Rentokil Initial Plc (LSE:RTO) looks positive 

#Brent #SP500 Given our cottage dates back to 1832, it should come as no surprise we’ve a traditional boiler room, the final resting place of items which fall into the “that’ll be useful one day” category. Over the years, the actual boiler has gotten smaller and smaller with the current super economical oil boiler being smaller than a bedside table. Unfortunately, a side effect of this boiler shrinkage has been to allow more room to store junk, unfinished cans of paint, old motorcycle crash helmets, even bath towels which were deemed unfashionable. And of course, there’s the time my wife discovered big vacuum clothing bags which shrink down to satisfy any naive belief waistlines shall someday retreat to those of 30+ years ago.

As we’d been considering an air-pump heating system*** which would ensue the oil fired boiler being removed, my wife decided it was time to give the boiler room a complete clear out as she was obviously salivating at the prospect of even more room to indulge her secret habit of hoarding.  After an hour or so, she yelled for attention. Her colourful crash helmet, sitting unused on a shelf for 10 years, was thrust toward me, the interior torn and the padding shredded. It appeared a mouse had discovered the ideal materials to build a nest, my wife utterly furious. Disregarding the fact a motorcycle helmet shouldn’t be used beyond 5 years, I’d never quite appreciated how proud she’d been of it. Once she bought a “proper” motorcycle, I was to learn choosing a helmet with a woman was every bit as painful as going shoe shopping. Once comfort had been established, the look and paintwork of a helmet was crucial. My own choice had always been a simple white helmet as the only thing which mattered, after safety and features, was the level of comfort!

It appeared a mouse had just murdered her memories of lapping Donnington Park, Nurburgring, Knockhill, the time we toured Europe, every annual ‘race’ around Scotlands coast, or the voluntary advanced training we gave other motorcyclists on Wednesday evenings. After a mouse free period of many years, it was clearly time to once again enrich Rentokil by ordering their range of deadly solutions for a mouse problem. With exquisite timing, we’d noticed just a few days ago, Rentokil had increased their dividend this year.

When we reviewed Rentokil last October, we’d given a target ambition at 658p, something achieved in June this year but critically, the share price has not yet managed to actually close a session above 658p. We regard this as an important trigger level for the future with closure above this point or, intraday trades above the recent high at 664p being capable of travel up to an initial  trading 693p with secondary, if exceeded, at an impressive future 727p and another new all time high. Importantly, despite the share exceeding our 658 target on several occasions, the chart shows the share as stalling at current levels while it matches the highs from 2021 and only when solid confirmation of this glass ceiling being exceeded shall we feel comfortable believing a visit to 727p has become viable.

If things intend go a little bit wrong for Rentokil, below 584p looks problematic, potentially triggering reversal to 553 initially with secondary, if broken, down at 516p and hopefully yet another bounce.

 

*** Now we’ve read about air-pump heating, all plans were cancelled, the concept impractical due to winter temperatures here in Argyll. Instead, I’m to rebuild my hydro-electric system but this time, make a greater allowance for excessive water flow!

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
9:54:54PM BRENT 8569 8490 8455 8389 8550 8603 8617 8663 8563
9:57:21PM GOLD 1936.03
9:59:18PM FTSE 7568.2
10:01:21PM STOX50 4350.6
10:19:43PM GERMANY 15991
10:21:49PM US500 4520.1 4484 4471 4454 4502 4522 4540 4562 4505
10:24:01PM DOW 35477.5
10:26:05PM NASDAQ 15409.9
10:28:26PM JAPAN 32424 Success

 

7/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7554 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,501,608,401 a change of -4.09%
4/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7564 points. Change of 0.46%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,650,960,164 a change of -42.72%
3/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7529 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,373,701,191 a change of 36.1%
2/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7561 points. Change of -1.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,683,211,781 a change of 12.76%
1/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7667 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,153,367,086 a change of -3.72%
31/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7699 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,313,676,670 a change of -54.58%
28/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7694 points. Change of 0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,496,592,538 a change of 26.18%

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:NG. National Glib Close Mid-Price: 965.4 Percentage Change: -1.45% Day High: 978.8 Day Low: 963

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 209.5 Percentage Change: + 1.45% Day High: 211.2 Day Low: 205.2

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Natwest Group (LSE:NWG) and a miserable shirt.

#Gold #SP500  It took a Hawaiian shirt to reveal just how miserable the UK has become! Attending a late lunch on Sunday, the weather was pretty good and a particularly loud shirt presented itself in my wardrobe, an ideal garment for an sunny outdoors event. From the eyes upon me, it felt like I was wearing Chippendales garb to a vicars tea party. The uniform du jour amongst the blokes was either a white shirt, a white t-shirt, or if daring, a grey t-shirt with a daring grey outline of something. Amongst woman, the dress code was similar with only blue striped t-shirts offering the chance for individuality, this proving to be the style of choice for roughly half the attendees.

While I shall admit I wore the thing “for a laugh”, the real surprise was appreciating how drab our standard dress code has become, few folk willing to simply have fun by being a bit different. Over the years, I’ve become used to being ‘looked at’ when across on the mainland and choosing to wear a wide brimmed hat in the rain. These devices are truly clever, capable of keeping the wearer dry, yet folk in the city display some difficulty in handling such a radical concept, doubtless preferring their choice of getting wet. One standout event from the lunch came, when a couple of blokes asked where I’d got the shirt. Neither was overwhelmed at my answer, doubtless expecting a tale of shopping in Honolulu, rather than the true answer; “ten quid on eBay!”.

If only Natwest would make an effort to cheer people up…

 

The bank share price continues to underwhelm the market, making a brief attempt to escape the immediate downtrend, one which was quashed after just three sessions. Worse, as circled on the chart, the share price executed a GapUp/GapDown manoeuvre, one which looks perfectly capable of promoting reversals down to 202p eventually. Thus far, the uptrend since 2020 appears to be respected but, if this share follows our usual rules, no-one should be surprised if 202p makes itself known as a price level, a point from which we’d hope for a solid bounce. There’s a slight chance for a recoil at an initial 223 but realistically, once below 230p we suspect a visit to 202p shall become almost preordained.

 

At present, the price requires exceed 249 to hopefully trigger share price recovery to an initial 260 with secondary, if bettered, at a potential 274p and some hesitation. Unfortunately, for now we fear the worst.

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
4:29:04PM BRENT 8588.6
4:31:09PM GOLD 1942.41 1925 1894 1832 1955 1947 1949 1953 1939
4:34:00PM FTSE 7510.8 7615
4:36:24PM STOX50 4303.33 4306
8:44:30PM GERMANY 15833.9 15878
8:46:59PM US500 4477.4 4473 4462 4436 4497 4543 4581 4641 4504
8:50:00PM DOW 35054 35278
8:52:55PM NASDAQ 15280.1 15333
9:01:08PM JAPAN 31949 31996

 

4/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7564 points. Change of 0.46%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,650,960,164 a change of -42.72%
3/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7529 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,373,701,191 a change of 36.1%
2/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7561 points. Change of -1.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,683,211,781 a change of 12.76%
1/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7667 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,153,367,086 a change of -3.72%
31/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7699 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,313,676,670 a change of -54.58%
28/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7694 points. Change of 0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,496,592,538 a change of 26.18%
27/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7692 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,526,466,026 a change of 81.26%

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:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 558.4 Percentage Change: + 0.04% Day High: 560.6 Day Low: 546

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LSE:GENL Genel Close Mid-Price: 93.7 Percentage Change: -4.19% Day High: 97.9 Day Low: 93

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 979.6 Percentage Change: + 0.72% Day High: 978.4 Day Low: 964.4

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LSE:ODX Omega Diags Close Mid-Price: 2.35 Percentage Change: -4.08% Day High: 2.45 Day Low: 2.3

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 206.5 Percentage Change: + 7.44% Day High: 205.9 Day Low: 192.95

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LSE:SRP Serco Close Mid-Price: 157.7 Percentage Change: -2.35% Day High: 162.3 Day Low: 156.3

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 8.5 Percentage Change: + ##.##% Day High: 10.5 Day Low: 3.75

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Our world famed FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX)

#FTSE #GOLD It’s probably safe to say we dislike August more than any other month on the calendar. Firstly, the Formula 1 circus takes a holiday, thus ensuring weekends are spent doing DIY tasks without any adequate excuse to dodge them. Secondly, the first week or two generally brings monsoon conditions to the West of Scotland, where we’re based. And third, the markets become quite strange, sometimes volatile but generally capable of undoing the damage before the schools go back in England.

Our suspicion traditionally encompasses the nice, professional, folk who run things going away for the month and things are left in the hands of a bunch of interns. These people are simply told not to break anything and make sure everything is put back the way it was given. Thus, while the professionals are queuing at Tracy’s Full English Breakfast in Benidorm or Blackpool, things can go a little crazy on the markets. But in the absence of justified movement, either by world events or company news, things tend return to normal by the end of August.

In other words, it’s August and all bets for sanity are off the table!

 

The FTSE quickly reserved its place in the asylum this week, spending the first three days of the month falling off a cliff. Or did it?

From our perspective, the visit to 7437 points on Thursday was arithmetically interesting, almost exactly bouncing from our secondary drop target. If our cynical suspicion about August entering the realm of fake movements, we’d therefore hope for a bounce capable of continuing. This creates a situation where above 7527 points should aim for surprise recovery to an initial 7547 points with secondary, if beaten, at 7581 points.

This secondary level risks making the coming week fairly interesting as should the market exceed it, a recovery cycle to 7674 calculates as possible, effectively putting the FTSE back to where it was at the start of the month. Should our recovery criteria trigger, the tightest stop loss looks like a modest 7487 points.

 

Our alternate scenario, if everything intends stay wrong for a while longer allows for weakness below 7435 points to trigger reversal down to 7385 points initially with our secondary, if broken, down at 7337 points and hopefully a market bottom. By way of a teaser, we’ve shown on the chart our expectations, should 7337 break and it’s a hopeful bottom down at 7238 points.

Have a good weekend.

If we can get our tractor running, we’re going to experiment with timed laps of the lawn. (Only kidding, it’s truly frightening how small the garden becomes, when the tractor hits 13mph. Panic braking ensues as winching the thing out of the stream counts as an epic fail.)

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:12:56PM BRENT 8511.2 8218 8193 8062 8298 8590 8786 9338 8328
10:16:08PM GOLD 1933.69 1932 1930 1916 1939 1972 2017 2058 1954
10:18:56PM FTSE 7536.9 7437 7310 7172 7553 7563 7611 7669 7528 Success
10:22:22PM STOX50 4312.5 4275 4269 4195 4313 4330 4353 4379 4304 ‘cess
10:24:33PM GERMANY 15904 15800 15765 15701 15894 16018 16079 16172 15951 ‘cess
10:27:54PM US500 4503.7 4482 4463 4441 4524 4523 4539 4557 4499 ‘cess
10:30:55PM DOW 35227.5 35112 35068 34973 35216 35351 35466 35584 35231 ‘cess
10:33:23PM NASDAQ 15361.3 15247 15174 15077 15335 15465 15487 15567 15077 ‘cess
10:36:26PM JAPAN 31913 31675 31517 30861 31862 32376 32611 32923 32096 Success
3/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7529 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,373,701,191 a change of 36.1%
2/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7561 points. Change of -1.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,683,211,781 a change of 12.76%
1/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7667 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,153,367,086 a change of -3.72%
31/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7699 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,313,676,670 a change of -54.58%
28/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7694 points. Change of 0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,496,592,538 a change of 26.18%
27/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7692 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,526,466,026 a change of 81.26%
26/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7676 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,152,321,908 a change of -7.74%

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:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 423.7 Percentage Change: + 0.38% Day High: 437.7 Day Low: 410.8

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LSE:BT.A British Telecom Close Mid-Price: 113.95 Percentage Change: -4.20% Day High: 115 Day Low: 111.8

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo Close Mid-Price: 558.2 Percentage Change: -4.09% Day High: 573.6 Day Low: 555

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LSE:GENL Genel Close Mid-Price: 97.8 Percentage Change: -2.98% Day High: 100.8 Day Low: 95

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LSE:HIK Hikma Close Mid-Price: 2060 Percentage Change: -0.72% Day High: 2164 Day Low: 2042

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance Close Mid-Price: 122.5 Percentage Change: -2.00% Day High: 126 Day Low: 123.5

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LSE:NG. National Glib Close Mid-Price: 972.6 Percentage Change: -2.33% Day High: 991.8 Day Low: 970.6

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LSE:SPT Spirent Comms. Close Mid-Price: 153.1 Percentage Change: + 0.66% Day High: 156.2 Day Low: 148.4

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LSE:TLW Tullow. Close Mid-Price: 34.72 Percentage Change: + 2.12% Day High: 35.28 Day Low: 32.82

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Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc (LSE:PRD), they’ll be back!

#Gold #Nasdaq  We typically take a glance at the company website, when being asked to comment on a share. In the case of Predator, we immediately fell foul of one of our pet hates, the company front page claiming they are a “fossil fuel” company. As neither oil nor gas are actually fossil fuels, this presents an immediate “hanging offence”. At its most simplistic, just how many dinosaurs had to die to create oil, the second most common liquid on our entire planet?

And why are oil explorers not finding their extraction equipment constantly blocked with the remains of brontosaurus… In todays politically correct climate, such semantics may be important in case someone is offended by such an erroneous “fossil fuel” claim. Then again, it’s probably more acceptable than using “dead flowers and veg” as the reason for the abundance of oil, a resource which we keep being told will run out, yet a resource which keeps regenerating. Prior to the Scottish Independence referendum in 2014, the UK Govt rounded up plenty of experts to warn the people of Scotland oil was due to start running out within 10 years. With the UK Govt releasing a record 170 new licences this week for the North Sea, we can only guess at the levels of dinosaur genocide which occurred deep below the sea.

 

Now we’d dealt with the “fossil” problem, the rest of Predator’s website appears to be quite informative, giving hope for the future. Their involvement in Trinidad was a surprise as we’d been unaware the area lies within the Eastern Venezualan Basin, the 2nd largest source for oil in the world after Saudi Arabia. However, some of their recent share price movements have proved, to our eye, a little bit iffy and very little work is required to provoke some price reversals.

Below 11.3p now risks triggering reversals to an initial 9.1p with our longer term secondary calculation, should the initial target break, working out at 5.3p. We’d hope, should the 5.3p level make an appearance, to see the share price bounce, if only because we cannot calculate below such a number!

 

However, oil prices appear determined to rise slightly and perhaps this shall have another positive effect on Predator. The current situation suggests movement above 13.6p could trigger price recovery to an initial 15.1p with secondary, if beaten, at 17.6p. Closure above 17.6p should take the price into a brave new world as some impressive long term potentials will make themselves known.

Hopefully this share shall prove worth watching.

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:14:48PM BRENT 8333 Success
10:17:40PM GOLD 1934.33 1932 1930 1916 1939 1948 1954 1960 1939 ‘cess
10:21:39PM FTSE 7543.9 Success
10:25:41PM STOX50 4323.4 Ditto
11:00:37PM GERMANY 15984.7 Ditto
11:06:33PM US500 4512.3 Ditto
11:10:41PM DOW 35306 Ditto
11:13:12PM NASDAQ 15377.3 15324 15265 15084 15430 15681 15771 15920 15573 Ditto
11:15:48PM JAPAN 32296 Ditto

 

2/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7561 points. Change of -1.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,683,211,781 a change of 12.76%
1/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7667 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,153,367,086 a change of -3.72%
31/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7699 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,313,676,670 a change of -54.58%
28/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7694 points. Change of 0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,496,592,538 a change of 26.18%
27/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7692 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,526,466,026 a change of 81.26%
26/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7676 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,152,321,908 a change of -7.74%
25/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7691 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,500,914,113 a change of -15.2%

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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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CASP Caspian** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:SPT Spirent Comms** **

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LSE:AV. Aviva Close Mid-Price: 378.9 Percentage Change: -1.92% Day High: 384.5 Day Low: 377.9

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LSE:BT.A British Telecom Close Mid-Price: 118.95 Percentage Change: -2.78% Day High: 121.65 Day Low: 118.3

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LSE:CASP Caspian Close Mid-Price: 3 Percentage Change: -4.76% Day High: 3.15 Day Low: 3

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LSE:PMG Parkmead. Close Mid-Price: 19.85 Percentage Change: + 10.28% Day High: 19 Day Low: 18

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LSE:SPT Spirent Comms Close Mid-Price: 152.1 Percentage Change: -9.46% Day High: 166 Day Low: 149.6

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hVIVO Plc (LSE:HVO) and the injection of optimism

#FTSE #Stoxx50  We’ve been ‘enjoying’ a battle with a practical joke grand-daughter. Somehow, she discovered the secret codes to systematically remove the beeps from each function of our microwave, claiming she hates electronic beeps. Another object of her humour was the kitchen Ninja cooker thing, a device which has an entire electronic choir embedded, along with our dishwasher. Finally today, the little monster was shipped home, gleefully saying “good luck finding the beeps” as she dispensed the usual hugs, doubtless thinking we’d plead with her to undo the witchcraft at the end of August holiday weekend.

Little did she know we also harboured a secret. To reset each device, it just needed unplugged for a few seconds, the beeps once again assuming their rightful place in the kitchen symphonic background. Quite how she’s going to cope, discovering the alarm tones in her phone have been replaced with AC/DC music samples, should be interesting. And as she’s now a teenager, this battle could continue for the next 5 years. Or if she follows her mother, the war of elaborate jokes will never end.

Rather neatly, this brings us to our immediate subject, hVivo Plc, not because they’re a joke, quite the opposite. But when a bunch of emails arrived asking us to update our outlook as we hadn’t looked at them since last year and our target had been achieved earlier this year. We thought it a joke, ‘cos we try and avoid “bunching” share topics and discussing Futura Medical one day, then covering another company in the same sector the next day risks being about as boring as listening to someone else talk about their illness.

However, hVivo Plc certainly achieved our initial target in February, so we can justify another look at their share price.

The situation now is fairly interesting, the share breaking through the downtrend since 2021 and actually closing above the trend. This probably explains the emails received!

Currently, above 18.25p calculates with the potential of a lift to 22.75 next. Our longer term secondary, if such a level is exceeded, works out at 28p. While quite a lot of enthusiasm is possible for the initial target, we’d prefer seeing the share price close a session above 21.6p before being comfortable about the potentials of our secondary – and beyond. For reasons which escape us, share prices seem to feel it’s important for a price to close above a level which defined a trend before displaying solid acceleration. In the case of hVivo, the trend defining 23.25p of February this year also had a closing price at 21.62p and this is the number to beat. And yes, we agree, it is very strange…

 

If everything intends go horribly wrong, below 13.5 risks being quite troubling, risking a visit to 6.4p and hopefully, an ultimate bottom. Visually, it seems unlikely.

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
9:51:31PM BRENT 8566
9:54:10PM GOLD 1943.88 ‘cess
9:57:29PM FTSE 7657.1 7656 7646 7620 7665 7697 7713 7734 7665
9:59:34PM STOX50 4407 4399 4378 4340 4434 4441 4453 4471 4417 Success
10:01:52PM GERMANY 16241.2 Success
10:04:14PM US500 4574.5 ‘cess
10:33:15PM DOW 35621.5
10:35:09PM NASDAQ 15710.8 Success
10:37:21PM JAPAN 33204

 

1/08/2023 FTSE Closed at 7667 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,153,367,086 a change of -3.72%
31/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7699 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,313,676,670 a change of -54.58%
28/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7694 points. Change of 0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,496,592,538 a change of 26.18%
27/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7692 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,526,466,026 a change of 81.26%
26/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7676 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,152,321,908 a change of -7.74%
25/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7691 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,500,914,113 a change of -15.2%
24/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7678 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,307,369,816 a change of 18.72%

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:CBX Cellular Goods** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IPF International Personal Finance** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **

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LSE:CBX Cellular Goods. Close Mid-Price: 0.8 Percentage Change: + 6.67% Day High: 0.88 Day Low: 0.75

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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 139.95 Percentage Change: + 1.38% Day High: 140.5 Day Low: 137.65

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo Close Mid-Price: 591 Percentage Change: -4.40% Day High: 603.8 Day Low: 563.4

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LSE:HIK Hikma. Close Mid-Price: 2105 Percentage Change: + 0.77% Day High: 2138 Day Low: 2086

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 654.9 Percentage Change: + 1.33% Day High: 665.6 Day Low: 649.9

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 121.5 Percentage Change: + 4.74% Day High: 125 Day Low: 118

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LSE:PMG Parkmead. Close Mid-Price: 18 Percentage Change: + 7.46% Day High: 18.75 Day Low: 16.35

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Futura Medical Plc (LSE:FUM) worth watching?

#Gold #SP500  A day when you learn something new is never wasted and the discovery that Futura Plc’s (specialists in Transdermal Drug Delivery technology) reason for existence is actually glaringly obvious. The word Transdermal threw a bit of a curved ball but, it means absorbing drugs via the skin. It could be a cream, it could be a slow release patch, but this is all that’s meant by the term. Doubtless the mechanism involved is fairly complex and personally, their innovation cannot come fast enough.

As someone with a personal axe to grind regarding medicines, a combination of daily chemotherapy pills, daily Diabetes T2 pills, blood pressure pills, and an astonishing number of pills given to deal with the side effects of the core pills, leads to an utter distaste for medical regimes. Once a month, after collecting 28 days worth of drugs, there’s a depressing job of settling down and spending the next hour or so, filling four pill dispensers with morning and evening drugs. It’s depressing, ‘cos each and every pill reminds of the illness it treats as, trust me, you don’t squeeze a pill out of its packaging and thank it for keeping leukaemia at bay.

 

After reading about Futura’s activities, a future where slapping on a slow release ‘patch’ seems quite attractive though perhaps, in my case, I’d require rather a lot of the things. One thing which proves infuriating is the packaging standard for medicines. There isn’t one! Instead, each company tries hard to outdo the others by making pills difficult to remove from film wrapping. Asking the pharmacist if it was possible to just order a jar of each pill type received a blank stare. My dog, on the other hand, needed antibiotics last week and we were given a jar with a course of 18 pills, each of which needed concealed in peanut butter to fool her into taking them.

 

Personal grudges aside, Futura (who probably love the current reboot of Futurama on telly) are currently proving fairly interesting as their share price need only exceed 62p to hopefully trigger the price into a cycle with some gains. Initially, we can calculate an initial 73p as possible with our secondary, if beaten, working out at 91p and some possible hesitation. As the chart below shows, their share price has actually proven fairly stable over the years, lacking the warning visuals implying over-enthusiastic internet chatrooms have been infecting price movements.

After so saying, future price closure above 91p is almost certain to dump the price into a region, where a future 154p calculates as very possible.

 

Should things intend go wrong, the price needs below 32p to cause trouble, looking capable of provoking reversal to an initial 17p with secondary, if broken, at a bottom around 9.6p.

 

 


FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
9:57:16PM BRENT 8537.9 Success
10:11:13PM GOLD 1965.16 1950 1943 1934 1963 1972 1975 1986 1964 ‘cess
10:13:41PM FTSE 7699.5
10:17:33PM STOX50 4472.5 ‘cess
10:20:51PM GERMANY 16467 ‘cess
10:23:04PM US500 4591.9 4572 4566 4557 4585 4594 4599 4608 4578 ‘cess
10:25:40PM DOW 35577
10:28:16PM NASDAQ 15768.3
10:31:13PM JAPAN 33297

 

31/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7699 points. Change of 0.06%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,313,676,670 a change of -54.58%
28/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7694 points. Change of 0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,496,592,538 a change of 26.18%
27/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7692 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,526,466,026 a change of 81.26%
26/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7676 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,152,321,908 a change of -7.74%
25/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7691 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,500,914,113 a change of -15.2%
24/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7678 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,307,369,816 a change of 18.72%
21/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7663 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,470,558,321 a change of -16.97%

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:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:ASC Asos** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **

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LSE:CAR Carclo Close Mid-Price: 14.22 Percentage Change: -1.39% Day High: 14.95 Day Low: 13.55

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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 138.05 Percentage Change: + 2.87% Day High: 139.35 Day Low: 134.5

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 171.1 Percentage Change: + 3.60% Day High: 171.85 Day Low: 164.95

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LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group. Close Mid-Price: 5756 Percentage Change: + 0.35% Day High: 5782 Day Low: 5714

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper Close Mid-Price: 12 Percentage Change: -2.04% Day High: 12.2 Day Low: 11.7

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 735.8 Percentage Change: + 2.19% Day High: 737.6 Day Low: 714.2

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LSE:TLW Tullow. Close Mid-Price: 34.48 Percentage Change: + 3.67% Day High: 35.04 Day Low: 33

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Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY), a bigger picture

Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY)  It’s sometimes said a journey of a 1,000 miles starts with a single step. This continues to be an issue with the retail banks in the UK (and Europe) as they’ve not learned how to walk, let alone lace their shoes. The grim reality the market still faces has been the painful lack of recovery since the Banking Crash of 2009. This is always an issue as did the crash occur when shares hit bottom or did it occur at the end of 2007, when shares started to describe lower lows? Our preference is to regard 2009 and the point when share prices hit a bottom as the crash though, at times, it feels like what happened was a real crash and the patients remain severely injured.

However, when reviewing Lloyds, it is easy to forget the really Big Picture, perhaps sharing some sympathy for those who’ve seen the value of their little nest egg decline from above £10 a share back in 1999 to a current 45.12p.

As the chart below highlights, it’s not a pretty sight, making one question why the banks are failing to do anything to give shareholder value. While the current policy of ‘Debanking’ clients for their political or social views is perhaps generating headlines, it’s doing nothing to sort a rot which actually started 24 years ago for Lloyds.

 

 

Our immediate perspective on Lloyds allows us to generate a dubious argument favouring a future top of 110p, should the correct volume of pixy dust be sprinkled over the share. All Lloyds needs do is take the first step, one which is quite easy!

Currently, above 47.3p should generate price recovery to an initial 49.3p, not the most ambitious step for the share to make. However, should 49.3p somehow be exceeded, our secondary is now at 56.5p and a price level which demonstrates a reasonable higher high, giving a solid suggestion an escape from the misery of the most recent Covid-19 crash is around the corner. Surprisingly, this 56.5p almost exactly matches the share price level on the day the markets decided to again trash the banks and we believe this shall prove to be a price level, where closure above 56.5p should be capable of broadcasting a solid change in the banks prospects.

We can draw lines until the cows come home but, for the banks, we think only a record of “higher highs” shall kick share prices into life. Therefore, with closure above our 56.5p target, we will feel happy speculating a long term haul to 110 has commenced.

Unfortunately, as the chart above since 1998 demonstrates, 110p isn’t terribly impressive!

 

 

 


FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
9:57:13PM BRENT 8437.4 8278 8258 8196 8380 8443 8457 8515 8315
9:59:58PM GOLD 1958.92 1956
10:03:05PM FTSE 7672 7686
10:05:10PM STOX50 4463.3 4448
10:06:47PM GERMANY 16459 16300 16262 16186 16352 16493 16520 16594 16422
10:09:56PM US500 4581.4 4574
10:11:43PM DOW 35438.5 35477
10:14:00PM NASDAQ 15741 15715
10:16:10PM JAPAN 33120 33002

 

28/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7694 points. Change of 0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,496,592,538 a change of 26.18%
27/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7692 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,526,466,026 a change of 81.26%
26/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7676 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,152,321,908 a change of -7.74%
25/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7691 points. Change of 0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,500,914,113 a change of -15.2%
24/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7678 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,307,369,816 a change of 18.72%
21/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7663 points. Change of 0.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,470,558,321 a change of -16.97%
20/07/2023 FTSE Closed at 7646 points. Change of 0.76%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,384,109,244 a change of -16.08%

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:AML Aston Martin. Close Mid-Price: 378.4 Percentage Change: + 1.67% Day High: 389.2 Day Low: 371.8

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 646.8 Percentage Change: + 0.70% Day High: 655.3 Day Low: 643.8

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LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group. Close Mid-Price: 5736 Percentage Change: + 0.35% Day High: 5754 Day Low: 5654

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 9.25 Percentage Change: + 8.82% Day High: 9.6 Day Low: 8.5

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 193.3 Percentage Change: + 1.95% Day High: 194.65 Day Low: 186.45

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