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A Hard Look at GOLD (PM:XAU/USD)

#GOLD #SP500 This one is difficult. Once upon a time, we gave a target for Gold at $2800, not expecting such a level to be exceeded. Last year, on October 31st, the metal bubbled up to our target level, it immediately retreated, thus proving (thankfully) we’d been watching the correct trend. Unfortunately, the market was only willing to feed us 3 months of feeling smug, then the price of Gold boldly moved above our 2800 dollars at the start of February this year. It was now wandering into an area where we’d to admit we were as clueless as a UK politician in a room full of facts.

Quite genuinely, we’ve been forced to remain fairly silent on Gold until it becomes clear the market actually knows what it’s doing. But when we look back in time to 2002, we’ve discovered a trail of logic which allows for further growth in the price of the precious metal. Apparently, we are now to believe market closure above just 3,400 dollars should trigger gains in the direction of an initial 3,713 with our secondary, if bettered, calculating at 3,780 dollars.

We’re a little interested in these target levels, the close proximity suggesting a further price ceiling awaits. At present, we cannot calculate anything above 3,780, effectively expecting a repeat of what happened at our 2,800 dollar level. Over the years, this sort of thing has happened, when an object such as an index goes above a particular target level. For instance, when the DOW went above 36,000, it became a problem with dodgy calculations pointing at a future 45,000 as becoming a special target level of interest. The index has now brushed against this level twice, being forced to retreat each time, now giving the potential of reversals to 35,000 and perhaps a bounce. But should 35,000 break, all hell risks breaking loose.

And should the price of Gold intend go wrong, it now needs melt below 3,200 as this risks triggering reversals to 3,112 with our secondary, if broken, at 2,931. But for now, we think Gold intends bubble up toward the high 3,700 dollar level.

 

 

FUTURES

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Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:15:45PM BRENT 6550 6431 6381 6312 6515 6588 6702 6868 6486
11:18:19PM GOLD 3359.16 3332 3326 3304 3362 3368 3377 3392 3344
11:23:03PM FTSE 8789.7 8739 8707 8671 8779 8801 8814 8839 8781
11:27:14PM STOX50 5385.6 5325 5309 5283 5350 5390 5403 5429 5373
11:35:27PM GERMANY 24156 23817 23737 23596 23966 24161 24214 24347 24099
11:47:30PM US500 5972.7 5900 5871 5834 5923 5980 5986 6034 5958 Success
11:51:12PM DOW 42543.7 42054 41871 41635 42184 42578 42691 42816 42424
11:53:20PM NASDAQ 21662.6 21360 21242 21084 21460 21716 21755 21998 21596
11:55:33PM JAPAN 37788 37351 37222 37018 37547 37863 37922 38114 37692

 

3/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8787 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,606,086,540 a change of 3.39%
2/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,422,234,482 a change of -53.25%
30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%
29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%
28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 a change of -20.39%
27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 a change of 0%
23/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8717 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,245,191,684 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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Tullow Oil Plc (LSE:TLW) and a Bitcoin thought!

#Bitcoin #Gold It was a good weekend. Formula One managed to bring a few exciting laps but more importantly, Dr Who appears to be acknowledging the dreadful choices of unwatchable characters in the lead role, bringing Billie Piper back as the main character. It’d certainly be funny, if she returns as The Doctor and is assigned Chris Ecclestone as her sidekick. As we’d hoped, the Grand Prix drivers were learning how to race again, aside from one who employed a Mario Karts move against a superior car. It proved to be one of these occasions, where penalty points and race punishment was correctly applied.

Elsewhere in the world, things have been stirring!

 

In the dream world of crypto currency, the media have been lining up to ridicule JD Vance, the American vice president who will obviously always be wrong due to being appointed by President Trump. However, the guy seems to have a point in expressing an interest in future growth for Bitcoin, despite it recently attaining an all time high, then retreating slightly.

From our perspective, closing above 105,000 dollars was important as it “proves” the potential of some future traffic upward. Movement next above 112,000 calculates with the potential of a lift to 120,213 next with our longer term secondary, if bettered, working out at 135,800 dollars. One interesting aspect of Bitcoins price movements emanates from the price now mapping itself against each days closing prices, rather than day trade highs and lows. For us, this is quite a happy thing as it makes life easier when looking for danger points. At present, below 92,000 dollars would provide the first solid signal of reversals ahead.

We can also make the point about the circled area on the chart below, this being a point where Bitcoin managed to close below the uptrend. In summary, should the price dip below such a level at $52,000, we shall swiftly revert to suggesting folk buy a pair of running shoes and escape a terrible future.

 

Tullow Oil is finally scratching the itch which has been rotten share price movements. To be honest, we’ve been expecting a news report where a hedge fund or unheard of Oil Company shall appear and make a budget offer for the company shares. Too often, price movements here have felt like a share price being artificially managed. We’d not be surprised if an offer of 20p/share were dangled, offering some slight succour to punch-drunk investors.

Tullow share price has finally closed above the downtrend since May of last year, giving very slight hope things may have changed.

Movement next above just 15.8p calculates with the potential of a lift to an initial 16.4p. Our secondary, should such a mild target be exceeded, works out ay 20.5p and an expectation of some hesitation, given price price movements from August to December last year. Closure above 20.5p shall be regarded as a REALLY BIG DEAL, opening a wild series of calculations which point to a future 41p eventually. Perhaps the company shall drill into a world, where their machinery can reliably supply fabled  McDonalds milk shakes or Printer Ink, two products which have real market value.

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:37:00PM BRENT 6502 Success
11:39:18PM GOLD 3388.41 3343 3324 3302 3363 3390 3402 3454 3344 Success
11:44:53PM FTSE 8805
10:53:49PM STOX50 5383.8
10:59:52PM GERMANY 24061.6 ‘cess
11:04:07PM US500 5931.6
11:07:23PM DOW 42279.7
11:10:37PM NASDAQ 21478.8 21123 20986 20804 21221 21537 21593 21782 21449 ‘cess
11:17:59PM JAPAN 37731
2/06/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,422,234,482 a change of -53.25%
30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%
29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%
28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 a change of -20.39%
27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 a change of -17.68%
23/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8717 points. Change of -0.25%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,245,191,684 a change of 42.4%
22/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8739 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,088,072,082 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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Barclays Plc (LSE:BARC) looking good???

#FTSE #DOW  Finally, the stars aligned and brought a Grand Prix where there a few utterly fantastic laps, along with some reasonable attempts at cheating from the reigning world champion. Surely, at some point, the guy is going to have to admit he’s never going to challenge Louis Hamiltons 8 honest World Championships. Unfortunately, we’ve discovered a new way of avoiding watching Formula1 on a Sunday afternoon, giving plenty of reason to spend time in the garden with plausible deniability for any complaints from my wife.

Over the last 3 months, we’ve knocked together some seriously successful batches of wine. Our number #1 has turned out to be a Rioja, produced from grape concentrate from France. Our #2, amazingly, is a Pinot Grigio. This 25 litre batch has proven wonderful, perfectly capable of converting red wine folk into the usually bland world of white wine. And our #3 success story was another batch we called Klingon Blood Wine (actually a Cabernet Sauvignon) which has turned out to be rather nice, equally fine with morning cornflakes or with late night snacks!

The “secret” to the improvement in our wine efforts is regarded as being due to 2 things. Firstly, we’ve only been using spring water, obtained and licensed locally. And secondly, we’re now paranoid about fermentation temperatures, ideally aiming to hold things at 24c during the fermentation process. However, we think we can do better, so Sunday afternoon was spent distilling water on a home made pressure system. This involved boiling water, letting the steam escape from the pressure container and pass through a condenser coil (a spiral of copper tubes), this coil residing within a basin of seriously cold water. Our easy fix was to pour water from a garden hose into the basin, while occasionally tipping a load of ice cubes into the water. Any superheated steam passing through the condenser coil quickly changed into liquid, dripping into our 5 litre collection containers. Our theory is fairly basic, tap water in Argyll is very palatable but has produced some truly brilliant and truly awful wine fermentation runs. We’ve even got 30 bottles of a Shiraz which is foul, kept only in the hope it may mature! But since switching to Spring Water and being brutal with temperature control, quality has improved. But our theory is Distilled Water may produce the most stable run of imported grape concentrate, so our utterly tasteless water production during the Sunday Grand Prix will be used along with another batch of Rioja grape concentrate. Hopefully, the end product shall be a Rioja with serious depth of taste. We shall know this outcome in a few weeks.

In summary, if looking for a hobby which gives a perfect excuse to avoid watching a Grand Prix, getting into making real wine isn’t the worst idea and once you’ve made all the usual mistakes, it becomes fun, requiring a greater degree of patience than working with the stock markets. Our own production is now bottled, stored in a garden shed, and labelled with funny descriptions, giving a super way of saying thanks to folks and at the same time, gathering opinions on how good the experiment has been. From a personal perspective, it can be really funny, returning to the car after a dog walk and finding a bunch of empty wine bottles from other dog walker friends hoping for a refill.  These dog owners are generally thanked by giving them cleaned and relabelled 2 Litre cola bottles which don’t need returned. This largess with wine isn’t a big deal, the final cost of each bottle often being just over £1. But the satisfaction of producing something considerably better than supermarket wine or petrol station plonk, is wonderful. Especially with our most recent Rioja which, after the feedback from 8 freebie bottles, is now maturing in the office wine rack, retained for our own in-house use on deserved occasions during the coming year.

Hopefully the distilled water fermentation run shall not be a disaster. Our preference is to avoid adding “ates” to our fermentation mixes, trying to produce a product which is free of additives. As for why, with no intention of selling the production and generally not consuming it immediately (aside from our Klingon Blood Wine), it’s a fun hobby, giving this writer the chance of indulging his experiments. Let’s just say manufacturing the kit to produce distilled water was not straightforward,  the method to force condensation of superheated steam verges on being ‘a little’ dangerous. But on the bright side, it repurposed the use of an old big blue Calor Gas bottle, along with learning how weld properly. And better still, avoiding creating a seriously explosive situation.

My wife is quite happy with this sort of hobby thing, previously having tolerated my motorcycle phase, my sports car phase, my (still missed) big boats phase, my skiing phase, while always remaining in tolerant terror of my “I’ve got an idea!” mindset. Making wine seems to be socially acceptable, for most folk consuming little time once an initial production kit is obtained, fairly cheaply from Amazon or Ebay.

 

And this brings us to Barclays, a share price needing lots and lots of patience as it’s refusing to move with any strength. When we previously reviewed Barclays, we’d privately calculated the share price closing above 333p as being important. Arrogantly, we failed to mention this trigger level as closure above 316p should have been inevitable. When it closed on May 13th, this trigger level was engaged and the price – utterly uselessly – surged to 331p and has done very little since, it being hard to ignore the price remained below our private 333p trigger level. This was a big deal, something we should have mentioned but retained as a “secret”, thinking it would simply confirm our logic. Unfortunately, since May 13th the share price has carefully remained below our 333p level, almost as if the market itself knows a nudge above such a point should drive the share price a little crazy. From our perspective, this is probably quite a big deal, the market essentially confirming where our important trigger levels are.

Share price closure above 333p now calculates with an expectation of movement to an initial 352p with our secondary, if beaten, a longer term 394p. This is a really big deal, dumping the share price into a zone where a long term 600p has become viable.

If things intend go horribly wrong, the share price needs close below 311p as reversal to an eventual “bottom” of 200p is expected.

 

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
10:07:40PM BRENT 6261.9 6195 6092 5063 6550 6405 6471 6560 6309
10:24:55PM GOLD 3288.86 3291
10:35:10PM FTSE 8787 8757
10:36:20PM STOX50 5364.5 5356
10:39:17PM GERMANY 24024 24079
10:44:51PM US500 5903 5885
10:48:03PM DOW 42216 41817 41789 41479 42157 42382 42615 42882 42164
10:51:47PM NASDAQ 21322 21289
10:56:44PM JAPAN 37662 37651

 

30/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8772 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 11,598,431,042 a change of 144.4%
29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%
28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 a change of -20.39%
27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 a change of -17.68%
23/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8717 points. Change of -0.25%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,245,191,684 a change of 42.4%
22/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8739 points. Change of -0.53%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,088,072,082 a change of 2.41%
21/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8786 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 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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FTSE for FRIDAY  (FTSE:UKX) too scared to move?

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

 

29/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8716 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,745,696,803 a change of -0.05%
28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 a change of -20.39%
27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 a change of -17.68%
23/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8717 points. Change of -0.25%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,245,191,684 a change of 42.4%
22/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8739 points. Change of -0.53%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,088,072,082 a change of 2.41%
21/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8786 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 a change of -5.54%
20/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 a change of 0%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lloyds Banking Group Plc  (LSE:LLOY) growing like a weed?

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

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

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

 

28/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8726 points. Change of -0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,748,118,751 a change of -20.39%
27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 a change of -17.68%
23/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8717 points. Change of -0.25%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,245,191,684 a change of 42.4%
22/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8739 points. Change of -0.53%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,088,072,082 a change of 2.41%
21/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8786 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 a change of -5.54%
20/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of 0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 a change of -21.36%
19/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8699 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,688,091,786 a change of 0%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Keller Group Plc  (LSE:KLR) building share price gains?

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

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

FUTURES

FUTURES

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

 

27/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8778 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,964,362,693 a change of -17.68%
23/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8717 points. Change of -0.25%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,245,191,684 a change of 42.4%
22/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8739 points. Change of -0.53%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,088,072,082 a change of 2.41%
21/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8786 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 a change of -5.54%
20/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of 0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 a change of -21.36%
19/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8699 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,688,091,786 a change of -2.89%
16/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8684 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,886,977,578 a change of 0%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX) with potential for excitement.

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

FUTURES

FUTURES

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

 

22/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8739 points. Change of -0.53%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,088,072,082 a change of 2.41%
21/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8786 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,968,302,608 a change of -5.54%
20/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8781 points. Change of 0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,259,543,985 a change of -21.36%
19/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8699 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,688,091,786 a change of -2.89%
16/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8684 points. Change of 0.59%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,886,977,578 a change of 4.8%
15/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8633 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,571,274,924 a change of 9.38%
14/05/2025 FTSE Closed at 8585 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,007,730,039 a change of 12.14%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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