Author: T&T Staff

A fascinating little detail about the worlds largest Advertising Agency, WPP Plc, comes from their humble roots, when their full name decorated a shed in Northampton. The company was founded as Wire & Plastic Products Plc and manufactured wire shopping baskets for supermarkets. After about 10 years of irritating shoppers with terrible handle design, the company decided to grow by acquisition of other companies and at the start of 1987, when they bought Scotlands largest Advertising Agency, their path was established into the media market. They now employ over 100,000 folk internationally.

Quite a lot is being made of their tie up with Google to use AI, aiming to accelerate the use of targeted advertising, doubtless slowing down the load speed of internet pages further…

We hold a major source of concern for WPP, especially due to the class action by shareholders due to the companies announcements between February and July of this year which allegedly cost investors a share value trip from the 8 quid level down to 4 pounds. This sort of thing tends challenge investors sense of humour, especially as they allege the company made inaccurate media releases. From our coldly logical perspective, this legal action and the danger it inflicts on the company share price value is a seriously big deal. Sometimes we discuss a thing called “ultimate bottoms” and the danger they represent.

Essentially, an ultimate bottom is a level below which we cannot calculate without prefacing targets with impossible minus signs and when a share price stars flirting with such a concept, recovery can become seriously difficult, often needing a game changing announcement by the company to sharply propel themselves upward. Maybe it’s the case where WPP already have a goose laying golden eggs tucked away somewhere, news of which would bring extremely fast and positive change. But for now, the share price is both fascinating and dangerous!

 

Our “ultimate bottom” for WPP Plc calculates at 310p and the recent dip to 330p and share price movement since tends suggest the market has also realised the company is trading in a dodgy area. We’ve shown an inset on the chart of closing prices, a picture when tends suggest the market has also noticed and reacted against the trouble which would be caused, if it shrinks lower than they are currently trading at. To emphasise, below 310p risks triggering a plunge to oblivion.

It is now the case where we need the share price to exceed the immediate Blue downtrend of 370p to hopefully signal a panic recovery for a zone where the price is teetering on the edge of oblivion. Our calculations reveal above 370p should prove capable of a lift to an initial 477p with our secondary, if beaten, at 537p which would undo the consequences of the Red trend break back in July. Should this occur – and we suspect it’s likely – it would suggest WPP has made an impressive return above an uptrend, something which usually has positive long term consequences. We’re not even teasing with our level three calculations as we’d feel more comfortable analysing the path taken for recovery, once it actually occurs. From our viewpoint, providing such just now would simply be clickbait, rather than a formula born consequence.

We think WPP shall be worth watching.

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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
11:12:20PM	BRENT	6229.1	6160	6114	6024	6214	6243	6298	6318	6216
11:16:01PM	GOLD	4207.66	4090	4049	3993	4150	4215	4230	4250	4176	Success
11:18:10PM	FTSE	9416.3	9375	9339	9288	9422	9445	9463	9492	9404
11:39:07PM	STOX50	5599	5557	5525	5487	5590	5639	5664	5690	5592	‘cess
11:42:14PM	GERMANY	24156.6	24101	24018	23903	24149	24174	24212	24281	24116	Success
11:45:07PM	US500	6678.9	6610	6584	6537	6657	6687	6712	6746	6653	Shambles
11:32:49PM	DOW	46329.7	46016	45945	45694	46340	46433	46565	46748	46229	‘cess
11:35:52PM	NASDAQ	24773.8	24492	24312	24104	24682	24818	24934	25083	24737	‘cess
11:39:06PM	JAPAN	48002	47554	47477	47228	47825	48056	48214	48431	47871	Success

 

15/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9424 points. Change of -0.3%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,458,430,377 a change of -17.04%

14/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9452 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,579,322,985 a change of -18.86%

13/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9442 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,108,848,236 a change of 21.17%

10/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.86%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,691,897,297 a change of 2.92%

9/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9509 points. Change of -0.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,502,012,274 a change of 0.62%

8/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9548 points. Change of 0.69%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,461,813,888 a change of 28.82%

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

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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Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares

Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY Close Mid-Price: 662 Percentage Change: -0.90% Day High: 670.5 Day Low: 663

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LSE:CNA Centrica Close Mid-Price: 170.1 Percentage Change: -1.68% Day High: 173.85 Day Low: 170.25

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 191.8 Percentage Change: + 0.42% Day High: 195 Day Low: 191

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2616 Percentage Change: + 0.46% Day High: 2642 Day Low: 2564

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 5.41 Percentage Change: -8.92% Day High: 6 Day Low: 5.41

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LSE:SRP Serco. Close Mid-Price: 241.6 Percentage Change: + 0.17% Day High: 242.8 Day Low: 240

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LSE:TRN The Trainline Close Mid-Price: 259.4 Percentage Change: -1.07% Day High: 264.4 Day Low: 255

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*** End of “Updated Today” comments on shares.

#GOLD #Stoxx50 It looks like our commentary about Mitie back in April of this year has proven correct. With the company announcing they were buying back some of their issued shares, the implication is obviously of their petty cash box brimming over. Our comment; “The company, amongst many other things hold the accolade of being the largest provider of immigration centres in the UK, and we can speculate the market assume this contract as being a growth area due to the government seemingly throwing money at the issue” certainly appears prescient, the share price achieving our target levels earlier this year and is now deserving a new analysis, not least due to a happy 14.1% UP day.

There are a couple of important details about the flamboyant gain.

The share price exceeded and closed above the Blue downtrend since 2017. This “may” prove important but importantly, it neither closed higher than the movements back in June this year, nor did intraday movements exceed the highs of June. While we may be accused of being fussy in our demands for clear signals, we’re certainly a little nervous as to the share prices immediate ambitions as we really need it above 160p before we shall dare setting off a pound shop party popper.

However, from a Big Picture perspective, considerable hope is now justified, share price closure next above 160p calculating as capable of triggering movement to 206p next with our secondary, if bettered, an impressive but logical looking future 266p. Overall, should the price ever close above 200p, we shall view a far distant 367 as being a target price exerting an influence.

 

Should things intend go wrong, the share price needs slither below 135p to cause trouble, risking provoking travel downhill to an initial 113p and hopefully a bounce. In the event such a level breaks, our longer term secondary calculates at 67p.

But on the bright side, the coming Grand Prix from Austin, TX, is generally quite entertaining. Why don’t they open the event with an Austin A40 with bets on whether the horrible little British car could complete a single lap of the circuit without breaking down. Being able to learn to drive in “the compound” of my family motor trade business, the 1970’s meant being spoiled for choice of the range of derelicts which ran. Some had more than one gear, some had working breaks, and for this 7 year old, it was nirvana. But deciding a Ford Anglia (with no brakes) was better to drive than an Austin A40 (where everything worked ) spoke volumes about Austin, even though the Ford Anglia was also to become the first car I wrote off, running into the heavy compound gates which promptly fell backwards onto the car. Needless to say, my exploits with the junk cars were severely curtailed thereafter, unless someone was pretending to supervise my efforts at teaching myself to drive. Many years later, a friend bought an Austin A40 with the intention of restoring it. He was horrified, perhaps insulted, by my utter distaste for the awful vehicle. He eventually sold it, virtually untouched, as a “project” car.

 

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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
10:50:38PM	BRENT	6212.6
10:56:48PM	GOLD	4141.74	4090	4069	4032	4137	4155	4172	4199	4125	Success
11:02:07PM	FTSE	9468.8
11:04:56PM	STOX50	5600	5542	5515	5484	5574	5608	5639	5690	5570	Success
11:08:19PM	GERMANY	24307.8									‘cess
11:13:06PM	US500	6653.2									Success
11:15:41PM	DOW	46300.7									Success
11:20:31PM	NASDAQ	24591.1									Success
11:24:00PM	JAPAN	46962

 

14/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9452 points. Change of 0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,579,322,985 a change of -18.86%

13/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9442 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,108,848,236 a change of 21.17%

10/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.86%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,691,897,297 a change of 2.92%

9/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9509 points. Change of -0.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,502,012,274 a change of 0.62%

8/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9548 points. Change of 0.69%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,461,813,888 a change of 28.82%

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

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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Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares

Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AFC AFC Energy** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:SPT Spirent Comms** **

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LSE:AFC AFC Energy Close Mid-Price: 8.91 Percentage Change: -1.55% Day High: 9.24 Day Low: 8.77

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LSE:BP. BP PLC Close Mid-Price: 416.35 Percentage Change: -1.34% Day High: 418.15 Day Low: 410.5

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2604 Percentage Change: + 0.46% Day High: 2626 Day Low: 2524

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 5.94 Percentage Change: -8.47% Day High: 6.5 Day Low: 5.84

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LSE:SPT Spirent Comms. Close Mid-Price: 198.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 199 Day Low: 198.6

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*** End of “Updated Today” comments on shares.

In the run up to a UK budget, the media like spraying potential media all over their front pages as they “test market” potential public responses to any forthcoming attempts from the UK Government to further damage our country. It’s fairly funny, noting most economic ‘analysis’ are written by political correspondents, folk in receipt of a leak from “Rachel in Accounts” as she tests reaction to her next stupid scheme to raise money to be wasted by the government.  One which is causing smiles is the threat of inflicting Road Tax on Classic Cars, vehicles more than 40 years old which rarely do more than a 1,000 miles a year, driving to and from Classic Car social events when they can all bore each other silly by talking about their vehicles.

A personal horror story became reality, attending a Classic Car Hill Climb event, something which looked like a lot of fun and my own absurd TVR 2.9 2+2 allowing me to take part. The lady with me had already ordered a Morgan and was delighted at the collection of seemingly magnetic Morgans, all the cliche green painted cars drawn together in their own little puddle of terribleness. Like a moth to a flame, she vanished to the Morgan gathering, returning after around 30 minutes and quite apologetic. My sarcasm about Morgan owners had turned out to be reality, she being literally shocked at how strong their views were on the type of polish was best used on a Morgan, the correct type of wheel cleaner to use, and whether Scottish Blend tea leaves were actually superior to foul tasting products from Tetley or whoever. (They are, Scottish water is pure)  She literally cancelled her order for a Morgan, bought a ‘sort of’ sporty Mazda 323 and promptly wrote it off. Her replacement 323 was also written off while parked. And her third 323 was written off but the story of what happened has never been revealed. But few folk could boast of writing off three Mazda 323’s in just 10 months.

She bought a proper Landrover short wheel base and 35 years later, still drives it, preferring to be thought of as an eccentric psychiatrist rather than actually paranoid about her choice of vehicle. But it allowed her the reason to buy a farmhouse in Surrey, utterly justifying her horrible vehicle to commute to her hospital office. Personally, having owned a Landrover SWD Air Drop (designed to be tossed out the back of a Hercules plane or from a Helicopter), when I decided to sell the thing, the Landrover Owners Club got in touch, asked permission to reprint the sarcastic and truthful advert for a vehicle I utterly despised. A Boeing 747 had a tighter turning circle and probably better fuel consumption. And a Citroen 2CV would win a drag race. But to help with stopping smoking, the fact 12 gallons of petrol were stored under the drivers seat, sloshing below a leaky fuel cap, gave some encouragement.

While skiing in France, bumped into a bloke and we got talking about my long gone Landrover. The secret was to replace the Front and Rear differentials with those from a Series 1 Range Rover, turning the awful machine into something seriously useful. Apparently, this was the first thing the military did, when they got hold of one! And sometimes, the V8 Range Rover engine also ended up under the bonnet. But no one would admit the core Air Drop machine was hideous to own, to drive, to park. But it did look great.

 

Taylor Wimpey, similar to our Landrover, has been expressed with a screamed whisper, similar to someone from our biased BBC complementing Mr Trump on his success with Gaza. But if we opt to decide Freedom of Speech is possible, we mentioned LSE:TW. threatened reversal to 90p. However, with a surprisingly silent curse words, the lowest Taylor Wimpey achieved was just 91.5p, slightly above our drop target and perhaps whispering the share price includes some hidden strength, never a bad thing. Perhaps we should now be looking for movements of strength against LSE:TW.. (They are one of the few FTSE 100 shares which suffer a full stop after the two character epic, thus giving the pretence of a 3rd character to fool cheap software which was designed to only accept 3 digit FTSE company codes. It has been a never ending surprise the original coders were not approached to ask them to widen the share code parameters as, in Pascal, it would only require EPIC>S3 to change to EPIC>S1. But instead, we are stuck with a series of daft full stops after 2 digit epic codes. Even New York makes NYSE:V look deserved, the code for VISA. Of course, whether they release a six digit  NYSE:BIGYIN for Trump Media is yet to be seen…

Should Taylor Wimpey intend move with some integrity, above just 104p should trigger near term recovery to an initial 108 with our secondary, if beaten, at an eventual 112p. Despite neither target level being impressive, this sort of movement would launch the builder into quite strong territory, giving a strong Big Picture perspective of a future 130p, maybe even a longer term 152p. Visually it all makes perfect sense for Taylore Wimpey, perhaps as much as my old friend writing off 3 Mazda 323’s. (Mazda refused to sell the model to her)

If things intend go pear shaped, below 99p risks triggering reversal to an initial 92 with our secondary, if broken, at 86p.

Thankfully there may be many psychiatrists called Alice reading this, thus having no chance of being identified. <grin and everyone knows her Mum killed the #3 Mazda in an Asda car park. It was even reported in the local paper,.under a “Stranger Than Fiction” headline!>

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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
10:43:48PM	BRENT	6322	6199	6000	5360	6650	6382	6460	6546	6312
10:48:11PM	GOLD	4109.81	4023	3991	3949	4062	4118	4136	4165	4101
10:56:03PM	FTSE	9442.9	9409	9396	9375	9448	9458	9493	9536	9425
10:58:26PM	STOX50	5571	5538	5528	5507	5568	5590	5614	5653	5538	Success
11:01:36PM	GERMANY	24417.4	24252	24084	23854	24404	24450	24527	24652	24344
11:33:47PM	US500	6651.2	6615	6601	6578	6659	6668	6677	6736	6628	Success
11:35:54PM	DOW	46110	45782	45674	45513	46050	46154	46310	46474	45958
11:38:26PM	NASDAQ	24740	24547	24451	24341	24701	24781	24888	25017	24684	Shambles
11:40:21PM	JAPAN	47015	46283	46059	45731	46699	47075	47441	48211	46670

 

13/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9442 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,108,848,236 a change of 21.17%

10/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.86%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,691,897,297 a change of 2.92%

9/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9509 points. Change of -0.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,502,012,274 a change of 0.62%

8/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9548 points. Change of 0.69%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,461,813,888 a change of 28.82%

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

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.

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.

If you want to ask a question about something Market Related intraday, don’t hesitate to email private.client@trendsandtargets.com. If something has gone volatile and a quick answer is needed, we’ve probably already run the numbers on it. As you’ll appreciate, we try and avoid spamming people needlessly.

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One of the things about living in an area where people go to die (aka retirement central) can be utterly ridiculous projects. One of the West Coasts best top secret salmon rivers is on our dog walking route and when the Victorian cast iron fisherman’s bridge  managed to be washed away in floods a couple of years ago, the angling community were not going to be denied the chance of reaching the other side of the often ankle deep river. And so, they decided to KNIT a new bridge out of rope as shown below. To be fair, it is a serious masterpiece, only lacking Indiana Jones and a bunch of Nazi’s fighting each other. And it has given pause to consider our current hobby of making wines, while not as mad as knitting a bridge, it’s perhaps an indicator of the soporific lifestyle here in Argyll.

One funny thing about this Argyll river. In 15 years of walking the banks with the dogs almost daily, I’ve not once come across someone who’s actually caught a fish. However, in a remarkably similar period, the UK’s retail banks look like doing something useful, perhaps giving another meaning to the term “walking the banks!”

 

We’ve long been cynical about the banking sector but for now, some very real hope is almost available. Last time we reviewed Lloyds, we gave 551p as an initial target, an ambition achieved on three occasions in the last few sessions. However, there is a problem as the share price failed to CLOSE a session at or above 551p, the best achieved at the end of a day being 550.2p last Wednesday. Despite during the day reaching a high of 553.6p, it conspicuously failed to close above 551p which is a bit of a concern, hinting the market may have decided “now” is not the time for some rabid acceleration. Our Gold Standard for movement remains a price actually closing a trading session above one of our trading targets. ‘Mixed feelings’  best describes our thoughts at present, this share price achieving our initial target yet, from our perspective, still failing to impress us. About the best we dare suggest in the implication if the share price exceeds the most recent high of 553.6p, it should go up to an initial useless  target of 556.7p. Such an ambition would exceed a downtrend since 2007, giving substantial hope things should be changing gear.

We now can concede our secondary target above 556.7p has a secondary target of 575p. From our perspective, this would propel the share price into a zone we call “The Big Picture”, where some real movement becomes very possible. From a Big Picture perspective, share price closure above 575p now calculates with an ambition of a future 625 with our secondary, if bettered, working out at a long term secondary of 784p.

This Big Picture secondary ambition is a seriously Big Deal, taking the share price above the market high just before the Financial Crash of 2009, a share price value of 718p. With closure above such a point, the square mile in London shall be flooded with drunken idiots setting off party poppers and sipping cheap champagne, finally believing the UK is back of track to become the financial capital of the world. Our suspicion is those folk shall prove as successful as the multitudes of folk wearing waders, standing in the middle of our local river and hoping for the impossible.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
10:41:25PM	BRENT	6204	6199	5991	5344	6655	6655	6792	6989	6380
10:43:41PM	GOLD	4017.23
10:47:55PM	FTSE	9379.5
10:49:40PM	STOX50	5501.7
10:52:56PM	GERMANY	24173.4
10:56:16PM	US500	6511.8	6499	6488	6396	6590	6592	6623	6664	6547
11:55:47PM	DOW	45253.7
11:57:48PM	NASDAQ	24533.9
11:48:10PM	JAPAN	46322

 

10/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.86%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,691,897,297 a change of 2.92%

9/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9509 points. Change of -0.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,502,012,274 a change of 0.62%

8/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9548 points. Change of 0.69%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,461,813,888 a change of 28.82%

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.

Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION

Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.

UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1105.5 Percentage Change: + 0.64% Day High: 1105.5 Day Low: 1098.5

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LSE:TRN The Trainline Close Mid-Price: 261.4 Percentage Change: -4.18% Day High: 273.4 Day Low: 260.6

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Our FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX) Trading around 9508 at time of writing.

When we’re getting cheesed off about how poorly many shares on the UK stock market are performing, habitually we add to our depression by running a comparison with what’s going on elsewhere, especially in countries where the government doesn’t regard arresting people for Twitter or Facebook comments as the most important facet of their job. A recent statistic revealed 30 folk are being arrested a day for what are essentially imaginary crimes,  a level of sustained crackdown which placed the campaign against democracy protestors in Hong Kong into the shade.

Successive governments in the UK continue to avoid doing anything useful, often more intent on feeding politicians ego rather than risk doing anything positive for the country and business. The recent ridiculous “photo op” investment for a maritime facility to import cheap Chinese electric vehicles in the north of England provides a perfect example of how hard UK politicians work to damage the country, an initiative which will harm the residual UK vehicle industry, along with reducing imports from Europe. After all, why buy VW or whatever, if there’s a Chinese alternative available at 1/2 the price.

 

The charts below tell a story suitable for Halloween. Since 2010, the value of the UK stock market has increased by almost double. The FTSE needs be just below 12000 points to make the rise a solid 2x fold gain.

However, the US S&P500 chart below is a bit more interesting, showing a 5x fold increase for exactly the same period. And our local neighbour, Germany, is also showing a near 5x fold increase…

These figures are nothing to do with Brexit, our frustration and irritation with the UK dating back to the market crash of 2009, along with the realisation UK politicians didn’t know what to do about the mess our country was in. While every other country worked hard to leave the financial crisis behind, British governments revelled in the fact they’d something else to blame, giving plenty of reasons for inactivity.  It’s still the case the financial crash of 2009 gets trotted out, when a politician is trying to assign blame for their incompetence and inaction. But they are proud 30 folk are being arrested daily for “wrong think” on social media, making the UK a world leader in the field..

 

As for our FTSE for FRIDAY, there are many suggestions the UK market should be heading upward. There has been a certain lethargy of movements this week, so hoping for a positive day on Friday may be an error but given recent world news of movement in the Middle East and the Nobel Committee due to announce who deserves this years Peace Price, perhaps things may get exciting for the market. We suspect Mr Trump shall not be lauded as his efforts have been too late for consideration this year.

If things intend go wrong for the FTSE, it’s now the case where weakness below 9501 points risks promoting reversals down to an initial 9471 points with our “longer term” secondary, if broken, at 9436 points and hopefully a bounce point, given the underlying pressure remains upward. If this scenario triggers, the tightest stop is at 9537 points.

Should things intend turn positive, the UK index needs wander above 9566 points to promote the idea of gains to an initial 9629 points with our secondary, if beaten, an unlikely (in the same day) 9650 points. Our expectation is for a day of mild reversals while the FTSE embraces a flat spell prior to the BoE announcing a surprise Interest Rate reduction on November 6th.

 

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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
10:37:22PM	BRENT	6509	6486	6440		6531	6644	6678		6562	Success
10:40:10PM	GOLD	3976.61	3944	3920		3990	4030	4062		3999	Success
10:43:24PM	FTSE	9493.2	9483	9447		9512	9535	9546		9505
10:46:28PM	STOX50	5621.5	5613	5608		5638	5638	5646		5620	Shambles
10:52:49PM	GERMANY	24612	24570	24538		24630	24673	24733		24595	‘cess
11:11:12PM	US500	6734.7	6716	6705		6737	6762	6779		6744
11:14:40PM	DOW	46383.2	46264	46006		46478	46684	46805		46488	‘cess
11:18:00PM	NASDAQ	25105.8	25028	24974		25080	25140	25184		25026
11:21:20PM	JAPAN	48525	48420	48292		48632	48726	48840		48550	‘cess

 

9/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9509 points. Change of -0.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,502,012,274 a change of 0.62%

8/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9548 points. Change of 0.69%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,461,813,888 a change of 28.82%

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.

Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION

Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.

UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.

We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…

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LSE:CAR Carclo. Close Mid-Price: 69.8 Percentage Change: + 5.76% Day High: 69.2 Day Low: 66

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2394 Percentage Change: + 1.10% Day High: 2438 Day Low: 2342

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 357.15 Percentage Change: + 0.39% Day High: 363 Day Low: 354.3

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 412.8 Percentage Change: + 3.20% Day High: 416 Day Low: 399.9

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LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group Close Mid-Price: 9174 Percentage Change: -0.28% Day High: 9292 Day Low: 9118

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LSE:SRP Serco Close Mid-Price: 238 Percentage Change: -0.42% Day High: 241.6 Day Low: 236.8

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered Close Mid-Price: 1455 Percentage Change: -1.66% Day High: 1514.5 Day Low: 1459.5

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#Stoxx #Dax Airline pilots must be viewing their exit strategies quite closely, their jobs increasingly looking like they are going to be on the line sometime within living memory. The once prestigious position of “Pilot” should become a fairly early casualty of the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), once the penny drops with a company like Ryanair or Spirit when they appreciate they can plug in a computer in their head office. That computer could be running an AI and in contact with every single aircraft of the fleet, via the StarLink digital satellite hook-up. Due to a pilots job now being checklist based, along with a regime of “If X, then do Y” in the cockpit, an AI could manage an entire fleet quite easily, especially if it were proved an AI could outfly that famous bloke who landed a jet on the Hudson River in New York, due to both engines eating a flock of birds.

While this sounds like a whimsical joke, it can be utterly certain airline companies are actively exploring such a prospect, perhaps relegating any existing pilot to the job of serving coffee and snacks during prolonged periods when supervisory duties in the cockpit were not required. Surely in such a scenario, the pilots would not be on stewardesses wage levels but of course, Ryanair would ensure they only got a salary increase for the minutes and seconds while they attended a cockpit emergency. It would work wonders for profitability, removing the need for two pilots on long haul flights, and allowing cabin crew numbers to be reduced.

Though we’re traditionally anti-flying, the idea of an AI controlling an aircraft isn’t terrifying, due to the vast majority of (thankfully very few) incidents being listed as either Pilot Error or a Boeing 737Max… This sort of thought process also gives some sort of clue as to possible effects as AI creeps into society with a greater force than JCB diggers utterly changing the need for teams of men digging roads. Or cars displacing horses, the internet removing the need for newspapers or TV, or mobile phones making telephones utterly redundant! Despite being extremely cynical at what the media refer to as AI, we’d have to admit the concept is solidly in our department due to our failed attempts to map the entire world stock market back in 2009 and onward. Once we figured out why our model didn’t work, it became easy to decide not to pursue the notion further, not due to a fear of success but rather, a fear of the amount of work required. The easy part was mapping each and every share as a standalone entity to understand how the markets treated them. Things got a little harder with the next bit, integrating these forces into our complex sets of rules, finally being left with a single bit of software which nowadays would be called an AI, its entire job being to map and project a future for a single share. We created an outrageous situation, where we theoretically needed a “Desktop” which had individual icons for every single share trades, along with commodities, or index’. Rather than just a few of us, we’d be waist deep in grunt programmers to make sense of everything.

Instead, we adopted an easy route out, mapping a relatively small number of items, glancing at how prices behaved relative to a very basic trend line, and paying attention to ones which became interesting. It sounds boring but the reality proved quite exciting and fun, especially as few things are more fun than watching a series of targets being met exactly. This proves the eyeball has chosen the correct trend to tell our software what needs mapped against.

However…

With news the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of England are warning the markets risk “abrupt” Stock Market corrections due to the AI boom, we automatically softened our cynical thoughts against AI. This is due to neither the IMF nor the BoE NEVER managing to cover themselves in glory by being right. Instead, they’ve opted to grab headlines with often ridiculous clickbait announcements, seemingly designed to prove they still exist and are important. We suspect absolutely no-one at the BoE has considered the single example of Airline Pilots given above. The “victims” of AI are liable to come from fields few folk consider. But we’d suggest anyone who works in HR should urgently do something to improve their CV.

Our own thinking is AI will always be a little simplistic until such a time, when software driven “thinking” can do something scary and say, “But, what if?”.

 

Returning to airlines and British Airways (the Sunday name for LSE:IAG) are actually looking like they face some positive price movements, despite the company failing to announce a reduction in their stable of 4,000 pilots, each presumably paid up to 1/2 million dollars per annum. Not a single IAG pilot could disagree with such a statement!

 

Currently, by closing Wednesday at 400p, IAG achieved an official “higher high”, therefore allowing a positive viewpoint for the fairly near term future.

At present, above 405p should trigger movement to an initial 427p with our secondary, if bettered, calculating at an eventual 502p and some hesitation.

 

Should things intend go wrong for International Consolidated Airlines (please, change the name, doubt anyone likes writing it), below 385 risks triggering reversal down to an initial  330 and a very possible bounce. Our secondary, if broken, works out at an unlikely 284p.

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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
11:24:26PM	BRENT	6596.9									‘cess
11:27:38PM	GOLD	4013.16									Success
11:42:35PM	FTSE	9556.3									Success
11:47:09PM	STOX50	5655.6	5624	5617	5604	5651	5657	5667	5690	5624	Shambles
11:27:00PM	GERMANY	24645.5	24310	24208	24060	24431	24649	24673	24810	24561	Success
11:33:53PM	US500	6761									‘cess
11:36:26PM	DOW	46643.2
11:40:40PM	NASDAQ	25169.1									‘cess
11:44:21PM	JAPAN	48123

 

8/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9548 points. Change of 0.69%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,461,813,888 a change of 28.82%

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

30/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9350 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,823,355,297 a change of 26.57%

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:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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LSE:AZN Astrazeneca. Close Mid-Price: 12806 Percentage Change: + 0.20% Day High: 12972 Day Low: 12776

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 654.5 Percentage Change: + 0.93% Day High: 656.5 Day Low: 648

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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 432.25 Percentage Change: + 0.15% Day High: 436.25 Day Low: 430.3

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra Close Mid-Price: 355.75 Percentage Change: -0.24% Day High: 361.05 Day Low: 353.05

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 6.59 Percentage Change: -3.94% Day High: 6.86 Day Low: 6.6

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 86.38 Percentage Change: + 3.70% Day High: 86.62 Day Low: 84.26

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1479.5 Percentage Change: + 2.49% Day High: 1487.5 Day Low: 1449.5

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LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital Close Mid-Price: 11.25 Percentage Change: -2.17% Day High: 11.5 Day Low: 11.25

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#Gold #FTSE This is a vanilla article, given we’ve run out of printable BP anecdotes and need go straight to the numbers! As many folk will know, when you’ve worked with a major corporate, you eventually reach a point at which the penny drops, along with the realisation the organisation doesn’t give a sod about you. As a result, it’s easy to become spiteful until there is an enlightened moment, when the discovery you can use the monster to eat itself becomes the easiest way to survive and flourish. There’s a particular story we’d love to tell in detail, how we’d re-route some fuel deliveries once a week, the delivery folk not caring as the bill was paid by the time a tanker left the refinery. Paperwork issues were avoided by the simple expedient of having cheeseburgers & coffee ready for the drivers who loved delivering to the busy petrol station with a perfect drop-off point at 2am. The retail arm never asked how we’d managed to ensure two outlets enjoyed equal sales every month, never once considering their own policy of wanting to close down sites which dropped below a particular threshold. Burgers and bacon rolls easily defeated BP corporate.

Since the start of July, any assumption BP’s share price has been tracking the price of Crude Oil would be quite erroneous. Brent Crude has been dripping downhill, while BP Plc has been slogging uphill, a genuine break for BP share price norms, perhaps even a strong indicator for happier days ahead. From our perspective, things kicked off just before the end of June this year, when their share price managed to close slightly above the level of a previous major trend break circled on the chart below.

We always regard this sort of signal as a pretty big deal, the next major firework being fully ignited when a share price regains this previous trend. This happened at the start of July and now, we’re fairly interested in what’s coming next, especially as BP has also now broken through the immediate Blue downtrend since April of last year…

Currently, above just 437p risks becoming interesting, theoretically triggering gains to an initial 469p with our secondary target, if bettered, at a reasonable looking 541p and almost certain hesitation.

Should things decide to go BP shaped, the price needs dwindle below Blue, presently 419p, to risk triggering reversals down to an initial 365 with our secondary, if broken, at an eventual bottom of a frightening 279p.

 

For now, it appears BP Plc share price intends further gains.

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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
11:03:29PM	BRENT	6564.4
11:05:25PM	GOLD	3985.41	3940	3921	3898	3962	3988	3994	4012	3960
11:08:04PM	FTSE	9489.2	9459	9439	9416	9479	9507	9521	9556	9483
11:10:43PM	STOX50	5606.9
11:13:19PM	GERMANY	24382
11:16:56PM	US500	6720.7									Success
11:21:27PM	DOW	46626.6
11:36:09PM	NASDAQ	24865.6									Shambles
11:41:04PM	JAPAN	47911

 

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

30/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9350 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,823,355,297 a change of 26.57%

29/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9299 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,390,872,598 a change of -5.48%

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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Updated charts published on : Anglo American, BALFOUR BEATTY, B & M, Centrica, Glencore Xstra, IQE, SAGA Plc, The Trainline, Zoo Digital,

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LSE:AAL Anglo American Close Mid-Price: 2809 Percentage Change: -0.39% Day High: 2843 Day Low: 2791

All Anglo American needs are mid-price trades ABOVE 2843 to improve accel ……..

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 648.5 Percentage Change: + 0.23% Day High: 654.5 Day Low: 646.5

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LSE:BME B & M Close Mid-Price: 236.2 Percentage Change: -7.81% Day High: 245.2 Day Low: 200.2

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LSE:CNA Centrica Close Mid-Price: 170.05 Percentage Change: -0.29% Day High: 173.3 Day Low: 170.3

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 356.6 Percentage Change: + 0.82% Day High: 358.7 Day Low: 351.85

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 6.86 Percentage Change: -4.32% Day High: 7.17 Day Low: 6.8

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 280 Percentage Change: + 2.75% Day High: 284 Day Low: 268

It is still the case where above 299 should bring a visit to an initial 31 ……..

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LSE:TRN The Trainline Close Mid-Price: 275.2 Percentage Change: -0.43% Day High: 279.8 Day Low: 275.6

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LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital Close Mid-Price: 11.5 Percentage Change: -6.12% Day High: 12.25 Day Low: 11.5

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