite the converse.

Price weakness now below 208p risks turning the share into a turkey as this could easily trigger reversal to an initial 191p, slightly below the more recent low. Our secondary, should such a level break, is visually absurd as it calculates at a potential bottom of 135p. We’d be quite careful with rushing into any short positions on the basis of this calculation as we suspect Tesco would really need blot their copybook to provoke such a catastrophe. However, it’d hopefully provide an ideal jumping off place for a long position, in the unlikely event such an entry level ever appeared.

Maybe the market is paying Tesco back for their awful reliance on ‘self scan’ checkouts.

Our converse scenario demands Tesco share price exceed 236p to trigger recovery to an initial 259p with secondary, if exceeded, working out at 266p. The proximity of these target levels tends imply an expectation of some hesitation, even if the company share price somehow manages to claw its way back above Red on the chart.

 

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:08:06PM BRENT 78.27
10:48:27PM GOLD 1780.56 1777 1770 1758 1787 1795 1797 1803 1787 ‘cess
10:50:57PM FTSE 7467
10:53:15PM STOX50 3942.6
10:55:11PM GERMANY 14360.04
10:56:52PM US500 3986.72 3920 3904 3875 3950 3990 4004 4032 3956 Shambles
10:58:32PM DOW 33974.5
11:01:15PM NASDAQ 11695
11:03:20PM JAPAN 28028 ‘cess

 

12/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7445 points. Change of -0.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,840,427,704 a change of -2.03%
9/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7476 points. Change of 0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,940,691,101 a change of -3.99%
8/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7472 points. Change of -0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,146,170,093 a change of -10.96%
7/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7489 points. Change of -0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,779,316,344 a change of 0.25%
6/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7521 points. Change of -0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,764,980,013 a change of 13.53%
5/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7567 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,078,150,606 a change of 13.07%
2/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7556 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,491,031,065 a change of -9.42%

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:CCL Carnival Close Mid-Price: 645 Percentage Change: -1.53% Day High: 652.8 Day Low: 619.2

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Natwest (LSE:NWG) and a melting price.

#Brent #Dax  

We’ve become so cynical with the markets, spending the weekend with an occasional glance at the news to discover if a ‘breaking story’ has yet appeared, used as an excuse to force recovery of crude oil prices. Britain hasn’t invaded Ireland, Saudi refineries are still intact, Russia is still Russia, and Xmas is still coming. About the only “surprise” is the cold weather, along with the salient fact a Blocking High in winter brings very cold weather, along with wind power taking a little break when it’s most needed. As for Natwest, their share price remains utterly becalmed and similar to Brent Crude, it’s failing to do anything particularly interesting.

Of course, this week may prove interesting for financial shares with Bank of England widely expected to punt interest rates higher on Thursday, part of their insatiable campaign to battle price inflation by pushing prices upward… Also, everyone who had the misfortune of being deemed an essential worker during the pandemic are also expected to commence strike action, doubtless puzzled why they were sufficiently valued for people to open their doors and applaud on Thursday evenings for a few years. Maybe investors should start applauding bank shares at 8am on Monday mornings, maybe this is the trick we’ve all been missing as nothing else looks capable of making the retail bank sector provide real movement.

 

Our inclination is to allocate 266.5p as a trigger level against Natwest. Should the share price now exceed such a point, movement toward an initial 284p looks quite possible. Our longer term secondary, if such a level is bettered, now works out at 337p. For the longer term, closure above 284p is liable to be game changing, exceeding the pre-Covid high, along with a bunch of other glass ceiling highs at this level since 2019.

Conversely, if the market discovers an excuse to now trade NWG below 243p, reversal to an initial 228p now looks possible with secondary, if broken, down at a less likely (aside from the visuals) 198p.

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
4:20:16PM BRENT 76.86 75.18 74.865 73.95 76.47 77.58 77.94 78.86 76.35
4:21:28PM GOLD
4:43:34PM GERMANY 14325 14265 14234 14183 14360 14387 14461 14545 14307
4:46:50PM US500
9/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7476 points. Change of 0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,940,691,101 a change of -3.99%
8/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7472 points. Change of -0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,146,170,093 a change of -10.96%
7/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7489 points. Change of -0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,779,316,344 a change of 0.25%
6/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7521 points. Change of -0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,764,980,013 a change of 13.53%
5/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7567 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,078,150,606 a change of 13.07%
2/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7556 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,491,031,065 a change of -9.42%
1/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7558 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,958,235,310 a change of -42.03%

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:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 496.2 Percentage Change: + 0.18% Day High: 498.35 Day Low: 493.6

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LSE:IDS International Distribution. Close Mid-Price: 212.6 Percentage Change: + 0.90% Day High: 213.2 Day Low: 209.2

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LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group. Close Mid-Price: 4986 Percentage Change: + 4.05% Day High: 4993 Day Low: 4863

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Our popular FTSE for FRIDAY plus The S&P 500 plus Brent thoughts

#FTSE #Futures

Bank of America commented, in passing, they expect the US S&P 500 to drop around 20% early next year. Meanwhile, the FT suspect oil prices will rise thanks to the cap on Russian prices. We often express considerable reservations, when these sort of clickbait predictions surface, quite literally expecting the opposite to be what really happens.

 

The price of Brent Crude is now at a level not seen since December 23rd last year. Almost amusingly, Brent hit our oft mooted $77 drop target exactly, then bounced to 79.23 dollars. Unfortunately, next time it slumped it broke the 77 dollar level, making us suspect the next chance for some sort of rebound may be around 74.75 dollars. At time of writing, Brent is trading at 76.4 dollars and our software demands it exceed 79.23 before we should take any recovery seriously.

 

With regard the S&P, it’s currently showing some reasonable chart potentials. As shown clearly, the index broke below its pandemic Red uptrend but eventually exceeded the level of trend break. It’s currently carefully, very carefully, remaining above Red and giving some hope for the future. The index needs exceed 4100 points to hopefully ignite the touchpaper for some useful moves as this should prove capable of triggering an initial 4323 with secondary, if bettered, at 4530. The secondary is a really big deal, putting the index at risk of longer term traffic to 5108 points eventually.

Should a sufficiently clever reason be discovered to drive some reversals, below 3880 calculates with the potential of reversal to 3808 with secondary, if broken, down at 3760 and hopefully a bounce. Neither target level dumps the index in a zone, where a 20% reversal works out as possible.

FTSE for FRIDAY It’s been an annoying week for the FTSE with three sessions using the opening minute of trade to enact most of the days work. Few market strategies prove more irritating than the FTSE being gapped, then spiked, down at the open of business. Generally, this sort of nonsense proved a recipe for a wasted day, both Tuesday and Thursday finding themselves ensnared in such confusion.

The situation now suggests weakness below 7465 risks reversal to an initial 7419 points with secondary, if broken, at 7364. Of visual interest, our secondary target level implies the potential of another bonk against the Red uptrend since Covid-19 hit in 2020. Logically, we shall expect a bounce, should the index opt to attempt this line. If triggered, the tightest stop loss level looks like 7508 points.

 

A converse scenario asks what should be anticipated, should the FTSE 100 drag itself above this weeks downtrend at 7520 points?

Above 7520 calculates with an initial potential of 7546 with secondary, if exceeded, working out at 7605 points.

 

Have a good weekend and take care if chewing Xmas lights.

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:00:04PM BRENT 76.61 75.87 74.76 79.3 80.55 80.925 77.31 ‘cess
10:06:14PM GOLD 1788.83 1781 1777 1788 1795 1803 1781 ‘cess
10:08:26PM FTSE 7474.24 7461 7442 7494 7511 7529 7471 ‘cess
10:10:03PM STOX50 3928.4 3913 3897 3933 3935 3943 3915 ‘cess
10:11:34PM GERMANY 14288 14190 14148 14258 14305 14337 14250
10:13:11PM US500 3963.37 3926 3913 3947 3973 3982 3944
10:15:11PM DOW 33772 33545 33482 33703 33893 33949 33656 ‘cess
10:17:16PM NASDAQ 11631 11462 11376 11585 11674 11715 11567 ‘cess
10:19:12PM JAPAN 27744 27401 27261 27611 27762 27873 27653

 

 

8/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7472 points. Change of -0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,146,170,093 a change of -10.96%
7/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7489 points. Change of -0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,779,316,344 a change of 0.25%
6/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7521 points. Change of -0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,764,980,013 a change of 13.53%
5/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7567 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,078,150,606 a change of 13.07%
2/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7556 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,491,031,065 a change of -9.42%
1/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7558 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,958,235,310 a change of -42.03%
30/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7573 points. Change of 0.81%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,552,950,993 a change of 45.26%

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:AZN Astrazeneca. Close Mid-Price: 11316 Percentage Change: + 0.52% Day High: 11366 Day Low: 11206

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 337 Percentage Change: + 1.63% Day High: 347.6 Day Low: 337

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LSE:BT.A British Telecom Close Mid-Price: 112.55 Percentage Change: -3.72% Day High: 116.05 Day Low: 112.3

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LSE:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 22.64 Percentage Change: -1.99% Day High: 23.2 Day Low: 22.5

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LSE:VOD Vodafone Close Mid-Price: 85.93 Percentage Change: -1.97% Day High: 87.55 Day Low: 84.96

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Genedrive (LSE:GDR), prescribed to succeed?

#Gold #WallSt

We reviewed Genedrive exactly a year ago (link here) and it’s fascinating to see how our share price scenario unfolded. The saying; “sometimes life comes at you fast” rarely proved as apt as with their share price, the day following our logic giving 81p as a target witnessing the price exactly hit the 81p level, yet failed to exceed it. Instead, it closed the session at 70p.

Unfortunately, what happened next was to prove important.

On December 21st, their share price then, somehow, discovered a reason to close below 41p with what happened next being a tragedy. Make no mistake, from a Big Picture perspective, our calculations remain showing a ridiculous attraction from an impossible 14p. Perhaps anything below 8p shall discover a bounce point at 6p but we’re not exactly oozing confidence.

From a near term perspective, there’s a suggestion of movement above 10.6p as apparently capable of triggering slight recovery to 12p. Such a gain, obviously useless to the plethora of folk trapped since last year. But glancing at the chart, such a movement would return the share price above the Red uptrend which dates from the start of 2020. A crucial side effect of such a phenomena is normally a return of confidence from the market, creating a situation where immediate gains can outperform logic.

In the scenario of the share price closing a session at or above 12p, we anticipate future recovery to an initial 17.7 with secondary, if bettered, at 22p. Hopefully this proves worth watching as the company appear to be providing an attractive range of medical aids.

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
9:38:35PM BRENT 77.65 Success
9:40:41PM GOLD 1787.33 1768 1759 1749 1776 1791 1793 1797 1781 ‘cess
9:44:19PM FTSE 7496.44
9:46:20PM STOX50 3931
9:48:00PM GERMANY 14282
9:50:47PM US500 3931.92
9:54:36PM DOW 33589 33418 33315 33111 33694 33777 33814 33946 33492
9:57:10PM NASDAQ 11487.1 ‘cess
9:59:42PM JAPAN 27574 ‘cess

 

7/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7489 points. Change of -0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,779,316,344 a change of 0.25%
6/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7521 points. Change of -0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,764,980,013 a change of 13.53%
5/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7567 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,078,150,606 a change of 13.07%
2/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7556 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,491,031,065 a change of -9.42%
1/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7558 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,958,235,310 a change of -42.03%
30/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7573 points. Change of 0.81%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,552,950,993 a change of 45.26%
29/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7512 points. Change of 0.51%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,887,947,739 a change of 42.84%

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:SCLP Scancell Close Mid-Price: 26.75 Percentage Change: -0.93% Day High: 29.5 Day Low: 26.75

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LSE:VOD Vodafone Close Mid-Price: 87.66 Percentage Change: -1.80% Day High: 92.33 Day Low: 86.36

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Harbour Energy (LSE:HBR) & Ardmore Shipping (NYSE:ASC) optimism vs pessimism

#FTSE #Nasdaq

We’d a couple of interesting “reader requests” today and one immediately caught our eye. Ardmore Shipping. Surely Ardmore must enjoy local roots from Scotland, a local peninsula in Argyll giving terrible views of nothing really. Neither Greenock nor a partially sunken ship justify ever visiting. Perhaps the excellent Ardmore Malt whisky provided the inspiration but visiting their distillery on a wet day is an experience to avoid. And it’s often very wet, windy, and bleak in the Cairngorms.

Thankfully with no visible link to Scotland, Ardmore Shipping commenced 12 years ago, creating a new shipping company carrying chemicals and other products via their own fleet of tankers. Anyone who enjoys looking at pictures of tankers is advised to visit the corporate website. They appear proud of their fleet, described as the most modern in the industry. Their share price appears to justify some confidence as it’s currently trading at an all time high, requiring very little effort to once again climb higher.

We’ve calculates $16.50 as a viable trigger level to hopefully produce further share price gains. Above this level looks capable of promoting gains toward an initial 17.75 with our longer term secondary, should such a tame ambition be exceeded, working out at 22.75 dollars. Perhaps this shall prove worth keeping an eye on, their share price needing below $11 to promote a panic.

Harbour Energy (LSE:HBR) We’d glanced at this back in September and every appears to be going wrong with their share price. Visually, it’s easy to believe the price is experiencing a “double bottom” as visually, the current trip to the 300p level visually matches the lows from July earlier this year.

Alas, there’s a tiny little problem insofar as while this is indeed the case, their share price has broken below the Red uptrend which dates back to 2020. As the share price has not closed a session below 298.5p yet, the final nail has not been hammered but we’d advocate caution, despite them being proclaimed as the largest London Listed independent oil & gas company.

The immediate situation, their share price trading at 309 at time of writing, calculates with a threat of movement below 298 bringing a visit down to 243 with secondary, if broken, a probable bottom just above the 200p level.

 

If any miracle recovery is planned, the share price needs exceed 354p to apparently trigger movement to an initial 391p with secondary, if bettered, a longer term 460p.

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:03:43PM BRENT 79.8 Success
10:06:35PM GOLD 1771.7
10:09:12PM FTSE 7554.51 7500 7478 7460 7536 7557 7569 7592 7534 ‘cess
10:11:31PM STOX50 3940 ‘cess
10:13:59PM GERMANY 14302 ‘cess
10:16:22PM US500 3942.27 ‘cess
10:19:02PM DOW 33602.8 ‘cess
10:21:40PM NASDAQ 11553.1 11480 11421 11324 11565 11642 11698 11769 11558 Success
10:23:47PM JAPAN 27648

 

6/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7521 points. Change of -0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,764,980,013 a change of 13.53%
5/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7567 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,078,150,606 a change of 13.07%
2/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7556 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,491,031,065 a change of -9.42%
1/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7558 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,958,235,310 a change of -42.03%
30/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7573 points. Change of 0.81%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,552,950,993 a change of 45.26%
29/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7512 points. Change of 0.51%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,887,947,739 a change of 42.84%
28/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7474 points. Change of -0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,121,947,461 a change of -6.58%

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:FOXT Foxtons Close Mid-Price: 30.85 Percentage Change: -0.64% Day High: 31.4 Day Low: 30.75

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments Close Mid-Price: 2150 Percentage Change: -4.02% Day High: 2275 Day Low: 2140

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LSE:POLY Polymetal Close Mid-Price: 238 Percentage Change: -3.04% Day High: 248 Day Low: 230

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 93.49 Percentage Change: + 3.20% Day High: 94.45 Day Low: 91.22

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LSE:SCLP Scancell. Close Mid-Price: 27 Percentage Change: + 15.38% Day High: 27 Day Low: 23.25

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LSE:VOD Vodafone Close Mid-Price: 89.27 Percentage Change: -1.92% Day High: 91.11 Day Low: 88.56

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GBPUSD (FX:GBPUSD), a sure thing?

#Gold #SP500

Discussing the history of the Pound / Dollar relationship often feels like it’s about to drift into BBC Radio2 Ken Bruce territory, the much respected “One Year Out” rejoinder in his Popmaster morning quiz. An easy starter for 10 question; “when were things as bad for GBPUSD as they are now?” A glance at the chart gives an answer of sorts.

Except, the obvious answer is wrong!

Back in 1985, GBPUSD managed to close a session at 1.0444 whereas this years crash managed to “only” close at 1.0725. Thus, despite an intraday brush with parity, the September crash cannot be regarded as poorly as 1985’s shambles, instead perhaps indicating some real strength is about to make introductions by providing a strong bounce. To be fair, this possibility is about as close to a sure thing as the markets get!

Above 1.2345 should next trigger price recovery to 1.2851 with secondary, if beaten, at 1.3307.

This secondary makes a lot of sense, colliding with a Big Picture downtrend which dates back to 2007. As a result, some hesitation is anticipated at this secondary target level. For the longer term, it becomes crucial for the pairing to actually CLOSE a session above this Blue downtrend as this calculates as entering a cycle to some truly surprise ambitions with 1.6322 looking probable eventually. But for now, we suspect 1.3307 shall prove a viable ambition. Hopefully politicians refrain from spoiled the scenario.

 

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
9:30:12PM BRENT 83.16 Shambles
9:32:17PM GOLD 1766.95 1765 1758 1741 1779 1781 1786 1793 1771
9:37:56PM FTSE 7558.2 ‘cess
9:39:19PM STOX50 3953.4
9:41:38PM GERMANY 14445.66 Success
9:43:38PM US500 4002.12 3983 3952 3902 4013 4070 4097 4135 4039 ‘cess
9:46:01PM DOW 33971.2 ‘cess
9:47:58PM NASDAQ 11798 Success
9:50:32PM JAPAN 27669 Shambles

 

5/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7567 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,078,150,606 a change of 13.07%
2/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7556 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,491,031,065 a change of -9.42%
1/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7558 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,958,235,310 a change of -42.03%
30/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7573 points. Change of 0.81%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,552,950,993 a change of 45.26%
29/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7512 points. Change of 0.51%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,887,947,739 a change of 42.84%
28/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7474 points. Change of -0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,121,947,461 a change of -6.58%
25/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7486 points. Change of 0.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,412,047,721 a change of 36.26%

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:CEY Centamin Close Mid-Price: 107.8 Percentage Change: -0.46% Day High: 110.2 Day Low: 107.45

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 897 Percentage Change: + 0.16% Day High: 934.8 Day Low: 897.6

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 561.6 Percentage Change: + 0.59% Day High: 571.8 Day Low: 561.2

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LSE:IGAS Igas Energy Close Mid-Price: 17.2 Percentage Change: -7.53% Day High: 18.3 Day Low: 16.55

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2240 Percentage Change: + 1.82% Day High: 2260 Day Low: 2210

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 12 Percentage Change: + 10.09% Day High: 12.25 Day Low: 11

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Lloyds Banking Group & a Blue line

#Brent #Dax

We’ve been staring hard into the tea leaves, trying to figure out just what Lloyds – and the wider retail banking sector – are playing at. Recent weeks have seen Lloyds once again achieve our initial target level, yet the share price continues to move with levels of lethargy which would impress a local council department.

Our argument suggested above 44p as leading to 46.2p, an ambition which was successfully achieved over 5 sessions. In the period since, the share price has been flopping around like a goldfish exploring dry land for the first time. However, when we review price movements since the pandemic crash of 2020, there’s something significant worth paying attention to. Essentially, intraday movements appear unreliable as successful harbingers of things to come. Instead, it appears the market relies on the point where Lloyds actually closes a session to provide serious clues as to the share price’s plans.

For instance, currently we’re showing the potential of a visit to 47.75 intraday but, if we instead regard taking cognisance of closing prices as important, in reality we should be hoping for Lloyds to discover an excuse to CLOSE a session above Blue on the chart. At time of writing, the value of Blue is at 47.136p and closure above this point is liable be quite symbolic.

We’re maybe being a little long winded but, by closing above the immediate Blue downtrend, a cycle toward a future initial 54.25p looks possible. Our longer term secondary, if exceeded, works out at a visually pleasing 59.5p and matches the highs at the start of 2020, prior to the world catching Covid fever.

If everything intends go Liz Truss shaped, Lloyds currently requires to CLOSE a session below 44.5p as a reversal cycle to an initial 39p looks possible with secondary, if broken, hopefully at a trampoline bottom by 35.4p.

 

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
8:50:18PM BRENT 86.01 85.18 84.71 83.16 87.12 87.95 88.875 90.12 86.32
8:51:39PM GOLD 1797.78 1793
9:08:00PM FTSE 7552.65 7546
9:17:51PM STOX50 3982 3967
9:19:38PM GERMANY 14548.72 14468 14455 14418 14538 14586 14639 14731 14512
9:21:11PM US500 4067 4060
9:23:32PM DOW 34407.7 34234
9:25:25PM NASDAQ 11972.3 11960
9:27:03PM JAPAN 27696 27665

 

2/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7556 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,491,031,065 a change of -9.42%
1/12/2022 FTSE Closed at 7558 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,958,235,310 a change of -42.03%
30/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7573 points. Change of 0.81%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,552,950,993 a change of 45.26%
29/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7512 points. Change of 0.51%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,887,947,739 a change of 42.84%
28/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7474 points. Change of -0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,121,947,461 a change of -6.58%
25/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7486 points. Change of 0.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,412,047,721 a change of 36.26%
24/11/2022 FTSE Closed at 7466 points. Change of 0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,237,992,179 a change of -28.67%

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:CEY Centamin Close Mid-Price: 108.3 Percentage Change: -0.18% Day High: 109.45 Day Low: 106.6

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 2967 Percentage Change: + 0.44% Day High: 3006 Day Low: 2935

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LSE:IGAS Igas Energy Close Mid-Price: 18.6 Percentage Change: -7.92% Day High: 20 Day Low: 18.1

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 4130 Percentage Change: + 0.90% Day High: 4180 Day Low: 4070

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 10.9 Percentage Change: + 3.81% Day High: 11.5 Day Low: 10.75

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