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Our famed FTSE for Friday. Which might take longer…

#FTSE #Gold  Our insanely popular FTSE for FRIDAY encapsulates something so obvious, we often forget to mention it! While we throw around trigger levels and targets, we should really emphasise they’re not just for Friday. Assuming folks know we’re not Time Lords and nor do we drive DeLoreans, an inability to time travel shouldn’t be a difficult concept but when the FTSE hit our trigger level (from LAST Friday), the movement to 9075 still caught some users with surprise!

The bankable 79 points, while successful, still managed to take 3 days to achieve our upper target, largely thanks to the FTSE’s parsimonious daily movements until Wednesday of this week. Come Thursday, things appear to have changed as the UK index has now wandered into a zone where fairly strong upward travel has now become possible, perhaps even probable as long as our politicians and central bankers all go to Butlins for August, thus becoming unable to foul up the countries economy. We’re working on the basis “August” shall kick off this week, due to July running out of steam on Thursday.

 

Should this be the case, it’s now the case above 9179 points looks like the next major trigger for the relatively near term. In this scenario, above such a trigger level calculates with the potential of a lift to an initial 9282 points. Our longer term secondary works out at an astounding 9865 points, though our software warns of a hesitation potential at 9717 points.

But if we discuss the chart, there is a fly in the ointment.

Drawing a boring Red line from April of this year, the market has spent July slithering up a trend, carefully ensuring an uptrend hasn’t been broken. Should this engender optimism or should it warm of caution?  The blunt answer is we don’t know, there being no “warning shots” of dips below the trend line. Instead, market gains, while miserly, spent July paying homage to a trend line which makes absolutely no sense. If we treat the FTSE as a share, the lack of any dips below the trend imply a “gotcha” drop may not be ahead. Instead, substantial gains should be anticipated.

However,  below 9041 points could prove alarming, risking triggering reversal toward an initial 8816 points and a probable rebound. Our less likely secondary, should such a level break, works out at 8721 points.

 

Finally, it’s one of the better Grand Prix this weekend, often blessed with wet weather and always blessed with chaotic race rule interpretation.  But more importantly, our Sunday Grand Prix lunch cannot be influenced by the hosting country as Belgium isn’t famous for cuisine, aside from being the nation which probably invented what became known as French Fries. While personally, a Sunday lunch of Latte & Chips would be ideal, my wife tends have a different opinion and will doubtless conspire to serve Brussels Sprouts with Chips during the race…

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:01:02PM BRENT 6849.1 6848 6716 6911 7112 7182 6821 ‘cess
10:33:56PM GOLD 3368.17 3351 3329 3376 3392 3407 3372 ‘cess
11:42:28PM FTSE 9134 9096 9074 9120 9158 9168 9128 ‘cess
11:47:05PM STOX50 5351.7 5326 5288 5362 5372 5381 5354
11:50:56PM GERMANY 24278 24233 24119 24330 24425 24588 24240
11:53:22PM US500 6376.2 6355 6349 6368 6382 6530 6274 ‘cess
11:56:34PM DOW 44776.1 44665 44530 44811 45046 45105 44818 Shambles
11:58:35PM NASDAQ 23257 23043 22981 23170 23273 23287 23215

 

24/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9138 points. Change of 0.85%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,517,760,836 a change of 0.27%
23/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9061 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,503,107,449 a change of 15.9%
22/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9023 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,177,940 a change of -18.75%
21/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9013 points. Change of 0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,844,177,797 a change of 22.54%
18/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8992 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,769,021,038 a change of 5.9%
17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%

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:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 358.4 Percentage Change: + 1.86% Day High: 360.9 Day Low: 351.15

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LSE:BT.A British Telecom. Close Mid-Price: 220.2 Percentage Change: + 10.43% Day High: 221.2 Day Low: 199.4

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 960.9 Percentage Change: + 1.34% Day High: 968.6 Day Low: 954.5

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 183 Percentage Change: + 0.99% Day High: 183 Day Low: 181.2

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LSE:ITV ITV. Close Mid-Price: 87.8 Percentage Change: + 13.29% Day High: 88.25 Day Low: 80.35

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury. Close Mid-Price: 305 Percentage Change: + 1.53% Day High: 304.8 Day Low: 298.6

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1345.5 Percentage Change: + 1.39% Day High: 1361 Day Low: 1339

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 428 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 431.6 Day Low: 426.4

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 86.02 Percentage Change: + 3.44% Day High: 87.48 Day Low: 82.58

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Spirent Communications Plc (LSE:SPT) looking good.

#Brent #SP500 A few months ago, we published an optimistic outlook for Spirent, absolutely none of which has come to fruition! Instead, the share price has bumbled along, doing very little of actual interest. The really strange threat of takeover of the company is being clouded, due to some interesting news reports in recent weeks.

Companies such as UBS, Societe Generale, JPMorgan, and Barclays has been buying into Spirent in sufficient quantities which demand a public report, an RNS, is released. While we’d love to suggest such a collection of luminaries could be relied upon  to provide a reliable indication as to share price direction, historically they’ve all be guilty of some fairly large “oops” moments when trading shares, therefore reducing our confidence in their interest. Plus, there’s always the risk these predators will off-load their shareholdings in small increments, taking advantage of price movements due to buying frenzies from folks who think they’re getting in at the bottom of something good.

Should this be the corporate strategy, there are early signs they’ve made a mistake. Spirent share price is finally giving off some signs it’s about to move!

 

From a relatively near term perspective, it looks like movement above 201p should trigger a share price surge to an initial 205p with our secondary, if bettered, a more profitable 215p. Such a movement is liable to prove significant, creating a situation where recovery to an eventual 289p shall be regarded as a viable ambition. In such a scenario, there’s a reasonable probability 238p shall provide some hesitation is a longer term growth map, the share price stalling at a level previously achieved back in 2023.

To cancel such a potential, the share needs wither below 187p.

Share price movement below 187p looks a bit troubling, calculating with the potential of reversal to an initial 180p with our secondary, if broken, at 172p and a price level where some sort of bounce is expected.

For now, we’re inclined to favour market movements which indicate optimism, rather than questionable corporate manoeuvres. We’re fascinated at some of Spirent’s activities and a bit puzzled at the lack of real movement in their share price. But overall, we’re still interested, especially due to recent price movements.

 

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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
10:59:12PM BRENT 6793.1 6723 6670 6543 6775 6828 6864 6911 6762
11:01:30PM GOLD 3386.23
11:04:05PM FTSE 9111.4 Success
11:08:36PM STOX50 5418.2 Success
11:11:06PM GERMANY 24515.6
11:14:08PM US500 6367.4 6316 6295 6270 6340 6371 6376 6386 6355
11:17:38PM DOW 44897.6 Success
11:21:05PM NASDAQ 23244 Success
11:23:41PM JAPAN 41659 Success

 

23/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9061 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,503,107,449 a change of 15.9%
22/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9023 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,177,940 a change of -18.75%
21/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9013 points. Change of 0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,844,177,797 a change of 22.54%
18/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8992 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,769,021,038 a change of 5.9%
17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%

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:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 360 Percentage Change: + 8.11% Day High: 373.5 Day Low: 331

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LSE:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 2066 Percentage Change: + 2.84% Day High: 2078 Day Low: 2033

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 181.2 Percentage Change: + 0.55% Day High: 181.8 Day Low: 180

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 9.15 Percentage Change: + 2.81% Day High: 9.15 Day Low: 8.9

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LSE:PMG Parkmead. Close Mid-Price: 16.5 Percentage Change: + 6.45% Day High: 16.5 Day Low: 15.5

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury Close Mid-Price: 300.4 Percentage Change: -0.33% Day High: 303 Day Low: 298.8

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 428 Percentage Change: + 0.45% Day High: 429.8 Day Low: 423.3

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CMC Markets Plc (LSE:CMCX) and positive thinking.

#Germany #SP500  The very first thing we look at, when prowling through brokers platforms, is the chart package employed by the broker. Broadly speaking, the worst offerings are generally those where the company offers their in-house chart package whereas, from our perspective, if a brokerage has chosen to outsource their charts, the favourite thing to discover is an embedded TradingView chart package.

To explain, we’ve a few bias’ relating to chart systems and the core issue often surprises folk. We demand Candles to show the width of intraday movement and also, the ability to change to Line drawing, simply giving the closing prices for each session. What we dislike is a chart package which comes pre-loaded with all the garbage a company assumes users will like. Regular readers will know we eschew distractions such as MacD, Simple Moving Average, even Volumes, always preferring to present a chart which shows price movements and trend lines.

Our rather blunt assessment fairly basic, insofar as since 2004 when the Singapore  market turned on its computer, the last marketplace in the world which involved proper trader pits vanished. As a result, indicators which mapped Human Behaviour were no longer required and in theory, an entire motherload of pretty chart patterns which were based on Moving Averages became redundant. Instead, the Chart Guru market doubled down, further “new” miracle indicators being hyped, most of which only became correct after the fact of a movement. For a while, we did believe Keltner Bands (when tuned properly against an individual share) maybe gave reason to be used but, in the fullness of time, we last called up this indicator before 2020 as it’s both a nuisance to tune properly and unreliable anyway.

 

Curiosity demanded we throw a Keltner Band at CMC’s chart, just to see what was revealed. During 2025, the share price appears to be adhering to a 16 session period for major movements. If this (Moving Average based) trend is correct, there are indications the share price has commenced a downtrend in recent weeks. However, it is worth considering this downtrend was visibly kicked off by share price manipulation (circled),  the price being gapped down by the market to 239p on June 5th. This creates a suspicion the movement downward may prove to be contrived, creating a situation where our downward projection may prove inaccurate. The current situation suggests weakness next below 234p risks triggering reversals to an initial 156p with our secondary, if broken, an eventual bottom at 122p. Glancing at the chart, despite the addition on a pretty colour, these drop targets make little sense and thus, we’re not comfortable with them!

However, it feels more likely this downward trend shall prove “fake” and we should probably be keeping a weather eye on the potential of the share price nudging above 260p as a surprise recovery cycle shall almost certainly ignite. Exceeding such a trigger level calculates with the potential of a lift to an initial 334p with our secondary, if bettered, at 417p. Interestingly, these targets make some visual sense.

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:54:12PM BRENT 6788.1
10:57:38PM GOLD 3430.86 Success
11:01:13PM FTSE 9041.8 Success
11:04:36PM STOX50 5295.9 Success
11:12:30PM GERMANY 24077.9 23913 23873 23660 24046 24110 24141 24217 24056 Success
11:39:28PM US500 6309.8 6282 6261 6236 6302 6322 6330 6346 6305 ‘cess
11:43:05PM DOW 44601.6 ‘cess
11:46:31PM NASDAQ 23088.8 ‘cess
11:49:31PM JAPAN 40317 Success

 

22/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9023 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,177,940 a change of -18.75%
21/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9013 points. Change of 0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,844,177,797 a change of 22.54%
18/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8992 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,769,021,038 a change of 5.9%
17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%

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:ASC Asos** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:SBRY Sainsbury** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **

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LSE:AAL Anglo American. Close Mid-Price: 2340 Percentage Change: + 1.43% Day High: 2349 Day Low: 2291

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LSE:ASC Asos Close Mid-Price: 333 Percentage Change: -0.75% Day High: 348.5 Day Low: 329

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LSE:BT.A British Telecom. Close Mid-Price: 200.7 Percentage Change: + 0.40% Day High: 201.1 Day Low: 199.45

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury. Close Mid-Price: 301.4 Percentage Change: + 1.28% Day High: 302.2 Day Low: 296.4

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 426.1 Percentage Change: + 0.38% Day High: 428.1 Day Low: 423.2

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 83.94 Percentage Change: + 1.04% Day High: 84.2 Day Low: 83.16

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Gold prices and Lee Mack?

#Gold #WallSt  A strange phone call from my sister provided the best laugh of the year so far. She had recently moved house and had taken the family cat to a new Vet to get it registered, along with a checkup for the decrepit ancient black ball of temper. In starting the registration process, the Vet asked a difficult question!

“What’s the name of your cat?”

She didn’t have a clue, and calls to her children had the same answer. It appears, for nearly 20 years, the family always called the cat; “Cat”. Eventually deciding I’d probably know, she called and of course, my best effort was “the Cat”. She swallowed her pride, deciding to call her original Vet practice and discovered the thing was registered as “Kat”. The receptionist admitted it was a strange choice for a male cat. It seems, the animal has gone through its life without a name. But it knew the signal to walk away was when anyone used the word “Cat”. Her husbands contribution was to think it was called “Bob” or “Tom” originally but no-one liked his suggestions.

 

Similar to that feline, we’re struggling to find an appropriate word to describe the way Gold prices are behaving. In our rather cynical report 6 weeks ago, we commented ;

In a spiteful attempt to prove us wrong, the price of Gold managed to close at 3,433 and 3,401 on the 13th and 16th June, then falling back as if aghast at its temerity. Our inclination is to regard this as a display from the market which proved our trigger level can indeed be exceeded. If the story intends unfold in accordance with usual behaviour, either the 2nd or 3rd closing price forage above this trigger should be the one which provokes some “proper” upward travel. This being the case, our suspicion is either for intraday movement next above 3,447 or (if playing safe) market closure above 3,412 as being reasonable trigger levels to anticipate movement now to an initial 3,535 with our secondary, if bettered, at $3,676. To expand on this outlook, we already suspect 3,676 and above is scheduled for Gold, the only problem remaining being one of timeframes.

 

Being clear, if you want accurate timeframes, we’d need adopt the characteristics of Dr Who and until then, we’re just human and computer. Until such a point our “big picture” scenario is triggered, movement to our upper levels does not become safe from our perspective. And even then, Dr Who still gets things wrong, the recent series cancellation being a complete surprise to everyone – except anyone who’d been trying to watch the dreadful show over the reign of the most recent two Doctors.

Perhaps the next effort could be more successful, if they employed Lee Mack as the Doctor and his “Not Going Out ” wife, Sally Bretton wife, as his assistant! Such whimsical casting would doubtless retrieve an audience presumed lost to the ravages of dreadful script writing and dreadful casting, reminding the audience Dr Who is supposed to be an escape from reality rather than a lecture about a screen writers woke version of the world..

Aside from such criticism, it would be true to admit we now rarely watch UK TV shows, my wife only a devotee of Coronation St and myself enjoying “Not Going Out” if it’s on. Or the “1% Club” which has become a firm favourite with our grand-daughters. The clock is certainly ticking away for the BBC TV license as it’s noteworthy neither of the shows which are forever tied to the “Record” button on our satellite feed, are BBC productions. Somehow or other, the entire BBC output has become as “essential viewing”, as a Party Political Broadcast. Perhaps the untrustworthy presentation of BBC News has been to blame.

 

Aside from a rant about how to save Dr Who… we’re still reasonably optimistic about Golds prospects for the future. From a charty perspective, things are certainly optimistic, the metal needing below 3,320 before facing a potential melt-down to an initial 3,227 with our secondary, if broken, at a very possible bounce point at 3,147 dollars.

For now, we’re optimistic and suspect President Trump would need introduce a tariff on folk with either a West country or Welsh accent visiting the USA before we’d have concerns. We’re being a little bit cruel but notice folk blessed with such accents are perfectly capable of moderating them, when poised at the Black floor line of passport control in an American airport… Whereas Scots, believing we don’t have an accent, know to look with pity on the gun toting official in her little glass box, as she tries to educate her ears toward any perfectly clear answer which was given.

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:05:52PM BRENT 6836.4 ‘cess
11:08:20PM GOLD 3398.57 3362 3346 3328 3386 3401 3416 3431 3385 Success
11:19:36PM FTSE 8986.8
11:21:53PM STOX50 5323.9
11:25:01PM GERMANY 24247
11:27:43PM US500 6311.8 Success
11:30:38PM DOW 44393.1 44316 44223 44097 44437 44600 44718 44852 44482 Success
11:36:20PM NASDAQ 23189.1 Success
11:40:05PM JAPAN 39805

 

21/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 9013 points. Change of 0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,844,177,797 a change of 22.54%
18/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8992 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,769,021,038 a change of 5.9%
17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%

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: 532.5 Percentage Change: -0.56% Day High: 539.5 Day Low: 531.5

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LSE:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 2045 Percentage Change: + 2.25% Day High: 2050 Day Low: 2008

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce Close Mid-Price: 1000 Percentage Change: -0.50% Day High: 1011 Day Low: 993.2

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1080 Percentage Change: + 0.51% Day High: 1080 Day Low: 1074

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 0.98 Percentage Change: -2.50% Day High: 1 Day Low: 0.95

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 424.5 Percentage Change: + 1.99% Day High: 425.4 Day Low: 415.6

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 83.08 Percentage Change: + 1.22% Day High: 83.3 Day Low: 82.18

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Natwest (LSE:NWG) and trout fishing…

#Brent #Dax  My other half’s addiction to Temu remains in place, thankfully for the most instance harmless as things only go wrong when she buys electrical goods. She was delighted, when my Saturday fishing for trout was cancelled as it meant I could install two spotlights in the kitchen, along with build three shelving units. The spotlights should have been easy but goods from China can suffer terrible quality control issues. As a result, rather than wiring them into the lighting circuit, it made sense to stick a three pin plug on them. One worked, the other didn’t! After another hour or so, a decision to look inside a little white box on the lights wiring revealed one of the 220 volt wires was attached to nothing, only a shake in the wrong direction being able to create a short circuit.

While being personal guilty of being a bit cavalier with safety, this was a particularly big sin. Standard practice with electrics always includes a method to hold wires in place. This 220 to  12v transformer for the kitchen lights had absolutely no method which would stop wires puling out. Even tying a knot on the cable would serve but, as everyone knows, even a UK 3 pin plug has a plastic bar which two screws hold in place, restricting movements of wires. The “working” lamp from China equally had no restraint on the cables, this one thankfully having the wires soldered in place. Being paranoid, the wires were tied in a knot, ensuring they couldn’t be accidentally pulled from the transformer. While it is tempting to just shrug and blame it on quality control, somewhere in China is a production line making garbage which doesn’t meet basic UK electrical safety regulations, rules of best practice which are being ignored, very real fire risks allowed into the UK.

However, my real wrath should be directed at the genius in China who designed the shelf units. At first glance, the steel framed product was truly clever, the simple act of attaching together a single corned making it immediately apparent real thought had gone into the (screw and bolt free) design.  A short while later, it became clear there was only one little flaw. When it came to assembly, human beings are only blessed with two arms and ten fingers. This particular product needed  32 points of contact simultaneously slid together to create the outer frame of the book shelf’s.  Not even IKEA, in their wildest dreams, could create something as utterly frustrating. By around 1am on Sunday morning, my arc welding kit was in action, all 8 corners of the cube welded together one by one, obviously removing the need for the 4 locator pins at each corner and doubtless making a curious light show in the sky above the back garden.

Maybe China assumes everyone in the UK keeps a welding plant handy, just in case! To be fair, the steel framed book case looks great, now all the welds have been flattened by a grinder…

All things considered, I wish I’d gone fishing on Saturday. While abhorring the “sport”, as long as fishermen intend eat their catch, a palate which really enjoys trout will always justify wasting hours on an open boat, inevitably talking about the things we intend doing once we get out of the sodding wooden row boat. While detesting fishing, my oldest friend loves it which means I package away my hatred when he visits. His other “thing”, football, is a line I’ve always refused to cross, feeling the game to be utterly pointless. He once played for Manchester United (or City) and refrains from talking about football when we’re together. I also do not talk about motorcycles or skiing but beyond these taboo subjects, there is plenty to discuss. Such as quality control in China.

We’d to cancel the day fishing, because his daughter had an unexpected job and he’d to babysit her Corgi puppy. Due to him famously once taking MY dog for a walk and coming back with a different dog, he has a ban-for-life of taking dogs out. Instead, he was consigned to playing with Charlie (the Corgi) in his garden and not letting the animal out of his sight. Genuinely, he once took my black mongrel for a walk, returning from the park with a different black dog. Everything got sorted out eventually but it provided an indelible mark against his character as apparently there was a football match in the park.

 

And this brings us to Natwest, the “catch and release share” of UK banks. It was supposed to be doing quite well, the original clown bank outperforming both Lloyds and Barclays following the market crash of 2009. But since the start of July this year, the share price has been doing stupid stuff, visually the victim of a conspiracy theory attempt to slow down the rate of climb. Obviously, such a concept is daft but share price movements since the start of July certainly are a little questionable when viewed in conjunction with the Blue downtrend since 2007.

Just look at the chart below for an explanation of our incredulity. The share price broke below our trend break level of 487p (Flagged in Red) and with what looks like panic, the FTSE opted to correct the drop the next day. It felt like the market was happy for Natwest to go down, just “not that far” down and perhaps the Blue downtrend shall remain following the rules?

 

Who knows, we make up “the rules” in an effort to understand just what the market is playing at. But if we’re right, this is a probable indication the market may not wish for Natwest to back itself into oblivion but instead, quite literally slow down its rate of recovery while the lesser banks catch up! It’s a theory, or perhaps wishful thinking.

Should our outlandish theory prove correct, above 502p should now prove interesting, providing a scenario which allows for movement to an initial 530p with our secondary, if beaten, an amazing 554p which would make a lot of sense. We’ve a historical argument favouring 557 as a major point of interest for this share price and we’d cheerfully welcome 554p as achieving such a near 20 year old target level. It would at least confirm a very complex line in the sand was correct.

If Natwest intends to continue to confound us, below 484 risks creating a problem with an initial drop target at 460 with our secondary, if shattered, down at 434p and a potential strong bounce.

 

 

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Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
1:06:20AM BRENT 6857.7 6851 6773 6694 6905 6980 6993 7084 6900
8:50:48PM GOLD 3349.27
9:03:21PM FTSE 8977.6
9:05:39PM STOX50 5339.2
9:29:56PM GERMANY 24197 24167 24054 23908 24247 24322 24367 24434 24250
10:53:38PM US500 6299.3
10:56:10PM DOW 44338.1
10:59:02PM NASDAQ 23083
11:00:45PM JAPAN 39920

 

18/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8992 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,769,021,038 a change of 5.9%
17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%

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:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 337.5 Percentage Change: + 6.13% Day High: 344.5 Day Low: 320.5

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 535.5 Percentage Change: + 1.61% Day High: 537 Day Low: 526.5

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LSE:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 2000 Percentage Change: + 0.65% Day High: 2023 Day Low: 1992.5

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 4088 Percentage Change: + 0.71% Day High: 4101 Day Low: 4077

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LSE:IAG British Airways Close Mid-Price: 380.4 Percentage Change: -0.94% Day High: 386.6 Day Low: 378.8

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 178.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 179.4 Day Low: 178.4

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LSE:MRO Melrose. Close Mid-Price: 541.4 Percentage Change: + 1.01% Day High: 557.2 Day Low: 539.4

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.75 Percentage Change: + 2.94% Day High: 8.85 Day Low: 8.55

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 65.6 Percentage Change: + 0.31% Day High: 68.8 Day Low: 65

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1074.5 Percentage Change: + 0.66% Day High: 1077 Day Low: 1065.5

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 1 Percentage Change: -4.76% Day High: 1.05 Day Low: 1

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 416.2 Percentage Change: + 0.99% Day High: 417.7 Day Low: 413.2

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FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX) staging movement?

#Brent #Nasdaq  Stage Fright manifests in strange ways, not least of which being the state of the FTSE.  The UK market has comprehensively moved above its prior high of 8908 points and is now fluttering in the breeze, just awaiting an updraft to get it moving properly. My own experience with Stage Fright was rather more vivid, my name called at the high school assembly one Friday morning. I’d apparently won a National Award for something I’d no knowledge of being entered for, and was to make my way on stage to receive a trophy and a cheque! Manoeuvring past an entire school determined to trip me, almost running up the stairs to the stage, the top step caught me, a spectacular nosedive following to the headmasters feet. Unlike with Frodo or Harry Potter, neither a magic ring or invisibility cloak was available and the sound of laughter still resonates in my ears. The headmaster pulled me upright, made a show of dusting my shoulders, and asked for a few words about the award and win.

At this point, an important discovery loomed, one which probably shaped my life. Furious at being laughed at, furious about the lack of warning, and furious about being clumsy, I let rip at the laughing morons taking pleasure in someone else’s discomfort. Then a doze of acidic complements was poured over the teachers who’d placed me in this position, questioning just what they expected from a 13 year old’s speech. After successfully alienating the entire school and teaching staff, the headmaster grabbed the microphone before any commentary started on the janitorial staff and their lack of care about the carpet up to the stage. Essentially, I learned I do not suffer from stage fright and should never, ever, be allowed to speak in public when angry. Amusingly, when winning the same award a year later, before the school assembly award ceremony I was seated at the side of the stage and ready to walk on, curtsey and smile, and accept a little pat on the head. Never again did that high school trust me holding a microphone!

 

So, the question is, shall the FTSE trip on the current top step, only to run off-stage, or shall it continue onward? There’s a bigger problem looming as the index is now in the holiday season, just days away from the utter boredom of August where it risks the index bouncing from around 8900 points to 9000 points while it pretends being useful, despite everyone being at Butlins for their annual vacation month, a month which has somehow become around 6 weeks long stretching from July through to the first week of September.

Obviously we’re being very cynical but the feeling of the UK market suggests we may be about to see the start of a “Santa Rally”, one which shall commence sometime in October and last until the year end. It is probably worth remembering the FTSE has moved from a low of 7500 back in April to a recent 9000 points, a fairly remorseless 20% rise over a four month period. The situation now is of a demand the FTSE close a session above 9017 points to signal the next climbing cycle is commencing.

This is interesting, because from a near term perspective, above 8996 points should now signal the possibility of movement to an initial 9052 points with our secondary, if beaten, at 9075 points. Either ambition certainly gives the FTSE sufficient excuse to close above 9017 and thus trigger some Big Picture potentials. In this scenario, the tightest stop loss level is quite attractive at 8950 points.

Our alternate scenario allows weakness below 8950 risking triggering reversal to an initial 8914 with our secondary, if broken, at 8890 and a possible bounce.

 

In summary, the story with the FTSE is about at transparent as the current debate about Epstein from the USA media.

 

 

FUTURES

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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
9:19:23PM BRENT 6895.7 6768 6717 6654 6840 6906 6923 6974 6856 Shambles
9:21:09PM GOLD 3338.97
9:23:26PM FTSE 8983.5
9:44:43PM STOX50 5383.5 ‘cess
9:47:02PM GERMANY 24404.7 ‘cess
9:49:58PM US500 6302.6 ‘cess
10:14:19PM DOW 44512.5 ‘cess
10:17:00PM NASDAQ 23092 22867 22821 22726 22986 23109 23159 23323 23026 ‘cess
10:19:12PM JAPAN 40066

 

17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%

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:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 78.2 Percentage Change: + 2.36% Day High: 78.94 Day Low: 77.7

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.5 Percentage Change: + 1.19% Day High: 8.55 Day Low: 8.45

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 65.4 Percentage Change: + 4.47% Day High: 65.4 Day Low: 61.6

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1010 Percentage Change: + 2.19% Day High: 1009.5 Day Low: 985.4

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1067.5 Percentage Change: + 1.62% Day High: 1072 Day Low: 1060

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1333 Percentage Change: + 2.22% Day High: 1349.5 Day Low: 1315.5

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 412.1 Percentage Change: + 1.10% Day High: 412.8 Day Low: 408.1

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Wishbone Gold Plc (LSE:WSBN) about to make music?

#Gold #Stoxx50  Despite receiving a few emails about Wishbone Gold, our normal inclination would be to avoid analysis, due to shares below 1p being outrageously effected by “the spread”, along with sentiment in chatrooms providing wild and weird influences on prices. However, once upon a time there was a rock group called Wishbone Ash, never particularly famous but known for their use of the two lead guitarists harmonising with each other. The band were credited with influencing just about everyone in the music field, The Eagles to name just one.

A couple of chums and I spent our teens either building motorcycles or playing guitar and one of the guys insisted we listen to Wishbone Ash’s album Argos, his argument being we’d learn a lot from the groups style. Unfortunately, we also ended up learning how to play many of the tracks on that album, particularly one called “Blowing Free”, arguably getting to the point where our own recordings were superior to the original band. It was a lot of fun, though hard work as the driving force was one of our number intending to become a professional musician. He accomplished this ambition, only for his dream to be stifled when an offer to join an already famous band in Los Angeles was declined, due to him not wishing to leave the UK, Scotland, and his family. But he remains as an on-demand session musician in the UK and Europe but still hasn’t ever been on an aircraft.

When we got together a few years ago, for a giggle I played the opening chords for “Blowing Free”, the other pair picking up guitars and joining in seamlessly.  It was like 30+ years hadn’t passed, our wives gobsmacked at music they’d never heard previously from any of us. The often incessant practice sessions as teenagers had certainly sunk in. While Wishbone Ash had effectively stopped performing before we picked up guitars, they certainly influenced us!

What sort of experience should we anticipate with Wishbone Gold?

 

Presently trading around 0.625p, we suspect the share price needs exceed 0.785 to trigger “proper” movement as this should allow a surge in share price value to an initial 1.07p. Hopefully the company have some news polished up and ready to release which involves a story about a Goose and Golden Eggs! The 1.07 level looks fairly key, proving an impressive potential of movement to 1.45p along with (visually) some probable hesitation.

Until such time the share closes above the Blue downtrend, we are somewhat nervous for the company prospects, especially as our calculations project any drop targets prefaced with minus signs at present. However, perhaps the surge in Gold values above the 3,000 US dollar level shall prove useful as there’s very little inhibiting the metal to now reach for a future 3,715 dollars. Certainly, if the price of Gold again wanders above the 3,400 point, things are liable to become interesting fairly quickly for companies active in the field of shiny dreams.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:30:30PM BRENT 6814.7
10:36:26PM GOLD 3346.76 3319 3302 3277 3336 3377 3404 3445 3340 Success
10:40:21PM FTSE 8976 ‘cess
10:43:32PM STOX50 5342 5286 5275 5211 5335 5362 5379 5410 5330 Success
10:46:41PM GERMANY 24181
10:49:06PM US500 6258.9 ‘cess
10:51:49PM DOW 44188.5
11:02:18PM NASDAQ 22890 ‘cess
11:06:55PM JAPAN 39551 Success

 

16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%

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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