Author: T&T Staff

FTSE for FRIDAY  (FTSE:UKX)  

Our impoverished British Prime Minister,  reduced to accepting donations of clothes and spectacles for his family once he took office, now appears to be plumbing a new low, something the Americans even have coined a phrase for. “Stolen Valour” is currently being used to describe one of the Vice President nominations, a bloke who claims to have been in war and also, to have left the US army at a rank he’d not actually achieved. Personally, while being fairly dispassionate about the whole thing, it was with a bit of a shock when the UK Prime Minister claimed a family member had been aboard a ship which was torpedoed during the Falklands war. Unless his uncle was fighting for Argentina, those of us who lived through that period will remember absolutely NO British vessels were sunk by torpedo.

To be honest, when news of an Argentinean ship being sunk appeared, it was a fairly scary moment for those of us gathered in a pub that Tuesday evening, jointly worried if conscription was about to be inflicted on younger males of a draftable age. But unless the Prime Ministers relative was working for the Argentineans, it’s unlikely he was torpedoed, though it would go some way to explaining the fury – at the time – from certain members of the Labour Party who seemed to think such an event was “just not fair”.

Tonight, it was tempting to steal someone else’s photograph of the Aura Borealis on Thursday evening. The show was substantially better than the display last May as this time, curtains of light were clearly visible in the sky above Argyll, amazing colours appearing then vanishing, along with what looked like jet contrails crossing the sky from East to West. As a “sensible” photographer, a camera is always ready to be grabbed and this time, my fancy Nikon was pulled off the shelf. Shown below, green lights moving above the trees, utterly concealing how impressive the evening was. It appears to use my model of Nikon successfully at night, a degree in photography would help. The camera can do a close up of an aircraft at 40,000 feet, just by using the zoom button but night-time snapshots are a little challenging. Hence, considering committing the crime of “Stolen Snapshots” to try and illustrate an event which finally gave an understanding as to why folk drool about Aurora Borealis. On the plus side, no-one is going to steal the photo below as it’s a bit rubbish.

 

It’s interesting to note, since the previous Aurora event in May 2024, the FTSE has hardly moved, fluttering above and below the 8300 point level. In the same period, the DOW has gained 3,000 points while Germany managed a 1,000 point gain. Even France has been worthy of comment, unfortunately due to the index sinking by 500 points. But for the UK, we’re worried at the markets ability to effectively flatline for 5 months. Perhaps everyone is waiting for our obviously impoverished Prime Minister to make an appearance at the gates of Downing St, busking on a banjo about his old Uncle Albert in the Navy. All he needs is someone to donate a big hat for begging.

 

Anyway, returning to the FTSE, we’re obviously extremely frustrated at the lack of imaginative movement for the recent 5 months. Visually, if it were a share, we’d be pretty comfortable it was simply awaiting the correct set of circumstances to head upward and paint new all time highs. To be fully ridiculous, we need to admit the FTSE index value is now regarded as trading in a zone where a future attraction is coming from 10,190 points. This is a significant number when compared with current price levels. The obvious worry with such halts in market gains is the old threat, “if it ain’t goin’ up, it’s goin’ down.”. Generally, when a share price experiences this sort of hesitation, any downward movement tends be short lived, the market being surprised by quite coherent recovery and gains.

 

From a nearer term perspective, the salient detail the FTSE hasn’t actually done anything since May 2024 is proving extremely frustrating., creating a situation where below 8220 points now threatens reversal to an initial 8146 with our secondary, if broken, at the possibility of joining Prime Minister Starmer on the pavement, begging for a low of 8089 points. If triggered, the tightest stop looks attractive at 8236 points.

Our alternate scenario allows above 8274 points triggering gains to an initial 8327 points with our secondary, if beaten, at an amazing 8459 points!.

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
9:46:56PM	BRENT	7902	7672	7551	7413	7806	7966	8138	8344	7865	‘cess
10:12:48PM	GOLD	2629.27	2603	2593	2580	2619	2632	2637	2643	2617	‘cess
10:18:30PM	FTSE	8252.8	8216	8193	8164	8243	8280	8300	8339	8256
10:22:08PM	STOX50	4978.3	4949	4929	4907	4969	4988	4998	5015	4965
10:50:25PM	GERMANY	19226.5	19143	19131	19072	19243	19291	19381	19540	19218
11:05:09PM	US500	5782.6	5763	5758	5745	5780	5795	5808	5823	5770
11:09:25PM	DOW	42475	42300	42245	42136	42428	42550	42582	42676	42430
11:13:52PM	NASDAQ	20246	20114	20089	20011	20320	20320	20367	20451	20183
11:16:52PM	JAPAN	39390	38871	38860	38576	39130	39509	39682	39949	39216	Success

 

10/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8237 points. Change of -0.07%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,747,138,967 a change of 12.51%

9/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8243 points. Change of 0.65%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,219,173,545 a change of -36.61%

8/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8190 points. Change of -1.36%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,655,496,813 a change of 41.95%

7/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8303 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,688,627,065 a change of -10.63%

4/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8280 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,246,156,906 a change of -2.97%

3/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8282 points. Change of -0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,406,589,998 a change of 0.25%

2/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8290 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,393,073,396 a change of -18.14%

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:AFC AFC Energy Close Mid-Price: 8.5 Percentage Change: -8.60% Day High: 9.04 Day Low: 7.51

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LSE:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 1420 Percentage Change: + 1.25% Day High: 1424.5 Day Low: 1370.5

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LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G Close Mid-Price: 10.6 Percentage Change: -3.64% Day High: 11 Day Low: 10.62

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 654 Percentage Change: + 3.48% Day High: 650 Day Low: 627

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer Close Mid-Price: 379.9 Percentage Change: -0.78% Day High: 383.5 Day Low: 377.3

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments Close Mid-Price: 1948 Percentage Change: -2.40% Day High: 1992 Day Low: 1956

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LSE:SPX Spirax Close Mid-Price: 6910 Percentage Change: -1.14% Day High: 6985 Day Low: 6860

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#Gold #SP500   Historically, we’ve ample reason to utterly distrust Silver price movements, quite literally dating back to that Friday in 2011 when we suspect whoever was controlling the price  went out for wet lunch, leaving an intern to make decisions. When everyone came back from the pub and noticed Silver was almost at 50 dollars, the commodity suffered the fastest reversals seen since that Falklands oil company mentioned the bucket of oil they’d discovered was actually just dirty water. Prompting us to revisit Silver, the final episode of Grand Tour with Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond, featured the trio pretending to smuggle several kilo’s of Silver out of Zimbabwe and in the process discovering the only border in the continent not manned by folk with guns and more soldiers than can be justified. Spoiler alert; their cunning plan was a success but a further question arose?

In the 7 years since they started the show, Jeremy Clarkson has somehow managed to become around 18 months pregnant, developing a massive baby bump which calls the state of his health into question. His car in the final episode was a diminutive Lancia Monte Carlo, a car designed for folk with a smaller stature, and how he managed to get in and out of the vehicle remains a puzzle. But on the bright side, as someone with experience driving that little sports car extensively at high speed, it was a pleasure to finally see one appear on a car program.

 

Returning to their efforts of smuggling silver out of the country, an initial workout for the eyebrows came when they discussed the price of the raw metal in Zimbabwe. A quick visit to exchange rates and our calculations showed the potential for quite an impressive 10 fold profit. Though it may have been 1,000 fold as there was some uncertainty about how they paid for it. Inevitably, the final episode of the show inspired us to actually revisit Silver to try and discover if the markets harbour any ambitions for a future above the $30 level. Surprising to note, there are some early signs hinting this may be the case.

In the last few weeks, the price of Silver has dared to break above the downtrend since 2011 but importantly, the value of the metal has not been permitted to close above the trend. Instead, we’ve 8 upward flourishes which just may be a tease to sucker folk into believing price movements with Silver will follow those of Gold. This feels very unlikely but we shall now be interested if Silver bubbles above $33 as this should now trigger a lunge in the direction of 36.2 next with our longer term secondary, if bettered, at 38.8 dollars.

Overall, should the price of Silver manage to close above the $33 level, we shall regard it as entering a long term cycle to a future $45.

 

But of course, thanks to events in 2011 and our ability to maintain a long term grudge, we’d now be concerned if Silver melted below $29.5 as weakness down to an initial $23 calculates as possible with our secondary, if broken, at a hopeful bottom of just $20 and hopefully a proper bounce.

 

 

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:20:38PM	BRENT	7669.4									‘cess
11:23:30PM	GOLD	2608.86	2605	2595	2565	2624	2625	2632	2641	2615
11:26:22PM	FTSE	8268									Shambles
11:31:35PM	STOX50	4984									‘cess
11:34:49PM	GERMANY	19269									‘cess
11:38:13PM	US500	5788.4	5733	5710	5681	5759	5797	5807	5852	5769	‘cess
11:42:12PM	DOW	42512.7									Success
11:44:51PM	NASDAQ	20261									Success
11:48:17PM	JAPAN	39658

 

9/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8243 points. Change of 0.65%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,219,173,545 a change of -36.61%

8/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8190 points. Change of -1.36%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,655,496,813 a change of 41.95%

7/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8303 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,688,627,065 a change of -10.63%

4/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8280 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,246,156,906 a change of -2.97%

3/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8282 points. Change of -0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,406,589,998 a change of 0.25%

2/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8290 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,393,073,396 a change of -18.14%

1/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8276 points. Change of 0.49%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,588,507,831 a change of -4.69%

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:AFC AFC Energy** **LSE:CCL Carnival** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:MMAG Music Magpie** **

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LSE:AFC AFC Energy Close Mid-Price: 9.3 Percentage Change: -6.06% Day High: 10.06 Day Low: 9.15

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LSE:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 1402.5 Percentage Change: + 8.34% Day High: 1403.5 Day Low: 1292

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 382.9 Percentage Change: + 2.96% Day High: 382.4 Day Low: 373.8

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LSE:MMAG Music Magpie. Close Mid-Price: 8.65 Percentage Change: + 0.58% Day High: 8.84 Day Low: 8.6

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#FTSE #NASDAQ When running through the headlines prior to writing about Rolls Royce, we accidentally stumbled over an Autocar article about the new Rolls-Royce Ghost offering from BMW. Our reasoning for avoiding ever buying a Rolls Royce comes from the other BMW marque, “Mini” along with the often appalling reliability of the vehicles. A relative experienced this at first hand, eventually being told the only fix the dealer could recommend was a new engine, along with the risk this might not solve the electronic problem. Eventually, she realised they simply were unable to sort the issue and effectively scrapped the vehicle, buying a Toyota which has proven utterly reliable, especially as she remembered to have rust treatment applied before it enjoyed Scotlands salty roads.

Of course, the real reason to avoid buying a Rolls Royce, especially after reading the Autocar review, relates to the price of the things. Dropping a 1/3rd of a million on a car which is designed to convince the occupants they are not in a car is silly. Plus, when a chum bought a Bentley Continental GT, within the first year he appreciated cars such as this cannot be purchased unless you can also afford the exorbitant maintenance costs. And thus, after admitting there’s no way we could afford the purchase of a Roller, it’s time to review the real Rolls Royce company who no longer make the cars on which their fame was initially built.

With Rolls Royce and their stunning reputation in jet engine manufacture, it must be admitted there are few companies more deserving of trust when they have successfully knocked together modular nuclear power generation plants, their designs now approved in the USA. Essentially, this is a regime where a few big trucks can park beside a source of water, then produce sufficient electricity to charge a Tesla or provide power for an entire city. With the USA seeming to find its infrastructure trashed in different areas by weather events, there must be a growing awareness mobile nuclear power perhaps shall not be a bad thing. And if it comes with a Rolls Royce logo, so much the better.

 

Rolls Royce share price has been climbing quite remorselessly during 2024, thankfully paying visual homage to our prior target levels of 309 and 397p. For a while, we suspected it may be “stuck” at the 309 level until in February this year, the market opted to gap the price up to 355p and get things moving. Once again, things stalled at the 397 level until, once again, the market gapped the share price upward toward the end of March this year. With price gains again kick started, Rolls Royce finally hit a high of 535p a few weeks ago, the period since working hard to give the impression the rising cycle has again stalled.

We smell a rat.

While we suspect some dramatics shall be possible in the near term with a chance of reversal to 494p, it feels like there is plenty of room for more positive gains. Our scenario is pretty unusual, suspecting the market may play ball by once again gapping Rolls Royce upward anytime soon, preferably above 550p as this trigger calculates with an initial target of 642p. In the event such a level is exceeded, we can introduce a long term target of 721p and that’s it. The share price shall either need a really convoluted path to 721p or the market will need to keep gapping it up at the open for us to be gifted with the ability of calculating beyond 721p.

And of course, there’s always the classic danger of us thinking we understand what’s happening with this share price and unfortunately, usually with someone is convinced they know what’s going on, that’s the point where the universe gives a lazy grin and says “gotcha”.

Our only defence at this point needs RR to close a session below 494p to justify panic.

 

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
1:13:14AM	BRENT	7743									Shambles
1:16:00AM	GOLD	2522.15									Success
1:23:36AM	FTSE	8215.3	8182	8155	8095	8230	8267	8300	8340	8227	Success
1:27:11AM	STOX50	4958.3									‘cess
1:51:22AM	GERMANY	19101
1:55:30AM	US500	5747.5
1:59:45AM	DOW	42051.2
2:08:53AM	NASDAQ	20084.9	19976	19937	19871	20080	20137	20190	20258	20077	‘cess
2:13:24AM	JAPAN	39382									Success

 

8/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8190 points. Change of -1.36%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,655,496,813 a change of 41.95%

7/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8303 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,688,627,065 a change of -10.63%

4/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8280 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,246,156,906 a change of -2.97%

3/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8282 points. Change of -0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,406,589,998 a change of 0.25%

2/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8290 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,393,073,396 a change of -18.14%

1/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8276 points. Change of 0.49%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,588,507,831 a change of -4.69%

30/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8236 points. Change of -1.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,912,406,295 a change of 9.55%

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:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **

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LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G Close Mid-Price: 11 Percentage Change: -2.22% Day High: 11.25 Day Low: 10.75

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LSE:EZJ EasyJet. Close Mid-Price: 494 Percentage Change: + 0.63% Day High: 497.3 Day Low: 483.7

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LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone. Close Mid-Price: 133.3 Percentage Change: + 4.88% Day High: 137 Day Low: 129.4

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments Close Mid-Price: 1982 Percentage Change: -2.60% Day High: 2015 Day Low: 1984

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LSE:SPX Spirax Close Mid-Price: 6945 Percentage Change: -2.32% Day High: 7065 Day Low: 6980

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LSE:TLW Tullow Close Mid-Price: 25.02 Percentage Change: -5.58% Day High: 27.16 Day Low: 24.72

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#Gold #WallSt   It’s funny how, on a day when we finally selected a new garden shed and ordered it, a couple of emails arrived asking our thoughts on a UK builder.  While it’s inevitable a success story like MGNS.L avoid fitting garden sheds, what’s proving a surprise is how difficult it is to find someone to actually build the sodding thing when it arrives on Friday. The manufacturer suggests assembly should be a 2 hour job, a figure which is doubtless rubbish when “assembly” meets real life. Our previous upper garden shed, the one which flew away in January storms, famously indicated a 6 hour assembly time but, in reality, it took three days for two of us to get the thing bolted together. This replacement shed is being placed on a bed of paving slabs, as solid as it gets, and my wife has banned me from taking any part in the build process for “health” reasons. This is a polite way of acknowledging she does not want the shed over-engineered, when I spot obvious weakness’s during construction.

During the January storm, being curious as to how my lower garden shed was surviving, after sliding open the doors it was impressive to realise the steel structure was utterly silent, despite the external battering from 80mph winds. Clearly, the additional bracing fitted was making a difference and regardless of whoever we eventually find to build our additional shed, there are going to be some efforts to strengthen the roof and walls internally.

The current situation is; a near neighbour owns one of the largest building companies here in Argyll and I asked him about the shed problem. He suggested approaching his teenage daughter as she would appreciate the cash, along with actually having something to do when she’s home from Uni for a weekend. This is going to be interesting…

 

As for Morgan Sindall Plc, their share price gives considerable hope further gains can be anticipated but there’s a danger the share price is approaching a logical ceiling. Should the stock market commence “gapping” this share price up at the open anytime soon, our target levels are liable to be exceeded but for now, we can only go with movements during this year. Currently, above 3155p should enter a cycle to an initial 3358p with our secondary, if exceeded, working out at a future 3750p and very possible hesitation. In the absence of evidence showing the price being manipulated upward at the open of trade, we are fairly confident it is approaching an imaginary ceiling.

Of course, we’ve an alternate scenario, one which asks for the share price to dig below 2950p to cause trouble, risking triggering reversals to an initial 2670 with our longer term secondary and bounce point working out at an eventual 2240p.

We like this one but potentially not for long.

 

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
10:55:01PM	BRENT	8110									‘cess
11:30:54PM	GOLD	2642.21	2638	2622	2606	2651	2660	2670	2683	2650
11:38:10PM	FTSE	8284.1
11:41:40PM	STOX50	4948.9
11:45:38PM	GERMANY	19010.4
11:49:06PM	US500	5691.4									‘cess
11:55:53PM	DOW	41916.5	41804	41651	41400	42017	42300	42440	42650	42098	‘cess
12:00:07AM	NASDAQ	19761
11:04:55PM	JAPAN	38731									Success

 

7/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8303 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,688,627,065 a change of -10.63%

4/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8280 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,246,156,906 a change of -2.97%

3/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8282 points. Change of -0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,406,589,998 a change of 0.25%

2/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8290 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,393,073,396 a change of -18.14%

1/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8276 points. Change of 0.49%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,588,507,831 a change of -4.69%

30/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8236 points. Change of -1.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,912,406,295 a change of 9.55%

27/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8320 points. Change of 0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,309,682,763 a change of -12.79%

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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#Brent #SP500  It was a strange weekend, one literally packed full of the potential for something really stupid to happen. For some reason, every 5 years when my wife decides to change car, something daft happens and this time, things kicked off with her falling out with a bloke moving felled tree trunks around with a JCB. A big rule, when around machinery, is to never make a movement unless eye contact has been made with the operator. It was clear the guy was focussed on building a pile of timber, so I suggested to my wife she follow the dog and I on a wide detour through the forest. Unfortunately,  I hadn’t factored in my wifes ability to read peoples mind as she decided to ‘safely’ shuffle sideways past the big yellow machine, eventually making eye contact with an utterly incandescent machine operator who’d hit the panic stop switch.

Her excuse of not wanting to risk her brand new white trainers on the forest floor didn’t impress the operator, not did her attempt to explain she knew he was only working on the right hand side of the track and would have no reason to swing the boom to the left. It all made understanding Ferrari colours quite easy, the bright Red of the chaps face blending nicely with the Yellow paint of the machine… Our drive to the garage to view the car she wanted was in a dangerous angry silence after I explained she wouldn’t dare approach myself or my brother, if we were using chainsaws. And neither would she dream of going over the firing line, when our grand-daughter was humiliating me on the shooting range. Similar to all husbands, I never disagree with her logic in public but in the JCB moment, avoiding entering the conversation with the operator was probably sensible. He was right, she was wrong and her excuse pathetic. Mud on trainers can wipe off, just like blood on heavy machinery.

We arrived to review her potential car. As always, she utterly refused to test drive other than mess around with the drivers seat settings to ensure her feet could reach the pedals. (Funny story, they DID NOT reach the pedals of an MGB GT Coupe, the one occasion she didn’t do this test. But I liked that car and regret saying goodbye.) Anyway, she did the pedal test, then accidentally jumped into the rear seat of the vehicle, leaving me to take it for a howl around the block. It was comfortable in the rear and apparently dogs will not be irritated by noise levels. The car was bought, the garage folk genuinely astounded at her annual mileage of just over 2,500 miles, an advantage of staying in Argyll. Me, I’m unlucky if I go above 1,500 miles per annum but we’ve cheerfully planned a 600 mile day to do a round trip with the intention of getting used to her new vehicle – and buy a new wood burning stove! In summary, nothing stupid happened (yet), we bought the car, we collect it next weekend.

 

All these plans for the future are interesting, making us wonder about Lloyds continuing to avoid making the dangerous first step of becoming useful. Perhaps this isn’t entirely fair, the share price breaking through the Blue downtrend back in May of this year, every single dance step thereafter paying careful homage to the downtrend. It creates a situation where immediate arguments become difficult, forcing us to try and discover what trend the market next  intends pay some attention to.  There is a chance the downtrend since 2015 shall be regarded as important, suggesting the potential of some real gains in the market price, if only it would start increasing in price.

Should this be the case, the immediate situation demands Lloyds share price exceed roughly 61.338p to trigger movement to a potential 72p with our longer term secondary, if bettered, working out at a future 88.7p. Obviously, such an event shall have the UK Royal family enacting repeated bows from Buck House but it’s worth considering our secondary target matches a prior high from 2015, along with the potential for some real hesitation.

It’s all a bit messy, like mud on white trainers, but feels like patience should be required as Lloyds should be heading upward.

 

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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
12:55:12AM	BRENT	7809	7739	7654	7562	7794	7934	8007	8155	7627	‘cess
1:15:09AM	GOLD	2653.01
1:34:19AM	FTSE	8312.1									Shambles
1:38:55AM	STOX50	4979.8
1:51:37AM	GERMANY	19196.9									Shambles
12:20:18AM	US500	5745.5	5694	5681	5655	5714	5756	5775	5800	5732	‘cess
12:23:40AM	DOW	42389									‘cess
12:27:52AM	NASDAQ	20046									‘cess
12:30:52AM	JAPAN	39736

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4/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8280 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,246,156,906 a change of -2.97%

3/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8282 points. Change of -0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,406,589,998 a change of 0.25%

2/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8290 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,393,073,396 a change of -18.14%

1/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8276 points. Change of 0.49%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,588,507,831 a change of -4.69%

30/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8236 points. Change of -1.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,912,406,295 a change of 9.55%

27/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8320 points. Change of 0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,309,682,763 a change of -12.79%

26/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8284 points. Change of 0.19%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,235,455,984 a change of 30.14%

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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#FTSE #Gold  Thursday proved to be a day of humiliation. One of our grand-daughters had asked to visit and while we suspected her intention was target rifle practice, somehow I found myself sitting outside in sunny weather, teaching her to play Don McLean’s “Vincent” aka Starry Starry Night on guitar. While the 11 y/o child has the voice of an angel, she shall never play guitar better than Taylor Swift level but somehow or other, the sunny afternoon kept her attention for a couple of hours while we unwittingly did a duet, again and again.  And again.

Eventually, we had it right, her cunning plan being to play her Mums favourite song at some point over Xmas. Neither of us had noticed occasional people were no longer walking along the sea shore below us. When we called it ‘good enough’, a bunch of folk applauded from behind the hedges and wandering into sight. Grand-daughter, used to being on TV and radio due to school stuff, was not bothered but personally, why does a chasm never open when needed! Making matters worse, our nearest neighbour, quite an internationally famous piano guy, had listened to the entire thing and was now considering dragging one of his piano’s outside as we had changed the mood of a basic and simple tune. The guy has 9 different rooms with different piano’s, each with different lighting and acoustics, and is a proper musician (aka, he reads music, has a recording studio, and gets famous visitors.) And to be fair, wouldn’t dream of allowing one of his posh piano’s to enjoy a vastly variable Scottish climate. But maybe next year we shall enjoy a Strat vs Stein fight over the 1812 in privacy, confusing our dogs who usually bark at each other over the stream and wall. Each can come to the others garden without hindrance but they love the barking contest. Most folk with a Fender Stratocaster experiment with classical music at some point but in this instance, there is a perfect point to turn something ridiculous like Strauss into fun.

The lesson learned was to do this in the back garden. And only sit at the front coffee table with plenty of wine to enjoy the view.

 

It’s becoming a bit of a chore doing our FTSE for FRIDAY, simply due to the lack of realistic action emanating from London. A couple of years ago, a report from the Office for National Statistics revealed portfolio ownership of UK listed companies by Pension & Insurance funds had slipped from nearly 50% down to just 4.2% in 2022. The theory now circulating suggests international investors are not interested in UK shares, as UK institutional invests avoid them like the plague. It is certainly a theory worthy of consideration, one which is backed up by the number of companies fleeing a UK listing for the attraction of Wall St and an environment where share prices actually move meaningfully.

It’s said the majority of changes to the value of the FTSE this year are due to the value of companies replacing those leaving their UK listing behind. Without a doubt, something quite awful is going on and while our personal belief the UK’s trauma’s are a reflection of the UK’s incompetent political regime which has been happy to experience a future ruled by a complete monopoly, one which almost seems immune to any legal action by the FCA against those folks caught colouring outside the lines. However, from the start of December, the UK monopoly has awarded itself a new set of rules to work from, an initiative designed to reduce the number of companies fleeing London to set up home in foreign climates which actually value corporate initiative. Unfortunately, it’s being said the movement is too little, too late, and risks creating a UK FTSE where the bricks of the market shall prove to be made of hollow bamboo with shareholders given a reduced voice on major matters for a company future.

 

Our grump about the markets is obviously due to September wasting everyone’s’ time, the UK central bank dodging its opportunity to become useful and now, we’ve entered October with the organisation claiming it plans aggressive movement on interest rates until the year end. This panic statement tends concur with a suspicion the penny has finally dropped amongst governmental institutions that they’d dropped the ball, literally failing to favour the most important and valuable part of British industry, the Financial Sector.

Maybe it shall prove the case where October shall start to deliver some optimism, both due to forthcoming changes in FTSE rules and changes in UK interest rate policy. This being the case, it should be easy to identify early warning signs for happier days ahead with some genuine index movements.

Should this be the case, near term movement exceeding 8333 points should trigger market recovery to an initial 8367 points with our secondary, if bettered, at 8411 and a reasonable chance of some hesitation, due to historical highs. Market closure above 8411 shall be regarded as a big deal, entering a cycle where a visit to a longer term 8595 becomes possible.

 

If things plan going terribly wrong, below 8226 now risks promoting reversal to an initial 8119 with our secondary, if broken at7950

 

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:00:24PM	BRENT	7787	7439	7358		7570	7800	7881		7651	‘cess
11:02:21PM	GOLD	2655.46	2638	2630		2650	2663	2668		2655	‘cess
11:05:02PM	FTSE	8276.5	8249	8209		8289	8325	8330		8296	Shambles
11:14:31PM	STOX50	4915.7	4908	4892		4926	4985	5014		4950	‘cess
11:21:18PM	GERMANY	18996	18961	18933		19013	19113	19172		19022	‘cess
11:24:21PM	US500	5696	5676	5661		5696	5720	5741		5692
11:29:01PM	DOW	41973	41846	41709		42004	42170	42278		41990	‘cess
11:35:01PM	NASDAQ	19778.7	19653	19614		19814	19915	19977		19797

 

3/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8282 points. Change of -0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,406,589,998 a change of 0.25%

2/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8290 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,393,073,396 a change of -18.14%

1/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8276 points. Change of 0.49%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,588,507,831 a change of -4.69%

30/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8236 points. Change of -1.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,912,406,295 a change of 9.55%

27/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8320 points. Change of 0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,309,682,763 a change of -12.79%

26/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8284 points. Change of 0.19%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,235,455,984 a change of 30.14%

25/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8268 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,559,537,162 a change of 3.34%

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:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 685 Percentage Change: + 1.33% Day High: 689.5 Day Low: 677

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LSE:MMAG Music Magpie. Close Mid-Price: 8.7 Percentage Change: + 0.46% Day High: 8.83 Day Low: 8.6

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LSE:BA. & LSE:JD. currently 1298p & 140p. #Gold #WallSt   In an almost funny phase of self flagellation, Tuesday evening was spent deciding whether to lead with BAE or JD Sports, both companies suddenly showing some interesting potentials. But the really difficult bit was attempting to figure out how to blend a close encounter with a new snowy owl into our efforts. Over the years, a massive snowy owl has been a regular visitor, reliably coming when I give a whistle. Tonight, the Golden Retrievers brain was exploding as she barked at “something” she had trapped in an ash tree. The dog regards a bird perched on the branches watching her as a win and this time, she was obviously at the top of the class.

Suddenly, something jumped out of the tree, dropping around 1 metre before opening its wings and taking flight. It was a small snowy owl, obviously trying hard not to damage its feathers in the close confines of the forest, making me suspect it was on a brand new flying licence. Perhaps it’s the case the monster owl has now become a parent and it was showing the young bird where the favourite places to annoy dogs were. But I’ve certainly never seen a bird jump out from a tree.

 

To start with JD Sports, their share price has followed the lesson from our little owl, throwing itself off a Blue downtrend which commenced back in 2021 is quite fascinating.  The extract on the chart below is of interest, the share price exuberantly exceeding the trend on 17th September, only to be smacked back into place the following day as if the market already knew it had a cunning plan for the days ahead.

The situation now suggests ongoing weakness below 138p risks promoting reversals down to an initial 118p with our secondary, if broken, an eventual bottom of 103p and hopefully a rebound.

If things intend turn positive, the share price now needs above 158p to hint at a trigger movement toward an initial 169p with our secondary, if beaten, at 174p and a need for us to revisit our calculations. Alas, for now we suspect it intends to drop, hopefully with a bottom at 103p as the market certainly appears to be enacting a secret scenario.

 

In a world without any shortage of regional conflicts, perhaps it’s the time to take a hard look at BAE Systems again. After all, should the USA go a little crazy following their Guy Fawkes Election on 5th November and not know who they are supposed to be selling weaponry to, surely any pause in US arms supply could be filled from the UK as our country hosts one of the largest weapon suppliers in the world. The only problem is the UK’s lack of available skilled workers for the defence industry, not really a surprise as they made many of them redundant while attempting to defend executive pay levels…

However, BAE is suddenly looking pretty interesting. Movement above just 1308 should now trigger price recovery to an initial 1330p with our longer term secondary, if beaten, at a future 1457p.

If trouble is planned, below 1221p risks triggering reversals to an initial 1166p with our secondary, if broken, at a potential bottom of 1070p.

For now, we think BAE Systems share price intends some gains.

 

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
10:58:44PM	BRENT	7463
11:04:58PM	GOLD	2658.18	2644	2638	2626	2654	2662	2675	2692	2641
11:07:43PM	FTSE	8274									‘cess
11:18:04PM	STOX50	4962.5
11:13:14PM	GERMANY	19171									‘cess
11:16:58PM	US500	5717.8									‘cess
11:21:15PM	DOW	42227.3	41958	41856	41718	42086	42332	42450	42619	42222
11:23:48PM	NASDAQ	19833.4
11:26:01PM	JAPAN	38694

 

2/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8290 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,393,073,396 a change of -18.14%

1/10/2024 FTSE Closed at 8276 points. Change of 0.49%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,588,507,831 a change of -4.69%

30/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8236 points. Change of -1.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,912,406,295 a change of 9.55%

27/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8320 points. Change of 0.43%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,309,682,763 a change of -12.79%

26/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8284 points. Change of 0.19%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,235,455,984 a change of 30.14%

25/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8268 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,559,537,162 a change of 3.34%

24/09/2024 FTSE Closed at 8282 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,379,835,021 a change of 25.1%

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:MMAG Music Magpie. Close Mid-Price: 8.66 Percentage Change: + 50.61% Day High: 8.6 Day Low: 8.25

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