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Greggs Plc (LSE:GRG) getting a bit stale?

 #FTSE #Nasdaq One of the great mysteries of the stock market was exhibited this week, Greggs Plc boasting of sales passing a record £2bn but still experiencing a 10% share price drop  and price movement below an uptrend since 2020. In fairness, the market has spent since the start of 2025 expecting this drop, share price movements during the first two months of the year spreading themselves as this as the butter on a Greggs sandwich! To be honest, it’s an area this writer knows nothing about, never having been in a Greggs nor eaten their products, thanks to “enjoying” Coeliac disease, the gluten thing. But Greggs sales increase was nothing to do with the British public overwhelming their already hard working outlets but instead, due to the company opening more Greggs outlets.

This has certainly contributed to a perceived increase in sales but mainly due to their store count increasing by nearly 10% rather than existing branches – already suffering from higher wage costs and inflationary pressures – doing particularly well. As a result, we’re a little cynical over the companies immediate prospects.

From a charty perspective, we are already showing the share as being on a cycle to 1769p and perhaps a bottom. With the low of 1784p on Tuesday, in a world of unicorns and unending optimism, we’d be happy to suggest this drop was close enough to such a target as 1769p. Unfortunately, such an attitude would ignore the price already being parked below the read uptrend since 2020, and then gapped below our Red uptrend below. This behaviour gives a pretty thorough inclination to believe the market hasn’t yet finished grinding Greggs into the ground… We do not expect a real immediate bounce.

Now below 1769 looks capable of entering a cycle down to 1333 next with our secondary, if broken, at 1257p. The proximity of both target numbers tends imply a bounce should be anticipated, especially due to the target levels sitting comfortably above the lows of 2020. In addition, below 1257p would enter a twilight zone where an ultimate and unlikely drop target of 612p awaits.

 

If things were to attempt an emergency surgery to stop the rot, above 2100 would imply the potential of coming movements to 2512 with secondary, if bettered, at 2685p. This seems about as unlikely as expecting the current UK Prime Minister to apologise for his incompetence.

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FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
9:49:16PM BRENT 7096.2 ‘cess
9:52:20PM GOLD 2917.27 Success
9:54:10PM FTSE 8831.9 8746 8698 8627 8800 8873 8908 8962 8826
11:43:49PM STOX50 5478.1 Success
11:46:19PM GERMANY 22748 ‘cess
11:48:32PM US500 5817.8 ‘cess
11:51:19PM DOW 42764.5 ‘cess
11:54:29PM NASDAQ 20478 20270 20093 19891 20457 20700 20795 21048 20500 ‘cess
11:57:04PM JAPAN 37300 Success

 

4/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8759 points. Change of -1.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,986,196,002 a change of 22.76%
3/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8871 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,320,378,637 a change of -49.26%
28/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8809 points. Change of 0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 14,426,533,627 a change of 91.89%
27/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8756 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,518,268,288 a change of 21.01%
26/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8731 points. Change of 0.73%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,212,854,759 a change of -4.11%
25/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8668 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,478,870,440 a change of 6.36%
24/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8658 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,091,356,449 a change of 2.58%

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

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

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

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

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc Close Mid-Price: 226.1 Percentage Change: -10.95% Day High: 252 Day Low: 226.9

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International Workplace Group Plc (LSE:IWG) back to work?

#Gold #SP500  Despite Mr Musk leading the initiative to getting everyone back into the office and visibly working under the lash of whip wielding “team leaders” etc, there’s another reality which isn’t being given sufficient credence and it relates to how banks treat assets. It used to be the case where banks would treat ownership of office blocks and towers as solid, safe, assets, the safest gauge by which they’d judge the net worth of clients. Times have changed dramatically since 2020 and now, office blocks and to a lesser degree, retail rental property, are now longer being treated as “money in the bank”.

IWG Plc, known for providing serviced offices under several trading names,  perhaps are hanging the reason for their existence on a shaky hook but their share price has recently, quite exuberantly, broke through the downtrend since 2020, showing some early signs for price recovery. We’re fairly comfortable with an initial scenario which suggests movement next above 202p should bring recovery to an initial 209p. This would make a lot  of visual sense, challenging the highs of 2024.

Our longer term secondary (or later that day!) calculates at 216p but our inclination is not to trust any rise until such time the share price actually closes above 209p.

An event such as this opens the door to significant Big Picture performance, calculating as placing the share price in a region where ongoing traffic to a future 286p works out as very possible, perhaps hinting at offices throughout the world packed full of happy folk returning to cubicles with artificial scent hiding the smell of freedom and a litany of problems logging into servers, thanks to IT departments overwhelmed with the concept of returning to business as usual. Amusingly, a chum already involved in such a scenario, recently moved house and a key component of his new property was the ability to emplace and cool a bank of servers. The last few years proved conclusively he functioned best, when controlling corporate systems from home, rather than the 3rd world portacabins assigned to IT. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that one of Scotlands leading restaurants is literally across the road, making his new house a perfect place for a chat over lunch…

 

If everything intends go wrong, this share price needs close below 166p to justify panic.

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FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:24:57PM BRENT 7140.3 Shambles
11:37:12PM GOLD 2892.46 2859 2847 2831 2879 2896 2914 2941 2869 Success
11:12:09PM FTSE 8834.7
11:16:26PM STOX50 5497.8 Success
11:23:22PM GERMANY 23026.4
11:28:55PM US500 5858.9 5812 5777 5706 5874 5956 6008 6073 5908
11:35:13PM DOW 43219 Shambles
11:37:39PM NASDAQ 20464.6
11:40:38PM JAPAN 37319 ‘cess

 

3/03/2025 FTSE Closed at 8871 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,320,378,637 a change of -49.26%
28/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8809 points. Change of 0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 14,426,533,627 a change of 91.89%
27/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8756 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,518,268,288 a change of 21.01%
26/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8731 points. Change of 0.73%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,212,854,759 a change of -4.11%
25/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8668 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,478,870,440 a change of 6.36%
24/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8658 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,091,356,449 a change of 2.58%
21/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8659 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,938,081,458 a change of 0.78%

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

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

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

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

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 942.5 Percentage Change: + 0.95% Day High: 950.2 Day Low: 929.4

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp. Close Mid-Price: 72.34 Percentage Change: -0.88% Day High: 73.32 Day Low: 71.76

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 480.3 Percentage Change: + 0.31% Day High: 484.3 Day Low: 470.7

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc Close Mid-Price: 253.9 Percentage Change: -2.27% Day High: 258.8 Day Low: 242.7

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 776.8 Percentage Change: + 4.41% Day High: 798.4 Day Low: 767.4

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Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY) still blooming? 

#Brent #Germany We’ve waited years to enter a positive frame of mind regarding the UK retail banks. Now, movement which has actually started places us in the position of being ultra cynical, bank share prices being as trustworthy as a Ukrainian president! There seems a wilful motive in European media, deciding to ignore the Ukraine President was asked to Washington to sign an agreement in front of the world press, then he decided to change the rules in the hope of placing the US administration in a difficult public position.

However, he chose the wrong folk to play such a game with, ending with egg on his face but outside the USA, the media seem to be pretending they were not in attendance to take snapshots of the usual PR show of signing something which has already been agreed behind closed doors. To be fair, it was quite funny and the convoluted attempt by the UK PM to say he didn’t and wouldn’t watch what actually happened was questionable, reminiscent of his “didn’t come across my desk” excuse when he served as head of public prosecutions yet somehow didn’t know of three major high profile cases which were ducked. Apparently, Cyril Smith, Jimmy Saville and Grooming Gangs glided below his  desk and notice, similar to the Ukraine Presidents faux pas in Washington. It makes the concept of “learning from mistakes” questionable but we’re trying to be exceedingly cynical in promoting any optimism against a retail bank such as Lloyds. Every time we’ve expressed hope, retail banks rush to follow Lemmings.

 

But now, it’s getting increasingly difficult to be an ultra-cynic about the UK banking sector for several reasons.  Firstly, there’s the downtrend since 2009 which we think important. No matter which trend line we throw at the share, Lloyds has undoubtedly broken trend and can be assumed as recovering? We’ve opted to set a fairly attainable trigger level for Lloyds, suggesting the share price needs close above 73.5p before we dare take the next phase of growth seriously. It is actually quite a big deal as the price is about to move firmly into a Big Picture scenario. Additionally, with the share price closing above the pre-pandemic high, this is generally taken as a big deal for future progression.

Closure above 73.5p should now trigger a cycle to an initial 92p with our secondary, if bettered, at a longer term 114p or better.

For everything to go wrong for Lloyds, closure below 62p would be troubling, allowing reversal to 55p with our secondary, if broken, at a bottom of 52p. For amusement, we’re showing the chart for Lloyds since 2005, effectively showing Lloyds share price is flatlining and price rises shall really only become important once the price exceeds 123p!

For this reason, Lloyds is really worth watching, finally.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued

Market

Price At Issue

Short Entry

Fast Exit

Slow Exit

Stop

Long Entry

Fast Exit

Slow Exit

Stop

8:24:52PM

BRENT

7300.9

7191

6990

6822

7376

7314

7341

7357

7266

8:46:30PM

GOLD

2856.97

2852

11:19:53PM

FTSE

8863.7

8832

11:24:25PM

STOX50

5482

5445

11:26:59PM

GERMANY

22640.9

22222

22048

21841

22320

22668

22695

22826

22478

11:28:42PM

US500

5968

5926

11:31:12PM

DOW

43871.5

43550

11:34:04PM

NASDAQ

20940

20743

11:37:35PM

JAPAN

37720

37540

28/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8809 points. Change of 0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 14,426,533,627 a change of 91.89%
27/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8756 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,518,268,288 a change of 21.01%
26/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8731 points. Change of 0.73%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,212,854,759 a change of -4.11%
25/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8668 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,478,870,440 a change of 6.36%
24/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8658 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,091,356,449 a change of 2.58%
21/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8659 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,938,081,458 a change of 0.78%
20/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8662 points. Change of -0.57%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,892,381,883 a change of 10.17%

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

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

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

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

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

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 72.98 Percentage Change: + 1.76% Day High: 72.74 Day Low: 71.14

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc Close Mid-Price: 259.8 Percentage Change: -4.84% Day High: 274.1 Day Low: 253.9

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1269 Percentage Change: + 0.36% Day High: 1272.5 Day Low: 1252

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Our famed FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX)

Sometimes, glaring at market movements in an attempt to elicit potential movements just doesn’t work. Currently, the FTSE is in such a humourless situation, our software tending to prefer giving giving “safe” predictions which frankly, are useless. When this sort of thing starts to occur, we zoom out and look at the big picture, trying to figure out if the index is suffering from some sort of historical effect.

It turns out this is probably the case as, when we look back in time to the “fun” year which was 2020, a situation was created which suggested the potential of some market stutters around the 8765 level. This, very oddly, appears to be happening though it is hard to comprehend why the absurd market drop literally 5 years ago, should be contributing to our current confusion. With shares, it is understandable as folk who invested while trying to pick bottom, generally are delighted to get their money back, once an investment finally turns to real profit. From a Big Picture perspective, we count this as a halfway point and for the FTSE, this works out roughly halfway to an overall target of 10156 points.

Visually, it appears we may be correct, the recovery from a market low of 4900 creating such a punctuation mark in the FTSE at 8765 and there’s no doubt the index is currently bouncing a bit above and a bit below the target level, like trying to nail exactly 30mph when a police car is behind you!

If we’re right and adhere strictly to our software rules, it’s apparently the case where above 8765 should now power market movement to 8849 next with our secondary, if bettered, at 8928 points. These numbers are quite serious, though bare no immediate resemblance to the state of market futures, while writing this. The FTSE closed Thursday at 8756 points, pleasantly close to our trigger level, but currently (4am Friday) market futures are sitting at just 8697 points. Something, perhaps the UK Prime Ministers visit to the White House, is causing quite severe FTSE Future reversals. Maybe the UK Prime Minister was photographed on his knees, apologising for his behaviour and promising to be a better person in future. It was all a sharp contrast to the French President Macron, who Mr Trump didn’t even bother meeting when his motorcade arrived.

Regardless, FTSE Futures have lost 60 points overnight which does not bode well for Friday.

Presently, it feels like FTSE movement below 8680 should now trigger reversals to an initial 8579 with our secondary, if broken, a less likely 8336 points.

 

Have a good week and cheer up. It’s only 3 weeks until Formula 1 is back on telly.

 

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
9:54:31PM BRENT 7327 7314 7301 7276 7348 7374 7690 7450 7340 Success
9:58:20PM GOLD 2876.85 2876 2866 2836 2888 2898 2904 2916 2882
10:12:54PM FTSE 8731.5 8700 8674 8644 8745 8785 8810 8839 8722 ‘cess
10:43:22PM STOX50 5432 5428 5408 5366 5458 5480 5497 5520 5450 ‘cess
10:51:53PM GERMANY 22402.7 22378 22215 22008 22500 22580 22636 22724 22460
10:57:16PM US500 5867.9 5860 5831 5726 5906 5965 5995 6040 5927
11:01:03PM DOW 43257 43224 43072 42798 43390 43772 43913 44142 43550 Shambles
11:07:41PM NASDAQ 20613 20535 20248 19581 20786 21110 21233 21466 20902 Success
11:11:19PM JAPAN 37701 37556 37459 37111 37793 38129 38366 38637 37960 ‘cess

 

27/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8756 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,518,268,288 a change of 21.01%
26/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8731 points. Change of 0.73%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,212,854,759 a change of -4.11%
25/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8668 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,478,870,440 a change of 6.36%
24/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8658 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,091,356,449 a change of 2.58%
21/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8659 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,938,081,458 a change of 0.78%
20/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8662 points. Change of -0.57%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,892,381,883 a change of 10.17%
19/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8712 points. Change of -0.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,348,624,853 a change of 11.87%

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:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 546.8 Percentage Change: + 4.19% Day High: 548.2 Day Low: 524.6

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 912.3 Percentage Change: + 0.07% Day High: 917.7 Day Low: 906.9

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 470.9 Percentage Change: + 0.84% Day High: 471.2 Day Low: 464

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc Close Mid-Price: 273 Percentage Change: -18.07% Day High: 341.6 Day Low: 268.9

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 731.6 Percentage Change: + 15.94% Day High: 760.8 Day Low: 710.2

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1264.5 Percentage Change: + 1.28% Day High: 1262 Day Low: 1236.5

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Convatec Group Plc (LSE:CTEC) healing wounds…

#Gold #DOW  We’d very mixed feelings in 2023, when a political “Leave Russia” project kicked off, campaigning against companies such as Convatec who remained active in Russia despite events in Ukraine. When a company who lists among their activities in being a market leader in Advanced Wound Care, a political campaign to remove them didn’t sit well. From a personal perspective with a parent who’d been active in the International Red Cross, politically driven complaints about medical activity during conflicts didn’t sit well.

Member of the FTSE 100, Convatec share price made a sufficient twitch to elicit a bunch of emails asking our opinion on what’s coming next?

 

We’re a bit suspicious, due to the dangers of peace breaking out in various areas of the world which shall obviously risk the profitability of Convatec! However, the stock market opted to “gap” the share price up above the Blue downtrend from a year ago, giving considerable hope some good times can be anticipated in the near future. Should we choose to be a little cynical, we’ll not be surprised if the share price experiences near term movement above 270p, triggering a jump upward to 280, quite possibly a little higher.

Should the market follow the usual plotline, a lunge to even 290p can be expected but invariably the price shall experience some relaxation, despite intraday flamboyance actually closing the session below our initial target of 280. But closure above 280p has the potential to trigger a power movement to 311p in the future. This could prove significant, especially as we’re two quite different arguments favouring a future attraction as coming from a confident 356p.

 

If things intend go wrong, the price needs wander below 236 to make trouble, allowing us to project the danger of a drop down to a confident looking 296p as a hopeful bottom. If broken, our less likely secondary works out at 174p.

This is one where we suspect a convoluted upward cycle is expected.

 

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
9:46:06PM BRENT 7225.8
9:49:07PM GOLD 2916.94 2891 2878 2860 2910 2931 2940 2957 2915 ‘cess
11:26:13PM FTSE 8709.5
11:28:05PM STOX50 5480.8 Success
11:30:40PM GERMANY 22636.1 Success
11:45:26PM US500 5959.2
11:29:02PM DOW 43381.2 43267 43106 42852 43501 43868 44093 44369 43678 Shambles
11:31:22PM NASDAQ 21150.8 ‘cess
11:33:26PM JAPAN 38252

 

26/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8731 points. Change of 0.73%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,212,854,759 a change of -4.11%
25/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8668 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,478,870,440 a change of 6.36%
24/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8658 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,091,356,449 a change of 2.58%
21/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8659 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,938,081,458 a change of 0.78%
20/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8662 points. Change of -0.57%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,892,381,883 a change of 10.17%
19/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8712 points. Change of -0.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,348,624,853 a change of 11.87%
18/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8766 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,781,200,025 a change of -0.7%

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:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 524.8 Percentage Change: + 3.27% Day High: 527.2 Day Low: 508.4

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 911.7 Percentage Change: + 1.36% Day High: 910.8 Day Low: 894.8

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LSE:ITM ITM Power Close Mid-Price: 29.28 Percentage Change: -2.01% Day High: 30.32 Day Low: 29.48

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 71.76 Percentage Change: + 4.58% Day High: 71.98 Day Low: 69.6

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 467 Percentage Change: + 3.02% Day High: 469.5 Day Low: 457.8

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1248.5 Percentage Change: + 3.96% Day High: 1256 Day Low: 1211.5

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International Consolidated Airlines Group S.a (LSE:IAG) flying into calm weather?

#FTSE #JAPAN  We last reviewed IAG last August and in the period since, their share price has reached our Primary, Secondary, and even Third level targets. Better still, it even exceeded our third level target, perhaps giving some considerable hope for the future. It is perhaps worth pondering a few truisms from the stock market first, especially as IAG is managing to make two contradictory statements true at once with a third thrown in for good measure & confusion.

The first issue occurs when we review the immediate picture on the chart. IAG has enjoyed a nice uptrend since November last year but earlier this month, it broke the uptrend and is now experiencing “lower low” movements, creating a situation where weakness continuing below 321p is liable to promote reversals to an initial 299p with our secondary, if broken, at a bottom ideally just above 276p. This would certainly provide an ideal level for a bounce, though there is always the risk of the share simply exhibiting further weakness. After all, in the market place, few things are as dangerous as trying to catch a “safe” bottom when loss of confidence in a share price makes it very easy for sentiment influencing folks decision making with the result a downhill path can become a bad habit. Visually, in the case of IAG, we’d hope to see our initial target level of 299p to provide a “bottom” due to previous behaviour indicating this price level means something to the market. This scenario is certainly one for the brave, though it does afford employing a tight stop loss.

 

However, there’s another movement earlier in February worth weaving into our thoughts. The share price somehow managed to define a downtrend since the pre-pandemic high of 2020, creating a situation where any movement now above the Blue downtrend (currently 361p) is liable to prove quite useful. It introduces the potential of a rise to an initial 457p with our longer term secondary, if bettered, calculating at a distant but viable looking 579p, should the share price manage above our initial target. This scenario is made more fascinating, due to the market belatedly noticing the completely artificial green line on the chart. For some reason, when the price surged to 368p in February, the market eventually noticed the prior high of 361p achieved in 2020, deciding this would make a perfect “glass ceiling” level and forcing a stall in the share price increase.

We are certainly fascinated at the coincidence of both the Green and Blue lines creating what passes for a safe trigger level. As a result, we suspect this shall deserve some attention in the weeks/days ahead, just in case the airline decides to ascend to a new flight level. Much as we detest flying, it certainly starts to appear IAG (British Airways) shall be worth keeping an eye on.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:18:34PM BRENT 7266.5 ‘cess
10:22:35PM GOLD 2914.14 Success
10:26:42PM FTSE 8699.9 8648 8623 8593 8681 8714 8757 8806 8672 Success
10:29:57PM STOX50 5466.8
10:32:38PM GERMANY 22536.3 ‘cess
11:14:00PM US500 5963.8 ‘cess
11:16:14PM DOW 43690.1
11:30:29PM NASDAQ 21158.8 ‘cess
11:36:34PM JAPAN 38030 37881 37728 37475 38066 38416 38655 38976 38117 ‘cess

 

25/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8668 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,478,870,440 a change of 6.36%
24/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8658 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,091,356,449 a change of 2.58%
21/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8659 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,938,081,458 a change of 0.78%
20/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8662 points. Change of -0.57%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,892,381,883 a change of 10.17%
19/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8712 points. Change of -0.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,348,624,853 a change of 11.87%
18/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8766 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,781,200,025 a change of -0.7%
17/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8768 points. Change of 0.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,815,003,376 a change of -19.37%

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:ITM ITM Power Close Mid-Price: 29.88 Percentage Change: -3.61% Day High: 31.44 Day Low: 29.84

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 68.62 Percentage Change: + 1.93% Day High: 69.22 Day Low: 66.88

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 453.3 Percentage Change: + 2.16% Day High: 457.9 Day Low: 442.8

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LSE:SCLP Scancell Close Mid-Price: 8.3 Percentage Change: -4.05% Day High: 8.65 Day Low: 8.3

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1201 Percentage Change: + 2.08% Day High: 1211 Day Low: 1176

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LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital Close Mid-Price: 11.55 Percentage Change: -17.79% Day High: 14 Day Low: 11.62

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Glencore Plc (LSE:GLEN) starting to bloom?

#Gold #SP500  While it is relatively straightforward picking trigger levels on a share price which is heading up, proposing a trigger ( bounce) level  is fraught with danger. A very real truism in the marketplace is the warning “Never Catch A Falling Knife”. Our issue is quite simple, Glencore share price is falling and we’re about to propose a level by which we’d hope for a rebound. About the only nice thing with this strategy is the ability to propose a fairly tight stop level, this being a point where our upward calculations fall apart!

To clarify, we suspect Glencore share price intends a bounce from around 304p, a price level it’s extremely close to. According to our calculations, price closure below 304p will be troubling as it would effectively destroy all arguments favouring a sharp upward movement. In summary, the visuals give considerable hope for a movement which should hopefully exceed 375p, essentially destroying the gloom generated by the current surge below the Red line on the chart. Movements such as this should prove capable of generating a nod in the direction of 406p with our longer term secondary, if bettered, at a future 473p.

Our problem comes if the price closes below 304p, essentially giving the share price the opportunity to slide to a ridiculous looking 211p. But on the brighter side, if our rebound hypothesis comes to fruition, we’re able to calculate a distant future 558p as providing an attraction, allowing the price to match its high from 2023.

This should be worth watching in the days ahead.

 

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:47:28PM BRENT 7443.4
10:50:00PM GOLD 2948.76 2922 2911 2896 2934 2956 2965 2976 2945
11:05:13PM FTSE 8639.2
11:07:41PM STOX50 5427.8 ‘cess
11:12:57PM GERMANY 22324.2 ‘cess
11:16:40PM US500 5992.7 5978 5941 5872 6020 6052 6080 6114 6018 ‘cess
11:26:10PM DOW 43534 Success
11:28:56PM NASDAQ 21347
11:31:05PM JAPAN 38420

 

24/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8658 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,091,356,449 a change of 2.58%
21/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8659 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,938,081,458 a change of 0.78%
20/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8662 points. Change of -0.57%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,892,381,883 a change of 10.17%
19/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8712 points. Change of -0.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,348,624,853 a change of 11.87%
18/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8766 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,781,200,025 a change of -0.7%
17/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8768 points. Change of 0.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,815,003,376 a change of -19.37%
14/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8732 points. Change of -0.37%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,971,374,028 a change of -3.83%

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:GKP Gulf Keystone Close Mid-Price: 186.8 Percentage Change: -4.01% Day High: 197.7 Day Low: 184.3

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra Close Mid-Price: 317.95 Percentage Change: -1.82% Day High: 326.4 Day Low: 316.4

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LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group Close Mid-Price: 9696 Percentage Change: -2.06% Day High: 9804 Day Low: 9602

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LSE:ITM ITM Power Close Mid-Price: 31 Percentage Change: -1.52% Day High: 32.5 Day Low: 30.5

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LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital Close Mid-Price: 14.05 Percentage Change: -14.85% Day High: 16.5 Day Low: 14.12

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