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#Gold #WallSt  When we previously reviewed Close Brothers back in 2023, the so called scandal regarding car loans was just bubbling under but we still managed to give criteria laying out the potential for a drop to 445p. This obviously has been achieved and exceeded but it appears the prospective damage across the financial sector is being diluted, rather than the usual  Money Tree of claims firms making a problem substantially larger than it ever was.

There are now early signs Close Brothers may be shuffling its feet in preparation for some recovery, needing to close a session below 358p to derail any optimism.

Instead, it appears worthwhile to keep an eye on the share price over the next few weeks in the hope it manages to close a session above a significant 508p or, if feeling brave, start trading above 493p intraday. Either trigger has the potential to trigger recovery to an initial 606p with our secondary, if beaten, at a more useful 685p. Overall, this would emplace the share in a zone where a long term attraction calculates as coming from a distant 928p.

If things are planning to go wrong, below 358p risks a visit to an initial 308 with our secondary, if broken, now at an ultimate bottom of 220p along with potentially a strong rebound.

 

Overall, the markets remain in “holiday mode” but some shares appear to be making signs of waking up. The underlying trend in the US and the UK is for market gains virtually across the board.

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
9:05:12PM	BRENT	6604.8
9:13:10PM	GOLD	3636.78	3579	3553	3522	3600	3646	3669	3852	3545	Success
9:16:08PM	FTSE	9227.1									‘cess
9:19:27PM	STOX50	5357.8
9:25:22PM	GERMANY	23792
9:28:26PM	US500	6498.8
9:31:04PM	DOW	45539	45273	45162	45034	45457	45769	45952	46203	45549
9:33:26PM	NASDAQ	23765.2
9:36:17PM	JAPAN	43945									‘cess

 

8/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9221 points. Change of 0.14%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,172,667,369 a change of -14.19%

5/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9208 points. Change of -0.09%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,862,590,557 a change of 7.19%

4/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9216 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,536,344,047 a change of -21.07%

3/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,747,395,783 a change of -1.83%

2/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9116 points. Change of -0.87%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,854,446,717 a change of 77.93%

1/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9196 points. Change of 0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,290,341,623 a change of -43.81%

29/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9187 points. Change of -0.31%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,855,483,777 a change of 30.98%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 618.5 Percentage Change: + 2.32% Day High: 616.5 Day Low: 605

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LSE:CAR Carclo. Close Mid-Price: 65.3 Percentage Change: + 5.49% Day High: 67 Day Low: 62.6

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2178 Percentage Change: + 2.83% Day High: 2186 Day Low: 2128

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LSE:HIK Hikma Close Mid-Price: 1699 Percentage Change: -1.22% Day High: 1724 Day Low: 1686

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 7.82 Percentage Change: -9.07% Day High: 8 Day Low: 7.56

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LSE:MRO Melrose Close Mid-Price: 611 Percentage Change: -0.81% Day High: 625 Day Low: 607.2

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper Close Mid-Price: 85.8 Percentage Change: -2.28% Day High: 89 Day Low: 83.6

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury Close Mid-Price: 312.2 Percentage Change: -0.13% Day High: 314 Day Low: 310.4

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LSE:TSCO Tesco Close Mid-Price: 440 Percentage Change: -0.23% Day High: 444.9 Day Low: 437.8

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#Brent #SP500  We opted to get the popcorn in to enjoy two movies this weekend. The first one, the new “The Naked Gun” was okay, if somewhat repetitive and to be honest, we opted to go for dinner around 50 minutes into the film, the gags becoming fairly tiresome. Essentially, it became a homage/reprise of the funny films from the 1980’s and perhaps if neither of us remembered the original, we’d have been happy staying until the end. But on the bright side, we enjoyed an excellent Chinese meal! Later, at home, we decided to give the film industry a second chance, spooling up “Jurassic World Rebirth”. We did watch it to the end, wishing they had paid more money for a decent script and storyline, perhaps saving money on CGI expenditure. It was okay(ish) and will doubtless appear free to view on terrestrial TV channels around Xmas this year.

Part of our reasoning behind this effort to justify our local cinema has been an ongoing debate as to whether to cancel our TV licence. Increasingly, it’s the case “PC Feed” is chosen for the TV and we end up watching something on YouTube or Netflix, especially as ad-blocker software makes YouTube tolerable. All this makes it pretty certain we shall cease subscribing to the BBC propaganda service, the bias in broadcast news becoming quite intolerable.  Of course, we’d feel quite different if Murray Walker were still commenting on Formula1, Terry Wogan’s drunken slurring on Eurovision, or the beardy mumbling scientist guy (David Bellamy) who used to compete with David Attenborough until he pointed out Man Made Climate Change was a load of rubbish. Then was promptly cancelled across the entire media.

It’s true things change with time but the media, who quite literally host everything from the past, seem unable to learn from history, trying to find what works and what doesn’t. Personally, a gaggle of YouTube channels provide entertainment with “The Why Files” for ridiculous, “Meghyn Kelly” for informative, and “Itchy Boots” travel. For a while, “Russel Brand” also was included but his voice & style can be tiresome, down in the Piers Morgan type of impossible viewing.

 

Surprisingly, this brings us back to our useless Central Bank in the UK, happily inflicting interest rates which puts the country at a disadvantage. With Europe suffering until a 2% regime, while the UK throttles itself with a 4% regime!, it’s not hard to understand why shares outwith the UK are doing okay. Except, for banking sector shares where the UK lethargy has spread to Europe and the USA which enjoys absurd interest rates which attract the US presidents wrath.

 

From our perspective, the current situation with Lloyds demands the share price exceed 88p to provide “proof” a real cycle of gains has commenced. In such a scenario, we’re now looking for movement to an initial 110 with our secondary, if bettered, at 120p and some potential hesitation.

Should things intend go wrong for Lloyds, below 57p becomes troubling as it allows for reversal down to an initial 66p. If broken, our secondary works out at a probable bounce point down at 61p.

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
10:53:56PM	BRENT	6551	6499	6460	6297	6590	6694	6778	6871	6648
10:56:25PM	GOLD	3586.18
10:04:46PM	FTSE	9223.3
10:07:18PM	STOX50	5322
10:11:02PM	GERMANY	23623.4
10:22:05PM	US500	6473.5	6443	6416	6377	6480	6533	6552	6596	6494
10:24:53PM	DOW	45397.2
10:27:08PM	NASDAQ	23645.3
10:29:22PM	JAPAN	43272

 

5/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9208 points. Change of -0.09%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,862,590,557 a change of 7.19%

4/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9216 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,536,344,047 a change of -21.07%

3/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,747,395,783 a change of -1.83%

2/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9116 points. Change of -0.87%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,854,446,717 a change of 77.93%

1/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9196 points. Change of 0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,290,341,623 a change of -43.81%

29/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9187 points. Change of -0.31%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,855,483,777 a change of 30.98%

28/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9216 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,470,443,849 a change of -4.77%

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:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY Close Mid-Price: 604.5 Percentage Change: -0.17% Day High: 609.5 Day Low: 602

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LSE:CAR Carclo. Close Mid-Price: 61.9 Percentage Change: + 3.34% Day High: 62.6 Day Low: 60

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2118 Percentage Change: + 1.34% Day High: 2140 Day Low: 2086

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 963 Percentage Change: + 0.17% Day High: 981.7 Day Low: 960.2

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LSE:MRO Melrose. Close Mid-Price: 616 Percentage Change: + 2.67% Day High: 618.4 Day Low: 602.2

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury. Close Mid-Price: 312.6 Percentage Change: + 2.49% Day High: 310.8 Day Low: 303.2

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 441 Percentage Change: + 0.50% Day High: 442.5 Day Low: 434.7

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#FTSE #GOLD The FTSE is currently exhibiting a “teachable” moment, one worth paying attention to regardless of whether you’re looking forward to the Italian Grand Prix, along with an almost inevitable result which traditionally will exclude Ferrari but include quite a few unhappy Italians. To be honest, personally the Monza circuit is one of my favourites, due to being around it a few times on motorcycles. My wife finds it hilarious watching, when the Monza race takes place, as my muscle memory kicks in, my body moving like a puppy’s legs when its enjoying a good dream. This from the lady who once passed me twice on a single lap of another track!

As for the “teachable moment”, one of our tenets of faith relates to the level at which a price, index value, or whatever, breaks an uptrend (or a downtrend). Obviously, similar to absolutely everything relating to the stock markets, this theory will never be 100% reliable but experience shows it’s right most of the time. There are a couple of rules;

1.    If a price exceeds the level of an uptrend break, it becomes exceedingly likely the trend break was “fake” and gains can be expected. In the case of the Blue circled area on the chart at the start of August, the uptrend broke at 9132 points. Within a couple of sessions, the market exceeded the trend break level, eventually achieving the recent high of 9357 points. This also proved the convincing looking green uptrend was utterly fake!

2.    There’s another situation which occurs, when a price breaks below an uptrend then regains the trend shortly thereafter. This is a Big Deal, usually suggesting some strong movement should be anticipated.

 

The recent break of the Red uptrend at 9238 points, theoretically dumped the FTSE into a zone where we should anticipate weakness to 9027 points with our secondary, if broken, a probable bottom at 8919 points. Our inclination is not to take this terribly seriously just yet, unless of course the FTSE stumbles below the recent low of 9108 points.

More likely, it feels like index gains should be possible in the near term, movement above 9234 points allegedly capable of triggering a visit to an initial 9281 points. Our longer term secondary calculates at 9339 points but from our perspective, the attraction shall occur if the index manages to close a session above 9238 points. This should open the doors for a cycle to commence to above 9700 points.

Have a good weekend. The markets are poised to probably be more interesting than the race from Monza.

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
10:07:12PM	BRENT	6671.3	6625	6596		6690	6729	6769		6670	Success
10:23:10PM	GOLD	3545.63	3511	3504		3546	3564	3586		3535	‘cess
10:25:22PM	FTSE	9231.6	9154	9135		9199	9233	9257		9207	Success
10:29:27PM	STOX50	5357.8	5309	5295		5333	5360	5371		5341
10:32:42PM	GERMANY	23821.2	23566	23501		23725	23841	23941		23756	‘cess
10:35:29PM	US500	6502.1	6446	6428		6464	6505	6511		6482	Success
10:46:38PM	DOW	45621.7	45169	45043		45318	45640	45800		45480	Success
10:54:23PM	NASDAQ	23643.4	23368	23284		23508	23668	23745		23575	‘cess
10:56:46PM	JAPAN	42907	42486	42308		42662	42926	42975		42764	Success

 

4/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9216 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,536,344,047 a change of -21.07%

3/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,747,395,783 a change of -1.83%

2/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9116 points. Change of -0.87%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,854,446,717 a change of 77.93%

1/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9196 points. Change of 0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,290,341,623 a change of -43.81%

29/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9187 points. Change of -0.31%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,855,483,777 a change of 30.98%

28/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9216 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,470,443,849 a change of -4.77%

27/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9255 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,694,536,884 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:AZN Astrazeneca Close Mid-Price: 12188 Percentage Change: -0.18% Day High: 12256 Day Low: 12132

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 605.5 Percentage Change: + 2.02% Day High: 606 Day Low: 592

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LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC. Close Mid-Price: 1.02 Percentage Change: + 20.59% Day High: 1.23 Day Low: 0.92

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LSE:CAR Carclo. Close Mid-Price: 59.9 Percentage Change: + 2.22% Day High: 60 Day Low: 58.2

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2090 Percentage Change: + 0.77% Day High: 2108 Day Low: 2034

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 438.8 Percentage Change: + 1.79% Day High: 440.3 Day Low: 430.7

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#FTSE #Nasdaq   Like many children, being blessed with a father who’d a terrible sense of humour left some long term effects. Once such, from a personal standpoint, involved the price of silver and a father perfectly capable of enlisting slave labour to maximise on (this childs) greed. On a Saturday evening, the family would gather for dinner, then around 9.30pm our parents would head out to lock up the two retail off-licences at 10pm, returning home with the days takings. No-one liked counting the money and as a child, the novelty wore off pretty quickly.

But my dad invented a cunning plan, telling me all the silver coinage dating before 1947 could be kept as “payment”, his story being UK coinage after 1947 didn’t have any silver in it. This part of his ploy was actually true but the reality was the coins were not worth any more than post 1947 coins. But with the agreement I could keep all UK silver coins which dated before 1947, I would happily look forward to my parents each returning with the days takings, even making sure the dining room table was cleared to make the job more efficient. While my parents settled down with a whisky, I’d settle down sorting the money out first, various denominations of notes going into separate piles (and English notes set aside to be checked for forgeries). Generally, there would only be 15 to 20 pounds of coinage but with sufficient glimmers of silver to keep my greed alive.

Once my count from each shop was complete and reported to Mum, I was free to go through the silver coins (back then, there were sixpences!) and check the dates.  Some weeks there was even more than a £1 which I could keep, this number also reported to my mother. While my older brother and sister regarded me as a gullible fool, eventually a trip to a coin dealer ensured I left with £62 after handing over £55. Nowadays, I realise there were probably a couple of properly valuable coins in the mix, justifying his apparent largesse but my seven pound profit certainly gave bragging rights, unaware I’d effectively paid for my one hour lesson in counting cash every Saturday night, along with ensuring the dining table was cleared. Back then, off-licences could not open on Sundays in Scotland, hence the need to get cash “off site” and into a floor safe in the concrete floored kitchen. Mum would do the bank run on Monday mornings. Amusingly, the once intimidating bank in the centre of Glasgow now trades as a cat friendly restaurant, things being quite different since the 1970’s…

It was only recently I discovered coins from 1920 until 1947 only had a maximum of 20% silver content, making it not economically viable to extract the metal. But with this, as with many other of my fathers throwaway comments, it took a prolonged journey into adulthood to separate his humour from actual facts. Oddly, his joke about British Leyland turned out to be true, refusing to take any motor franchise (Rover, Triumph, Austin, Morris, MG etc) associated with British Leyland into the family dealerships as he described the company as trying to destroy the British car industry. It transpired this was true.

 

Leaving the land of reminiscence behind, the price of Silver has attracted a few emails, asking our opinion on the current renaissance in Silver’s price and whether it shall continue.

Our method to handle this sort of thing is to trying and divine the maximum price a share or commodity may reach, in accordance with our software. Obviously, figures such as this should not (but sometimes do) create a maximum ceiling for a price. We’ve certainly noticed, once a share price closes above one of our “maximum” levels, it’s game over from our perspective as any idea of a future high would be absolute fiction from us. While this inability to project numbers never seems to bother the UK Met Office, notorious for making up readings with their “Highest Temperature/Most Rain/Strongest Wind” ever recorded nonsense. This data is usually aligned with the Met Offices massive range of theoretical weather stations which don’t actually exist, creating a domino effect of incorrect data reinforcing itself.

As for the price of Silver, the immediate situation suggests movement above 41.48 should next attempt an initial 41.9 dollars. Our secondary, if this target is exceeded, calculates at a future $42.30 and this represents a really important number. Commodity price closure above such a point should be the point at which an assumption should be made something genuine is happening for the longer term. From our perspective, this suggests taking out a long position, crossing your fingers, buying some sort of good luck token, and forgetting about it for a while.

There’s certainly a chance the price may relax to around $39 once such a game changing event occurs but the reality is important. The price will have just illustrated it can go above a logical “top”, this being a really big deal for the longer term.  The price of Silver would need CLOSE below $38 to utterly spoil our optimism but for now, things look fairly hopeful.

Then again, so did Ferrari before last weekends Grand Prix, Belgium once again exerting its chaotic magic on the sport by producing a mostly enjoyable race.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
10:28:39PM	BRENT	6730.3
10:31:40PM	GOLD	3559.23									‘cess
10:35:40PM	FTSE	9179.5	9100	9068	8972	9157	9185	9196	9227	9150
10:37:50PM	STOX50	5330.3
10:40:29PM	GERMANY	23605.7
10:47:07PM	US500	6450
10:49:07PM	DOW	45211.7
11:27:58PM	NASDAQ	23410.8	23261	23207	23114	23432	23486	23610	23820	23286	‘cess
11:30:47PM	JAPAN	42095									‘cess

 

3/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,747,395,783 a change of -1.83%

2/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9116 points. Change of -0.87%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,854,446,717 a change of 77.93%

1/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9196 points. Change of 0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,290,341,623 a change of -43.81%

29/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9187 points. Change of -0.31%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,855,483,777 a change of 30.98%

28/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9216 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,470,443,849 a change of -4.77%

27/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9255 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,694,536,884 a change of -52.24%

26/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9265 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,830,321,527 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:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2074 Percentage Change: + 8.08% Day High: 2072 Day Low: 1927

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LSE:GENL Genel. Close Mid-Price: 67 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 71.3 Day Low: 65.6

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 335.8 Percentage Change: + 1.54% Day High: 336.2 Day Low: 322.3

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#Gold #SP500   Adopting their name from a bleak village in the Scottish Highlands (Braemar, famous for highland games and royalty prowling around), the illusion of Braemar vanishes with summer as the reality of its location at 1,000 feet in the mountains makes itself known. The “twee” village mostly shuts down, so don’t expect to buy a coffee on a grotty day or find somewhere to warm up after a session at the nearby (occasionally) excellent Glenshee ski area. But the faux respectability from the name “Braemar” has been adopted by many company names.

Our favourite adoption of a name will always be The London Stores on the roadside in a place called Badcall, Sutherland. The tiny little shop has always been overloaded with everything imaginable, becoming hated during childhood as  I was expected to cycle the tortuous 4 miles from our cottage to collect a daily newspaper, when the papers were delivered around 4pm. Back then, neither TV nor Radio signals made it to that part of Scotland, creating a situation where newspapers were not only trusted but relied upon as a source of information. Additionally, my parents used the telephone in the local hotel bar as an excuse to go out at night, just to check on their business’s in Glasgow (drink/drive laws were more a suggestion then)… Few things were more annoying than arriving at The London Stores and discovering the papers has been delayed, usually due to issues with the railway line from London, some 750 miles south. Usually it was raining but Mr McKay at the shop would always have a refreshing cup of tea, while I waited. It is difficult to explain these circumstances even to other adults, the idea of such a separation from “real life” on the UK mainland, difficult to comprehend, even if it was around just 50 years ago. But I’ve never forgotten “The London Stores”, thankfully remaining in business and with substantially better parking than in the olden days. And of course, newspapers arrive early in the day, though in far fewer quantities than in days of yore! The Kinlochbervie area in Sutherland is no longer a communications black hole.

 

As for ship brokers Braemar Plc, their share price has certainly been lacking some lustre this year, doing quite a lot of meaningless messing around and failing to establish any confident suggestion of direction. It is certainly the case where below 210p (Red) would now present concern, theoretically capable of triggering reversals down to an initial 175 with our secondary, if broken, an eventual 120p and hopefully a rebound.

The company would need experience gains above 281p (Blue) to give some solid evidence the share price intends enter a growth cycle, allowing for gains to an impressive initial 437 with our secondary, if bettered, at 554p and capable of challenging the previous all time highs!

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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
11:44:12PM	BRENT	6813
11:47:39PM	GOLD	3478.79	3437	3418	3394	3458	3490	3495	3520	3464	‘cess
11:50:35PM	FTSE	9187.7
11:53:30PM	STOX50	5355.3
11:55:36PM	GERMANY	23993
11:57:39PM	US500	6458.6	6449	6443	6430	6463	6481	6492	6506	6467
11:59:59PM	DOW	45506
11:03:04PM	NASDAQ	23403.2
11:05:13PM	JAPAN	42346

 

1/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9196 points. Change of 0.1%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,290,341,623 a change of -43.81%

29/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9187 points. Change of -0.31%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,855,483,777 a change of 30.98%

28/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9216 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,470,443,849 a change of -4.77%

27/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9255 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,694,536,884 a change of -52.24%

26/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9265 points. Change of -0.6%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,830,321,527 a change of 125.64%

22/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9321 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,356,702,954 a change of 17.66%

21/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9309 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,702,661,970 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:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 1825 Percentage Change: + 2.07% Day High: 1843 Day Low: 1806

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LSE:GENL Genel. Close Mid-Price: 69.3 Percentage Change: + 6.78% Day High: 70.8 Day Low: 65.9

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 431 Percentage Change: + 1.96% Day High: 434.4 Day Low: 429

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#BrentFutures #DAX   Our absurd idea to solve the UK’s economic woes is starting to feel less silly by the day. With ‘Rachel from Accounts’ thinking charging homeowners a windfall tax on the perceived value of property, along with a tranche of other daft capital asset ideas, our concept of returning to slavery starts to make some sense. If every illegal immigrant in the last year was fined “just” £1,000,000 for having the stupidity to visit the UK, the Treasury could suddenly adopt a debt of around of around £28Bn for this years arrivals alone. All these people could be sold off, to work away their indentured debt which, at minimum wage levels, should take each one around 9 years unless they opt to pay for food or whatever.

This is where slavery becomes attractive, local councils doubtless embracing the idea of folk who can pick up litter, remove graffiti, fill holes in the ground, all the sort of thing which councils are supposed to do anyway! But a council, with around 1,000 indentured slaves, would quickly boast about the £1bn debt they now own…

 

Okay, we’re a little bit left wing on this subject, both abhorring unbridled immigration and also the concept of “minimum wage”, feeling this latter has been adopted as a way of keeping wage rates low, rather than producing the perceived “safety net” folk think it means.

To explain, back in the day when the “minimum wage” was introduced, we were employing 28 retail staff and our oil company pressured retailers to pay staff a fair living wage. To be honest, the oil company also introduced a change in profit percentage to allow retailers to actually pay their staff. We were in a rather different position, having eschewed the meagre profit from selling petrol as the driving force, instead constantly working hard to maximise profit from other areas, whether it was from the shop or from seasonal junk being sold in the forecourt. At one point, we even developed selling a line in “river rocks”, collected every weekend from a drive into the Scottish countryside!

Our staff, understandably, were somewhat against their hourly rate being reduced to match the proposed “minimum wage” so we declined the pressure from the oil company but cheerfully accepts the increase in fuel margins!

The issue with our retail sites came from McDonalds, Sainsbury, and a single Esso station, each paying hourly rates we decided to beat. We wanted good staff and we didn’t intend to compete on wages, so ensured we were the best with probably the most attractive working situations. In plain English, we treated our staff the way we prefer to be treated ourselves, the attitude reciprocated. Generally, any bad apples were quickly highlighted by our team, concerned if anyone was rocking the boat. It wasn’t unknown for a potential new hire making their way to the interview office, a staff member discretely drawing a finger across their throat behind them. This often made interviewing easier…

 

Natwest, the originator of the “clown sector” moniker for the banking industry, has entered a cycle which suggests weakness below 505p shall trigger reversals to an initial 489p, a potential fake bounce, and if broken an eventual potential bottom at 464p. The danger comes as we don’t regard 464p as a “bottom”, suspecting a longer term drift down to an eventual 410p shall prove possible, if the 464p level breaks. Visually, a visit to 410 makes more sense than a sober politician.

 

In the unlikely event things intend go right for NWG share price, above 527 should next trigger recovery to an initial 533p with our secondary, if beaten, an eventual 550p.  Neither ambition is attractive, instead leaning to an eventual share price being trapped between the 5 and 6 quid levels for a while until a reasonable excuse is given to break free.

 

 

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
1:27:22AM	BRENT	6740.7	6475	5954	5292	6835	6848	6988	7158	6641
1:29:17AM	GOLD	3447.76
1:32:28AM	FTSE	9192.7
1:35:19AM	STOX50	5356.7
1:46:09AM	GERMANY	23934.4	23882	23651	23356	24072	24206	24286	24423	23980
1:49:31AM	US500	6463
1:57:52AM	DOW	45565.5
2:00:13AM	NASDAQ	23404.6
2:02:50AM	JAPAN	42087

 

29/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9187 points. Change of -0.31%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,855,483,777 a change of 30.98%

28/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9216 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,470,443,849 a change of -4.77%

27/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9255 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,694,536,884 a change of -52.24%

26/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9265 points. Change of -0.6%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,830,321,527 a change of 125.64%

22/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9321 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,356,702,954 a change of 17.66%

21/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9309 points. Change of 0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,702,661,970 a change of -40.14%

20/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9288 points. Change of 1.08%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,185,994,315 a change of -5.2%

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:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 593.5 Percentage Change: + 1.11% Day High: 599.5 Day Low: 585.5

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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey Close Mid-Price: 95.74 Percentage Change: -1.60% Day High: 97.4 Day Low: 95.84

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#Bitcoin #FTSE  It has been a strange week, Formula1’s media clickbait staff clearly still on holiday as the press are not slavishly repeating nonsense stories about drivers. This has become one of these “careful what you wish for” moments, surprised at the temptation to click on a headline which suggests Louis Hamilton has employed a media trainer for his dog… The animal was even credited on the closing titles of the Formula1 movie, having made a ‘walk on’ appearance.

Similarly, the FTSE appears to be avoiding amateur dramatics as August winds its way to a close, aside from our expectation the UK market shall discover an excuse to rewind to the level around which it started the month. Visually, the suggestion is for the need for things to rewind to around 9128.3 points, a drop ambition which feels almost impossible. As Friday is the last trading day of what has been a lacklustre month, it was a surprise to notice the value of the FTSE has managed to enter a potential disaster zone.

Below just 9207 points currently holds the threat of triggering reversal to 9184 points initially with our secondary, if broken, an amazing 9126 points, sufficiently close to the level (9128) at which the month started to justify a drum-role. If this scenario triggers, the tightest stop looks like 9237 points, the trendbreak level providing an amazing stop loss potential for quite a reasonable risk/reward scenario. Even though it’s visually a bit of a free gift and thus dangerous to trust.

 

Our alternate game plan becomes useful, if the index makes it ABOVE 9237 as this threatens to trigger a gain in the direction of an initial 9263 with our secondary, if bettered, at 9315 points. The attraction with this scenario is it would emplace the index virtually matching the highs of August, while also parking the FTSE value in a zone where a distant 9873 continues to exert an influence further down the line.

It’s absurd, both our Short & Long scenario making their own brand of logic appear sensible, with only a day of the month remaining to satisfy our warped arguments. Unsurprisingly, at time of writing, FTSE Futures are messing around at 9231 points, failing to show a bias in any direction. It is going to be an interesting day.

 

As for Bitcoin, it is proving as trustworthy as a weather reporter mingling with politicians. There may be a lot of noise but it’s clear none of them are telling the truth!

At present, the value is looking a little dodgy, below 110,250 risking triggering reversal to an initial 106,600 dollars. Our secondary, should such a level break, works out around 100,850 dollars and a return to price levels not seen for 10 weeks. Which isn’t even partially impressive.

We were quite chuffed Bitcoin managed to attain our 120,000 target level, suggested back in June when the value was at 106,000 dollars. The impression given visually is  not to be surprised if the value again tries to head up to the 120,000 level with movement above 112,670 but similar to the FTSE attitude given above, we shall not be aghast if this heads back to its prior level around $100k. Any miracle above 120k now calculates with a longer term “risk” of a visit to an astounding $138k.

 

Have a good weekend, enjoy the chaotic Grand Prix, and remember to tie your wheelie bins down as a breeze is being forecast. But we really distrust weather reporters….

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
9:59:47PM	BRENT	6763.1	6678	6637	6581	6726	6780	6818	6878	6748	‘cess
10:03:37PM	GOLD	3416.33	3367	3345	3319	3393	3423	3429	3444	3403	Success
10:34:02PM	FTSE	9222.8	9206	9181	9121	9237	9273	9295	9325	9238	‘cess
10:36:03PM	STOX50	5397.4	5373	5344	5289	5406	5429	5454	5484	5387	‘cess
10:39:29PM	GERMANY	24040.5	23970	23947	23750	24084	24204	24243	24284	24022	‘cess
10:41:49PM	US500	6502.2	6466	6451	6432	6494	6508	6524	6584	6466	‘cess
10:47:29PM	DOW	45596.4	45435	45341	45227	45560	45686	45797	46027	45545	‘cess
10:50:14PM	NASDAQ	23699.4	23513	23446	23347	23624	23708	23748	23872	23516	‘cess
10:53:13PM	JAPAN	42900	42712	42620	42483	42846	43028	43146	43484	42856	Success

 

28/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9216 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,470,443,849 a change of -4.77%

27/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9255 points. Change of -0.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,694,536,884 a change of -52.24%

26/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9265 points. Change of -0.6%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,830,321,527 a change of 125.64%

22/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9321 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,356,702,954 a change of 17.66%

21/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9309 points. Change of 0.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,702,661,970 a change of -40.14%

20/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9288 points. Change of 1.08%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,185,994,315 a change of -5.2%

19/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9189 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,525,328,498 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:TW. Taylor Wimpey Close Mid-Price: 97.3 Percentage Change: -1.40% Day High: 99.24 Day Low: 97.16

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