Author: T&T Staff

#BrentCrude #Nasdaq It’s a little fascinating how International Workplace Group continue to reframe their position, facilitating to a market which must feel like herding cats. When the shambles of the Covid19 era hit, they were certainly placed to ensure business’s kept operating, despite the constraints from governments, always keen to restrain trade internationally. IWG celebrated the opportunity by declaring bankruptcy across 97 different entities. But IWG’s experience and reach certainly created a situation where folk could “talk” internationally with the most up to date methods of conferencing, provided seamlessly. But a newer challenge has emerged, one framed by harsh economics.

The price of fuel is apparently seriously influenced decisions on “work from home” as the cost of commuting leapt, once supply constraints affected the price of oil, substantially increasing the daily cost of commuting from the mess of Bedford to London or less likely, travelling from Esher to London. It exhausts our experience, discussing beyond these areas. But memories of Esher tend imply folk from the hamlet rarely trouble themselves by visiting the city. A chum bought a business and land in Kingston Upon Thames, his single visit to the city using his boat, which really doesn’t count as commuting. But it has become clear many folk are avoiding the traumatic cost of fuel currently and we question why the UK Government has not followed many other countries by making an effort to lower the burden. When paying £1.86 per litre, the public are exposed to VAT of 37p and DUTY around 90p, it remaining the case the government still accounts for the bulk of the cost of fuel.

But once again, commercial property shall face the reality of empty offices, again creating demand for solutions for meetings and discussions from multiple remote locations. The ongoing heavy boulder, rolling over commercial property leases must be worth some long term reflection.  After all, we shall inevitably face the day when we attend meetings wearing 3d headsets, everyone with perfect bodies and the location being a pretty outdoor cafe in Brussels… All kidding aside, this would certainly beat a meeting anywhere on Canary Wharf, the second portal of hell.

We’ve been taking a hard look at IWG share price, especially due to their failure to reach our 252p target (slightly) with a rise failing at 250p. From our perspective, this was a big deal as we couldn’t justify calibration for the error but instead, a suspicion of weakness in the share. Should this indeed be the case, below 174 presently suggests the risk of weakness to an initial 162p with our secondary, if broken, calculating at an eventual 132p which should provide a bounce point.

However, if IWG intends catch a break, above just 202p should next prove important, allowing for movement to an initial 222p with our secondary, if bettered, at a pretty confident sounding 262p which dumps the share price in a land, where a decent future should become logical. Of course, as we’ve just over a week from the Miami Grand Prix circus commencing, perhaps our optimism is being inflated faster than Red Bulls attempts of cheating aerodynamic regulations.

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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
9:11:07PM	BRENT	9639.1	8990	8731	8414	9130	9682	9714	10192	9215
10:28:44PM	GOLD	4692.93									‘cess
10:32:16PM	FTSE	10464									Success
10:49:41PM	STOX50	5913.3									Success
10:52:40PM	GERMANY	24159.9									‘cess
10:54:41PM	US500	7086.2									Shambles
11:01:45PM	DOW	49286.6									‘cess
11:04:47PM	NASDAQ	26586.7	26400	26356	26228	26576	26740	26820	26960	26622	Shambles

 

21/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10498 points. Change of -1.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,939,310,505 a change of -19.68%

20/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of -0.54%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,639,261,853 a change of -7.81%

17/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10667 points. Change of 0.74%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,370,886,318 a change of 52.53%

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

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

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

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

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

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

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LSE:AVCT Avacta. Close Mid-Price: 79.5 Percentage Change: + 3.25% Day High: 81 Day Low: 77

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY Close Mid-Price: 826.5 Percentage Change: -0.60% Day High: 839 Day Low: 825

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LSE:IGG IG Group Close Mid-Price: 1534.5 Percentage Change: -0.10% Day High: 1544 Day Low: 1528

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc. Close Mid-Price: 218.1 Percentage Change: + 4.76% Day High: 222 Day Low: 206.8

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 42.3 Percentage Change: + 7.09% Day High: 42.3 Day Low: 39

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#Gold #Nasdaq Gossiping to one of the folk on my usual dog walk circuit, I related the story of becoming utterly fed up with Scotlands weather. Instead of becoming defensive, she agreed and pointed out we’ve “enjoyed” around 7 months of rain here in Argyll. Obviously, it usually does not rain all day, only when you need to step outside to do something. It’s one thing being caught in a downpour when walking the animals, quite another when you look out the window and realise squeezing into a wet suit would make some sense. And of course, Golden Retrievers will usually refuse to go out in the rain, despite their propensity to get wet at every other opportunity. One of my favourite “countryside” jokes is to point out it always rains the day after the grass has been cut. Thus, when using my newly serviced Strimmer to butcher the lawn edges, it was not a surprise to feel rain on my face when the job was finished.

It’s possible Scotland was described quite nicely with that dreadful pop dirge; “Love is all Around”, number one in the mid-1990’s chart for 4 painful months. The Scottish band name was imaginative; “Wet Wet Wet“. It transpires the only way to get revenge on our Argyll climate is to write about it, honestly and often. If only the Scottish government would do more to “sell our mountains”, not for tourism but to get the sodding things moved somewhere else 

Since August 2025, Convatec share price has behaved as if it were trapped in Scottish frame of mind, realistically doing very little other than bob up and down. An email asked that we update our thoughts on the subject and it’s slightly interesting to note this years price shuffles have revealed the market appears to be paying attention to Red on the chart. On April 8th, the share price was manipulated (“gapped”) above this Red trend, sending a neat little message some share price recovery should be expected.

This has created a fairly confident calculation share price movement next above 245p should trigger price movement to an initial 254p with our secondary, if bettered, at a longer term 284p. This longer term secondary is visually problematic, suggesting some hesitation while the share price matched the high of May 2025 and a bunch of folk respond by creating selling pressure, while they delight in retrieving their funds from a year long vacation. However, we should acknowledge share price closure above 284p should reveal a long term 322p exhibiting itself as an attractive ambition.

Convatec share price needs below 224p to ring alarm bells, providing the threat of reversal to an initial 200p with our secondary, if broken, at 180p and hopefully a bounce.

But for now, in direct contradiction to our thoughts on Scotland’s weather, we’re pretty optimistic on this share price.

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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
11:31:55PM	BRENT	8945.1
11:34:21PM	GOLD	4823.92	4737	4691	4625	4794	4892	5052	5369	4852
11:46:04PM	FTSE	10618.8
10:53:57PM	STOX50	5996.5
10:57:43PM	GERMANY	24502.3
11:00:23PM	US500	7118.9
11:25:02PM	DOW	49515.6
11:37:12PM	NASDAQ	26630.9	26413	26385	26290	26551	26670	26746	26868	26542
11:43:24PM	JAPAN	59275

 

20/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of -0.54%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,639,261,853 a change of -7.81%

17/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10667 points. Change of 0.74%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,370,886,318 a change of 52.53%

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%

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:IGG IG Group** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1536 Percentage Change: + 1.05% Day High: 1536 Day Low: 1515.5

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LSE:ITM ITM Power Close Mid-Price: 126.7 Percentage Change: -3.65% Day High: 145 Day Low: 123.1

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2896 Percentage Change: + 0.70% Day High: 3006 Day Low: 2834

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 15.5 Percentage Change: + 1.64% Day High: 16.55 Day Low: 15.5

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#Brent #Germany Without any surprise, the FTSE managed waste everyone’s time on Friday, frittering around while rain fell here in Argyll in record quantities, while other world markets were experiencing a 2% day of gains.. Again. Cutting a long story short, instead of vanishing down a YouTube rabbithole on Friday afternoon, looking at properties in Norfolk consumed a large part of the day. And a big question arose! How the hell can people in England afford to buy houses? The entire property game still looks like a massive pyramid scheme, one which is surely going to bite back harder than the mortgage related banking shambles of 2009. An industry which can only survive if prices continuing going up isn’t an industry but instead, a collective delusion. My wife acidly points out I shall forget my negative weather comments as we’re about to experience Argyll’s two “safe” summer months, May and June.

The FTSE’s moribund behaviour is something we hope shall prove to be a fairly short term affliction, hopefully cured once navigation resumes in the Straits of Hormuz. We glanced at shipping movements tonight, noting a Saudi cruise ship was cheerfully carrying its passengers through the troubled zone, presumably without hindrance on what appears to be a regular three day “jolly” from Jeddah. Equally, plenty of aircraft were flying over Israel though airspace above Iran remained as absent as the UK Prime Ministers apparent ethical standards.

However, there remains optimism for some decent FTSE acceleration, such an event obviously holding a high probability of a further kick up Barclays memory from 2009,  To be fair, the share price is already cruising in an area where our rule of thumb deems a distant 737p as exerting a future influence, though goodness knows how long it would take. Unfortunately, the share price only needs close below 432p for us to glare at the tea leaves and revisit the numbers for the future.

At present, above 456p is supposed to trigger gains in the direction of an initial 468p with our secondary, if bettered, at 506p and the possibility of the share price entering the land of Big Picture miracles. While achieving 506p shall challenge the downtrend since 2007 and the years of “political integrity” from PM’s Blair & Brown (aka sarcasm), this is liable to become a truly important era for the retail bank share price as while it’s possible to highlight various price levels as potential problems on the way up, the strength of the share price when this Blue downtrend commenced is liable to make a future 737 a very viable ambition. Hopefully a future mortgage crisis fails to appear at such a level as it would provide Barclays share price with the most poisonous “double top” since “Good Old Yellow Pages” share price pretended a fake recovery…

Should things intend go wrong for Barclays – or at least enact a slow down – below 432p would certainly present a problem, opening up the concept of reversal to an initial 408 with our secondary, if broken, at 353p and the potential for a bounce. At present, we’re more focussed on happier days ahead.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
9:26:25PM	BRENT	8706.4	8475	8098.5	7454	8780	9140	9577	10033	9027
9:30:32PM	GOLD	4846.28
11:20:42PM	FTSE	10693.4
10:24:20PM	STOX50	6038.5
11:06:58PM	GERMANY	24370	24252	24005	23741	24390	24648	24721	24910	24575
11:13:15PM	US500	7073.7
11:16:01PM	DOW	49003.5
11:18:09PM	NASDAQ	26464
10:56:25PM	JAPAN	58899

 

17/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10667 points. Change of 0.74%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,370,886,318 a change of 52.53%

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%

9/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10603 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,549,262,704 a change of -39.09%

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:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:IGG IG Group** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 832 Percentage Change: + 1.71% Day High: 836.5 Day Low: 810

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1520 Percentage Change: + 0.46% Day High: 1531.5 Day Low: 1517

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 52.1 Percentage Change: -11.09% Day High: 72 Day Low: 48.5

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 131.5 Percentage Change: + 40.12% Day High: 144.1 Day Low: 104

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 4969 Percentage Change: + 4.50% Day High: 5038 Day Low: 4794

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 368.7 Percentage Change: + 2.33% Day High: 372.9 Day Low: 354.1

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2876 Percentage Change: + 2.28% Day High: 2900 Day Low: 2760

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 40.4 Percentage Change: + 4.26% Day High: 41.8 Day Low: 38.65

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1444 Percentage Change: + 0.63% Day High: 1453.5 Day Low: 1434.5

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#FTSE #Brent In an ideal world, the S&P 500 is about to produce a “teachable” moment, the index finally closing above the 7,000 point level for the first time ever. Headline writers are waxing lyrical about such an event but we’re neither surprised nor impressed. From our perspective,  the 7,000 level should only be a footnote in S&P movements as the current cycle indicates growth above 7,052 should next trigger movement to an initial 7,085 points. The really impressive level is the potential “top” of this cycle, calculating at 7,450 points.

This secondary ambition is liable to be a big deal, representing a price level at which we anticipate some volatility. But there is an important caveat with the S&P. If the market starts “gapping” the index up, should our initial 7,085 be exceeded, it creates a situation where the goblins who control the market probably have a different, higher, target level in mind. Time will tell.

As for The FTSE, the index is driving us a little bonkers. If it would only move in accordance with “our rules”, we’d be confident proposing happy days are indeed ahead. Whereas Germany which has mucked around since the start of this year just ticked a pretty confident box which points at a future 25,750 on the DAX, a tidy 1,500 points above current levels. But the FTSE feels stalled, shuffling around like a gender confused person facing a choice of toilet doors. The value of the index has exceeded the point of trend break on the Red trend, it has even regained the Red trend, conventional logic screaming the UK index is primed for substantial movement. Instead, we are being treated to daily shuffles incapable of suggesting direction.

Currently, above 10,687 points should prove important, potentially triggering a rise to an initial tame 10,792 points but our “longer term” secondary, if exceeded, calculates at 11,183 points. While journalists shall doubtless deem the 11,000 level as important, the FTSE is liable to continue blundering upwards with a third level target working out at a future 11,447 points. Perhaps the UK Government shall do the decent thing and resign, once again allowing optimism to return. Reports the UK has been buying oil from Norway were a shock, our countries North Sea reserves far greater than Norway’s. The blind adherence to something called Net Zero is actively damaging our economy, just for imaginary political point scoring. In other news, apparently the UK Prime Minister had no idea his proposed American Ambassador has failed “vetting”, a detail which must surely call into question his management style by not monitoring the appointment of the UK’s most important diplomatic position.

Our alternate scenario suggests aggressive eyebrow action, if the FTSE manages below  10,450 points as weakness toward 9.983 points looks possible with our secondary, if broken, at 9,764 points. For now, we’re inclined to adhere to an optimistic outlook.

Have a good weekend, hopefully with a little less rain than we’re getting here in Argyll.

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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
10:27:46PM	BRENT	9420.7	9010	8646		9319	9627	9813		9426	Success
10:29:40PM	GOLD	4788.59	4772	4750		4814	4840	4863		4810	Shambles
10:31:29PM	FTSE	10582.4	10542	10505		10570	10647	10670		10565
10:34:24PM	STOX50	5913.9	5899	5893		5935	5971	5999		5946
10:38:26PM	GERMANY	24107.5	24055	24025		24122	24258	24286		24090
10:45:33PM	US500	7040.4	7008	7000		7037	7051	7069		7017
10:47:46PM	DOW	48628	48278	48116		48480	48671	48752		48463
10:49:32PM	NASDAQ	26299.5	26121	26035		26286	26400	26423		26266
10:53:24PM	JAPAN	59265	58821	58598		59153	59675	59900		59304	Success

 

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%

9/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10603 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,549,262,704 a change of -39.09%

8/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10608 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,752,106,847 a change of 0%

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

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

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

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

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

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AVCT Avacta** **LSE:GENL Genel** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **

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LSE:AVCT Avacta. Close Mid-Price: 75.5 Percentage Change: + 2.03% Day High: 78 Day Low: 73.75

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LSE:IQE IQE. Close Mid-Price: 58.6 Percentage Change: + 8.52% Day High: 60.6 Day Low: 52.2

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LSE:ITM ITM Power Close Mid-Price: 93.85 Percentage Change: -1.78% Day High: 98.8 Day Low: 93.85

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 4755 Percentage Change: + 8.98% Day High: 4958 Day Low: 4356

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2812 Percentage Change: + 2.48% Day High: 2826 Day Low: 2750

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 38.75 Percentage Change: + 0.26% Day High: 40 Day Low: 37.4

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1435 Percentage Change: + 1.09% Day High: 1445.5 Day Low: 1425.5

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#Gold #Japan tt makes a pleasant change to provide a positive outlook against LSEG share price! Since 12 months ago, London Stock Exchange Group has been competing with UK Prime Ministers polling results, though it would be sane to acknowledge the current Prime Minister promotes the concept of Boris Johnston, the cabbage woman, and Tony Blair as being examples of how to really screw up a country. While the Blair government edict for the National Minimum Wage seemed a good idea, we’d a deep down feeling they’d just issued the National Maximum Wage level for unskilled staff. As an employer in retail, it seemed a great idea but also, as an employer in retail, it made sense to reward staff members who went the extra mile.

To be completely honest, we kept a weather eye open for other employers in our field needing competent management staff as, for some reason, we often had a surfeit of “smarty pants” employees who really deserved a better position than we could offer, being a tiny little organisation with just 29 staff. All of whom could do their job, properly, some even “poached” by the oil company to run petrol stations. Unfortunately, for the majority of employers, the National Minimum Wage was to become the “Maximum Wage”, confirming our suspicion a Labour Government has just returned the basic workforce to effective slavery conditions.

Over the years, it proved amusing to note one of our “part timers”, a guy who was a real star and enjoyed an hourly rate a couple of quid above others, completed his university course, joined a rather well known body, and quite deliberately head hunted his office team from the staff of one of our petrol stations, a situation where he assembled a “gang” he already knew could be trusted implicitly. The bloke, 20 years later, remains a chum and we know if we ever REALLY needed help, he’d drop everything. The thing is, it wasn’t about wages, the money being the mercury in a barometer of respect. And the introduction of the National Maximums Wage tended dilute such initiative. Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to watch quite a few staff members ascend corporate ladders, despite coming from “National Minimum Wage” backgrounds.

When we previously reviewed LSEG.L last November, we’d proposed a drop level around 6828p but on the day, the share price “only” fell to 6882p, a curious juxtaposition, maybe a calibration error, maybe one of our dreadful typo’s as we rush to review 90+ shares and create a headline article such as this.  Making matters worse,. the writer is still wearing a pair of reading glasses, bought in a Petrol Station in 2004… (we sold all our retail outlets in 1999, deciding working with software was preferable).

The current situation with LSEG is optimistic, the share price officially achieving a Higher High and suggesting ,movement next abovr 9,313p should trigger share price recovery to an initial  10,418p with our secondary, if beaten, a longer term confident looking 11,685p.. While world events suggest this is a “fingers crossed” scenario, perhaps LSEG are on the verge of creating a new price cycle.

If things intend go wrong, the share price needs dip below 8163p for panic, this allowing the prospect of reversal to an initial 7101p with our secondary, if broken, at a hopeful bottom of 6015p.

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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
10:53:44PM	BRENT	9109.9
10:55:53PM	GOLD	4823.53	4786	4770	4750	4823	4836	4849	4870	4806
11:07:55PM	FTSE	10556.1
11:10:09PM	STOX50	5945.3
11:20:32PM	GERMANY	24109.2
11:34:26PM	US500	7031.7									‘cess
11:45:51PM	DOW	48539									‘cess
11:50:21PM	NASDAQ	26256.4									‘cess
11:53:07PM	JAPAN	58997	58047	57833	57413	58348	59093	59254	59427	58610

 

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%

9/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10603 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,549,262,704 a change of -39.09%

8/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10608 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,752,106,847 a change of 0%

7/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10348 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,456,687,194 a change of 0%

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

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

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

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

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#FTSE #Nasdaq A bunch of enquiries for our opinion on Mercantile justified a look at what’s going on. We smiled at the animation on the home page of Mercantile Ports, showing a busy Karanja Port looking busy without a single Lego figure wearing a Day-Glo jacket strutting about with a clipboard. A degree of sarcasm is justified, the animation completing with a red flatbed truck being loaded with something. It was telling this final animation had the text reversed, a common strategy to ensure the fact a video clip pinched from somewhere else could escape copyright issues. If the text was the correct way around, any image search would quickly reveal the real designer was robbed of royalty payments for the use of his work.  (image shown below)

If the company are being so “cheap”, it also made us question why they simply didn’t use real working images of a port? Every time we go across to the mainland and drive past the cargo port, most of these animation scenes are happening in real time, perfectly visible while our local council roadwork’s are creating more potholes and slow traffic, their cure being to reduce the speed limit to 20mph!

Mercantile appear to be enjoying a series of useful share price recovery spurts, a glance at Google News revealing the company intend to fully repay their debt, along with stepping up to regain control of its Karanja terminal asset in Western India. Quite a lot appears to be happening behind the scenes, doubtless provoking insane levels of discussion among Internet chatter forums. We’ve invented a Blue downtrend since 2021 which may prove to be accurate but we’re not entirely sure. It creates a situation where anything now above 3.07p should perhaps trigger recovery to an initial 4.1p with our longer term secondary, if bettered, at 5.5p. This secondary could prove to be important as Mercantile share price needs close above 5p to indicate game changing potentials for the Big Picture as we can calculate a distant sounding 10.2p should be producing an attraction.

As always, we’ve an alternate scenario, if things intend go wrong.  Below 1.6p risks triggering reversal to an initial 1.17p with our secondary, if broken, a messy looking 0.5p and a return to the malaise being experienced since the end of 2025.

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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
8:45:27PM	BRENT	9138.2									‘cess
9:29:47PM	GOLD	4845.27									‘cess
9:32:06PM	FTSE	10620.8	10569	10538	10503	10613	10642	10647	10698	10602
9:34:02PM	STOX50	5984.4
9:36:24PM	GERMANY	24041.9									‘cess
10:00:27PM	US500	6967									Success
10:03:23PM	DOW	48571.5									‘cess
10:07:52PM	NASDAQ	25823.5	25404	25273	25082	25478	25846	26178	27119	25690	‘cess
10:11:46PM	JAPAN	58721	57367	56770	56074	57904	58787	58917	59832	57781

 

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%

9/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10603 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,549,262,704 a change of -39.09%

8/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10608 points. Change of 2.51%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,752,106,847 a change of 44.19%

7/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10348 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,456,687,194 a change of 0%

2/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10436 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,261,693,815 a change of 0%

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

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

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

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

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

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 562.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1518 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 93 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2792 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#Gold #FTSE As always, everything to do with the British Airways parent involves taking a deep breath and saying “it’s complicated’. The share price had been doing very nicely, thank you, until the start of March, when a fireworks display over Iran kyboshed the entire airline sector.  But in the last few sessions, we’ve received a flurry of emails as the 2nd coming of President Trump is giving considerable hope to the mess of the Middle East. This was certainly the case until the US President decided to release a cartoon depicting himself as “the saviour”, bringing a blasphemy backlash from people in America who think of themselves as Christians.

President Trump was probably stirring the pot deliberately, sending a message he doesn’t really car about religion as he’s prepped to do the right thing to get trade flowing, no matter who he insults. Unfortunately, given the USA’s pretence of being religeous, it was perhaps a joke destined to land in the naughty pile…

Thankfully, personally delivering a sexist joke which spread along an entire corridor of the hospital proved within my power on Monday. My cancer unit appear determined to establish a baseline for my brand of leukaemia, wanting a CT scan carried out to snapshot lymph nodes and my complicated spleen. The entire CT scan business should be unromantic, except for the point when they inject something radioactive into the bloodstream, causing an insant foul taste in the mouth, along with a suspicion you entire upper body has just caught fire. This horrible sensation generally lasts a few moments and was planned to form the crux of a seriously funny attempt at humour.

Standard procedure is you strip, put on one of these joke gowns you are supposed to tie from behind, then another gown over that, worn like a dressing gown to preserve dignity and hide the fact you;ve not bothered even attempting the rear ties. When the big CT scan donut came to a rest and the radiographer entered the room, I said in a slurred voice;

“You don’t half get disorientated after that anaesthesia! I fogot to mention I showered and even put on clean underwear for today. Will my new underpants show up on your image? (Plenty of experience had taught you can retain underwear during this process but the staff had thankfully forgotten to mention it.

The radiographer stumbled;

“Anaesthesia? we don’t five you anaesthetics. “

The nurse said; “thanks for the new underwear. Anything else you’d like to say”

And the radiographer added; “You shouldn’t be feeling confused!”

At this point, all I could say was “gotcha” and the ladies convulsed. But they still made me sit around in the hospital goown for 10 minutes, standard protocol for a run through the big donut.

As for the Middle East and the US Presidents supposed confusion, it’s easy to suspect it was a performance which is designed to ensure he gets his own way. And the flurry of emails asking for our positive take on IAG also make a degree of sense

If our read of the tea leaves proves correct, the immediate situation suspects share price movement above 405p should now trigger gains to an initial 424p with our secondary, if exceeded, calculating at an impressive future 495p. This would place the share price in a zone where a future 602p shall make quite a lot of distant sense.

In the event things intend go wrong, below 350 could be traumatic, allowing reversal to an initial 319 with our secondary, if broken, at 270p. This negative scenario feels unlikely, so perhaps President Trump of the Second Coming shall get his own way.

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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
12:14:05AM	BRENT	9469.7
12:16:43AM	GOLD	4769.08	4700	4669	4633	4732	4776	4825.5	4886	4739
12:19:44AM	FTSE	10580	10520	10479	10398	10575	10621	10647	10698	10598	‘cess
12:22:46AM	STOX50	5929.7									Shambles
12:25:28AM	GERMANY	23879.5
12:27:05AM	US500	6885
12:31:36AM	DOW	48199.9
12:36:10AM	NASDAQ	25416.7									‘cess

 

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%

9/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10603 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,549,262,704 a change of -39.09%

8/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10608 points. Change of 2.51%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,752,106,847 a change of 44.19%

7/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10348 points. Change of -0.84%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,456,687,194 a change of 2.69%

2/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10436 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,261,693,815 a change of 0%

1/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10364 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,245,214,633 a change of 0%

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

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

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

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

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

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1501 Percentage Change: + 1.52% Day High: 1501 Day Low: 1475

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LSE:IQE IQE. Close Mid-Price: 49.1 Percentage Change: + 32.70% Day High: 54.6 Day Low: 36.85

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 84 Percentage Change: + 17.73% Day High: 85.9 Day Low: 70

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LSE:SCLP Scancell. Close Mid-Price: 12.75 Percentage Change: + 2.00% Day High: 13.25 Day Low: 12.5

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