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#FTSE #GOLD Thanksgiving Thursday went exactly as expected, the FTSE almost managing to close 2 whole points above Wednesdays close. Over the years, we’ve learned the best thing to do on US Thanksgiving is anything which doesn’t involved the markets. We spent the day gazing out at the sea, a weather warning suggesting 75 mph winds were pointed directly at us. The wheelie bins were tied down, paving slabs placed on the lids of garden storage, and some rocks added to the floor of the plastic garden shed, because we simply do not trust it.

Outside, at the emergency moorings, two ferries have tied up, meaning only another 2 of the four ferries are operating the route to the mainland. Which is a journey we really cannot recommend in choppy weather. We once had a vehicle with air suspension, making the 20 minute journey extremely unpleasant as the car exaggerated every single ferry movement, provoking a terrible case of sea sickness. But of course, Thanksgiving 27th November wasn’t exactly scary, the Met Office attempt at Clickbait headlines fizzling out as the strongest wind (so far) has been a gust of just 42mph with quite unpleasant rain. In other words, Thursday turned into a normal Tuesday, a dog walk in the forest being an easy decision in the race to beat darkness encroaching.

Chatting to my brother on the phone during the dog walk, he’s a couple of hundred miles further north with 5 inches of snow, by 4pm he was in complete darkness while we’d sufficient daylight to make our way back to the car. It’s amazing the variation in available light the stupid change of the clocks to “winter misery time” makes.

But to remain on the US Thanksgiving theme, the notion of a national turkey holiday grows more attractive annually as there’s a hole in the UK Stock Exchange winter holiday calendar and adopting this ridiculously hyped festival from the USA wouldn’t do any harm, synchronising the reality of the US & UK markets doing sod all on Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, having never taking the time to discover what the turkey massacre is about, the idea of a forced “sit down” with friends and family doesn’t sound the worst idea.

But to return to Friday and the hope the markets shall rebound from their enforced slumber on Thursday, above 9700 points should now provoke movement to an initial 9760 points Our secondary, if bettered, calculates at a silly sounding 9941 points and some hesitation. While our secondary makes a lot of numeric sense, the jump seems rather large by UK standards and very liable to take until Christmas. Or so we think. But, from our perspective, there are several arguments proposing further “proper” gains on the FTSE.

Should things intend go turkey shaped, below 9658 risks promoting reversal to an initial 9623 with our secondary, if broken, at 9590 points. Our suspicion is the market intends head up, any long position needing a stop around 9658 points.

Have a good weekend. Pity the penultimate GP of the season is Qatar as it will probably be a procession of cars, giving a boring race on a circuit where overtaking is difficult. A bit like Monaco on steroids, a race which only happens due to the money involved.

 

 

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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
10:42:56PM	BRENT	6290.2	6150	6027		6218	6298	6379		6211
10:58:56PM	GOLD	4156.89	4137	4131		4163	4174	4181		4148
11:18:45PM	FTSE	9704.6	9656	9628		9684	9707	9718		9681
11:23:01PM	STOX50	5652.1	5585	5565		5625	5665	5693		5639
11:25:10PM	GERMANY	23777.1	23693	23639		23765	23840	23938		23692
11:35:32PM	US500	6821.7	6772	6756		6796	6832	6890		6807
11:37:57PM	DOW	48477.7	47386	47314		47450	47575	47619		47444
11:40:51PM	NASDAQ	25260	25051	25000		25167	25305	25322		25215
11:42:41PM	JAPAN	50068	49919	49756		50072	49914	50430		49972	‘cess

 

27/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9693 points. Change of 0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,026,345,245 a change of -20.1%

26/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9691 points. Change of 0.85%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,542,003,610 a change of 18.39%

25/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9609 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,370,501,929 a change of -51.58%

24/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9534 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 13,156,523,796 a change of 87.85%

21/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9539 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,003,826,108 a change of 23.05%

20/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9527 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,692,009,331 a change of -8.32%

19/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9507 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,208,622,594 a change of -9.04%

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:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 429.95 Percentage Change: + 1.66% Day High: 430.9 Day Low: 421.45

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 700 Percentage Change: + 2.12% Day High: 699 Day Low: 687.5

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 96.6 Percentage Change: + 2.99% Day High: 96.32 Day Low: 93.42

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 632.4 Percentage Change: + 2.26% Day High: 633.8 Day Low: 618.8

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1666 Percentage Change: + 1.28% Day High: 1666 Day Low: 1632

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#Stoxx #Germany One of our guilty pleasures is watching a telly program called Landman, a well produced drama about oil extraction in the USA and starring Billy Bob Thornton and now, Demi Moore. I patiently explained to my wife during the first episode I’d no idea who the actress was but her speech to the collected oilmen was powerful. After giving me “the look”, she questioned how I was unable to recognise the character – again. Throughout our married life, she’s never understood why I’ll remember the role an actress played but pay absolutely no attention to her looks. Thus, Deadpool’s enduring love interest managed to star in “Sheriff Country”, awaiting my wife triumphantly announcing I’d no idea who she was.

To be fair, our daughter was recently interviewed on TV and I also didn’t recognise her. Which was a bit weird, perhaps her posh Edinburgh accent throwing me. (She’s an accent leech, one of those folk who can spend a day in Liverpool, sounding like a native immediately thereafter. Thankfully, she’s never spent time in Norfolk…)

Anyway, Landman is about the oil industry, touching on current methods to maximise oil wells which have declined in production, a scenario which is close to the practices of LSE:DEC.

Currently, we would suggest paying close attention if Diversified share price exceeds 1200p as movement to an initial 1259 looks extremely probably with our longer term secondary, if exceeded, coming along at 1420p and almost certain hesitation. While we often say a share is worth watching, this one is definitely in such a category.

Our converse scenario, should things decide to go wrong, allows for weakness below 1044 to point at an initial 919 with our secondary, if broken, down at 814p and a very possible rebound.

This one, we suspect shall really prove worth watching, similar to Landman…

 

 

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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
9:47:54PM	BRENT	6241.8									‘cess
10:06:42PM	GOLD	4163.4
10:15:29PM	FTSE	9687.8									‘cess
11:01:17PM	STOX50	5652.5	5586	5562	5529	5623	5662	5693	5767	5597	Success
11:05:26PM	GERMANY	23748.8	23444	23370	23238	23588	23765	23821	24128	23624	‘cess
11:09:20PM	US500	8616.1									‘cess
11:12:16PM	DOW	47454.7									‘cess
11:18:14PM	NASDAQ	25265
11:22:04PM	JAPAN	50093									Success

 

26/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9691 points. Change of 0.85%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,542,003,610 a change of 18.39%

25/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9609 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,370,501,929 a change of -51.58%

24/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9534 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 13,156,523,796 a change of 87.85%

21/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9539 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,003,826,108 a change of 23.05%

20/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9527 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,692,009,331 a change of -8.32%

19/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9507 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,208,622,594 a change of -9.04%

18/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9552 points. Change of -1.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,826,015,429 a change of 18.51%

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:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 685.5 Percentage Change: + 1.93% Day High: 687 Day Low: 672.5

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LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group. Close Mid-Price: 10175 Percentage Change: + 0.99% Day High: 10190 Day Low: 10075

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 93.8 Percentage Change: + 3.44% Day High: 95.3 Day Low: 89.82

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#Brent #Gold Convatec Group, a global medical products and tech company, include amongst their products something to do with “continence care”. It immediately reminded of one of my brilliant jokes which was prompted by noticing a packet of “Tena For Men” in the loo. By the time we all sat down for dinner, the entire joke had just about formulated in my head, the story making myself the butt of the joke rather than risk making fun of anyone. Once dinner was complete, my wife wandered outside for a ciggy and with unusual inspiration, the decision was made to run the joke past my wife first.

This proved wise. Unusually, she didn’t see the funny side of the story. In fact, felt the need to make threats, if I ever told it in public. Apparently, there is absolutely nothing funny about continence products and the joke has to remain untold, forever, as it risked a friend feeling they were the target. Which was a surprise, because even my undertaker pal found a joke about swapping the heads over, when discovering two corpses had been mistakenly dressed in the others clothing prior to a viewing, worthy of endless repetition.

An interesting detail about Convatec’s share price is their Red uptrend since 2019. Despite a few intraday blips below the trend, extreme care has been taken to ensure the share price closed on the Red line, rather than break below. Our inclination is to take this as a good thing, the market ensuring the price doesn’t trigger a downward cycle.

At present, closure below just 223p would start ringing alarm bells, risking the trigger of reversals to an initial 202p with our secondary, if broken, at 151p. Visually, there is a pretty good argument to anticipate a bounce by the 202p level.

Conversely, if the market intends push Convatec upward, which is our suspicion, above 249p should trigger an initial visit to 268p with our secondary, if bettered, at 308p where it becomes crucial for the share value to close above 298p and create a “higher high”. This would effectively suggest a future 355p is exerting an attraction!

 

And finally, just to make fun of a chum (because she reads this) our warning not to burn garden leaf’s on a day with little wind was not heard. As darkness encroached, her steamy cloud managed to spread down the loch, making it look like there had been a power cut on the other side of the water as everything was obscured.

 

 

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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
9:42:22PM	BRENT	6190.4	6096	6001	5800	6200	6202	6236	6282	6151
10:10:09PM	GOLD	4129.55	4109	4097	4076	4141	4160	4181	4234	4120
10:23:12PM	FTSE	9631.8
10:25:47PM	STOX50	5592.9									‘cess
10:28:01PM	GERMANY	23559									Shambles
10:30:18PM	US500	6764.7									‘cess
10:33:35PM	DOW	47124.2									Success
11:07:23PM	NASDAQ	24994.7
11:21:34PM	JAPAN	49129									‘cess

 

25/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9609 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,370,501,929 a change of -51.58%

24/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9534 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 13,156,523,796 a change of 87.85%

21/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9539 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,003,826,108 a change of 23.05%

20/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9527 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,692,009,331 a change of -8.32%

19/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9507 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,208,622,594 a change of -9.04%

18/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9552 points. Change of -1.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,826,015,429 a change of 18.51%

17/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9675 points. Change of -0.24%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,759,759,832 a change of -8.67%

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:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **

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LSE:AZN Astrazeneca. Close Mid-Price: 14100 Percentage Change: + 1.19% Day High: 14140 Day Low: 13852

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LSE:GRG Greggs. Close Mid-Price: 1470 Percentage Change: + 3.67% Day High: 1479 Day Low: 1408

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LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group. Close Mid-Price: 10075 Percentage Change: + 1.83% Day High: 10090 Day Low: 9890

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 329.4 Percentage Change: + 1.51% Day High: 330.3 Day Low: 320.9

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LSE:TLW Tullow Close Mid-Price: 3.9 Percentage Change: -4.53% Day High: 4.22 Day Low: 3.51

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LSE:TRN The Trainline. Close Mid-Price: 238.6 Percentage Change: + 0.42% Day High: 239.6 Day Low: 234.6

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#Gold #Nasdaq According to Fruitnet, around 5,000 tonnes of persimmon have been damaged in Spain but of course, the prospective shortage is liable to have a positive impact on the price of the fruit. And in a truly bizarre spinoff, during the immediate time period, it seems Persimmon Plc (absolutely nothing to do with the fruit) also holds the potential for positive share price gains. Maybe it’s something to do with their plans for building lots and lots of houses in 2026, this provoking a few analysts in proposing a major share price recovery next year.

Shown on the chart below, Persimmon has been inflicted with some sort of glass ceiling at 1272p and aside from a period between May and July this year, the green line on the chart represented a price level the market has been pretty keen to stop Persimmon closing above. However, with their share price closing at 1285p, the situation now exists where movement above 1300p (Mondays high) should now trigger movement to an initial 1359p with our longer term secondary, if beaten, at 1441p.

This secondary is an issue, taking the price above the high of 2025 and hopefully able to close above the closing price high of 2025 at 1395p. The shall be an issue from a Big Picture perspective, perhaps placing the optimistic analysts in the uncomfortable and unusual position of being right for Persimmons chances in 2026. In other words, we’re surprised at finding ourselves in a similar position to these self proclaimed analysts, especially as our Xmas story, if all this comes to fruition, calculated with a Big Picture potential at an eventual astounding 2401p.

The share price needs do something silly below 1192p as this threatens the potential of weakness to an initial 1151p with our secondary, if broken, working out at 1000p and hopefully a bounce.

Worth watching.

 

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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
9:55:25PM	BRENT	6282
10:06:13PM	GOLD	4134.02	4022	3996	3948	4064	4140	4180	4232	4090
10:17:33PM	FTSE	9541.9									‘cess
10:20:14PM	STOX50	5527.3
10:23:14PM	GERMANY	23238.2
10:27:42PM	US500	6708.7									‘cess
10:31:47PM	DOW	46457
10:35:54PM	NASDAQ	24889.1	24389	24215	23980	24528	24922	25282	25764	24822	‘cess
10:39:47PM	JAPAN	49486

 

24/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9534 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 13,156,523,796 a change of 87.85%

21/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9539 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,003,826,108 a change of 23.05%

20/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9527 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,692,009,331 a change of -8.32%

19/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9507 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,208,622,594 a change of -9.04%

18/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9552 points. Change of -1.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,826,015,429 a change of 18.51%

17/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9675 points. Change of -0.24%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,759,759,832 a change of -8.67%

14/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9698 points. Change of -1.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,306,721,574 a change of 10.93%

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:ASC Asos** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:WG. Wood Group** **

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LSE:ASC Asos Close Mid-Price: 218.5 Percentage Change: -6.62% Day High: 234 Day Low: 217

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LSE:AZN Astrazeneca. Close Mid-Price: 13934 Percentage Change: + 0.82% Day High: 13970 Day Low: 13820

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LSE:GRG Greggs Close Mid-Price: 1418 Percentage Change: -2.21% Day High: 1460 Day Low: 1413

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer Close Mid-Price: 324.5 Percentage Change: -2.58% Day High: 333.1 Day Low: 322.5

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce Close Mid-Price: 1029 Percentage Change: -0.87% Day High: 1038.5 Day Low: 1019.5

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital Close Mid-Price: 16.6 Percentage Change: -6.21% Day High: 17 Day Low: 15.7

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LSE:TLW Tullow Close Mid-Price: 4.08 Percentage Change: -18.95% Day High: 5.1 Day Low: 4.03

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LSE:TRN The Trainline Close Mid-Price: 237.6 Percentage Change: -6.31% Day High: 254.6 Day Low: 235.8

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LSE:WG. Wood Group Close Mid-Price: 24.98 Percentage Change: -0.79% Day High: 26 Day Low: 24.3

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#Brent #SP500 It only took a global pandemic for us to appreciate Xmas trees and lights are a pretty good survey of the mood of the country. In 2020, when Xmas decorations started to appear at the start of October, they provided a pretty good sign of the public opinion on the misery of Lockdowns. The next couple of years saw the beginning of Xmas pushed back slightly until last year, when I think our decorations went up the preceding weekend in something of a panic. But this year, things changed with Xmas trees being in evidence since the first weekend of November with this weekend proving to be “Springtime, for Xmas, in Argyll”. We can only judge the mood of our patch of Scotland is less than happy and friends in Edinburgh are reporting similar sightings of early Xmas trees flourishing in peoples windows.

If the proliferation of Xmas trees in indeed a converse sign of a miserable nation trying to cheer itself up, two little baubles appeared in the NatWest share price movement chart, our dreaded “Gap Up/Gap Down” pattern (GaGa) which often provides a reliable indicator for coming misery. From our perspective, the problem with LSE:NWG makes itself known as we’re still a little hysterical about the 551p level. If our GaGa signal of doom plays out in accordance with our usual calculations, it appears weakness next below 567p risks triggering reversals to an initial 561p with our secondary, if broken, down at 539p.

This secondary is a problem, affording the share price the opportunity to close a session below 551p and spoiling all our carefully thought out gain potentials for the longer term. We’re actually pretty serious about this as NatWest had compiled a pretty solid argument in favour of a distant 784p.

Of course, there is even a larger problem with this GaGa movement as, by forcing reversals below the Blue downtrend, the share risks tripping a Big Picture calculation which proposes an eventual relaxation to a bottom of 433p. This obviously spoils the immediate party the share price is enjoying but unfortunately, to trash the negative GaGa signal, the share now needs exceed 600p to once again drag 784p back into the frame for future ambitions.

At present, the best we can hope is our GaGa calculations prove incorrect and NWG fails to close a session below 551p. Or in other words, a Festive Fingers Crossed Time!

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
9:38:17PM	BRENT	6185.9	6123	5986	5903	6345	6401	6510	6633	6340
9:41:39PM	GOLD	4064.83
9:44:05PM	FTSE	9574.3
9:46:18PM	STOX50	5541.6
9:48:18PM	GERMANY	23218.9
9:50:49PM	US500	6614.3	6524	6482	6423	6583	6659	6694	6757	6597
9:55:49PM	DOW	46301
11:25:22PM	NASDAQ	24273.8
11:27:38PM	JAPAN	48923

 

21/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9539 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,003,826,108 a change of 23.05%

20/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9527 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,692,009,331 a change of -8.32%

19/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9507 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,208,622,594 a change of -9.04%

18/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9552 points. Change of -1.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,826,015,429 a change of 18.51%

17/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9675 points. Change of -0.24%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,759,759,832 a change of -8.67%

14/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9698 points. Change of -1.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,306,721,574 a change of 10.93%

13/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9807 points. Change of -1.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,685,178,464 a change of -6.33%

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:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 3353 Percentage Change: + 3.52% Day High: 3356 Day Low: 3226

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra Close Mid-Price: 335 Percentage Change: -4.03% Day High: 341.8 Day Low: 333

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LSE:GRG Greggs Close Mid-Price: 1450 Percentage Change: -0.82% Day High: 1468 Day Low: 1416

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LSE:QED Quadrise Close Mid-Price: 2.89 Percentage Change: -0.34% Day High: 3 Day Low: 2.58

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 9 Percentage Change: + 2.86% Day High: 9 Day Low: 8.74

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FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX)  Trading around 9527 at time of writing.

#FTSE #GOLD The FTSE, never spelled as The Footsie, has the potential to make us cringe for the next year, every time we hear it mentioned. The problem, somewhat inevitably, comes from the Scottish football team who’ve unleashed a wave of dread across the entire country. The issue comes from the media who, each time Scotland qualify for the World Cup, decide it’s the most important thing on the planet and hype up the players potentials even more than LibDems inflate their prospective political candidates.

Each match is welcomed with a feeling of dread, hoping this shall not be the time the footballers utterly humiliate their own country. There was a memorable quote, a Scottish player recalling a World Cup game against football giants Argentina and regretting an early goal from his own team:

“Why did we score, we just made them angry!”

This was an amusing mindset, one we suspect is echoed by the rest of the country as in their hearts, few anticipate the national team to produce any miracles. The only real worry comes from my younger sister who actually watched the football match on TV, literally the first time in her life she’d ever watched a game. Apparently it was brilliant, entertaining throughout, and her husband was delighted that after 25 years of marriage, she’d finally endured the hell of a match from start to finish. She even texted me to ask what I’d thought of the game, my reply asking “Who was playing?” seeming to surprise her despite me also never watching football, rugby, tennis, or any ball game.

Unfortunately, the FTSE is, from a Scottish perspective, looking capable of proving a bit of an embarrassment just like our national team playing Footsie!

Market reversals have been quite vivid this week with more than a taste of things being deliberately pushed downward. Now, markets like the Nasdaq, the German DAX, or the Nikkei are poised just above triggers for a 1,000 point drop with the FTSE always anxious to be part of the “me too” crowd, poised for a pro-rata 300 point negative movement.

The immediate scenario for the FTSE allows traffic below 9500 points to trigger reversals to an initial 9399 points with our secondary, if broken, at 9221 points. The inset on the chart below, showing recent closing prices, highlights the important detail the FTSE needs close a session above 9560 points to cancel our reversal arithmetic. Even daily traffic above 9595 should regain the Red uptrend, ticking a major box in cancelling these drop potentials.

The “surprise recovery” scenario suggests movement above 9560 should trigger near term traffic toward an initial useless 9573 points with our secondary, if beaten, at 9593 points, giving the market the potential of closing above the point of trend break on the insert below. This also introduces a further potential above 9593 as the bigger picture hints at an initial 9653 points with secondary 9701, negating all the risks of a severe drop ahead while also placing the FTSE in an excellent position to waffle around while doing very little while we sneak up on Christmas.

Have a good weekend.

 

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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
10:49:33PM	BRENT	6254.2	6252	6215		6300	6398	6446		6346	‘cess
10:53:20PM	GOLD	4076.88	4038	4021		4072	4110	4137		4064
10:58:05PM	FTSE	9435	9433	9383		9478	9514	9550		9444	Shambles
11:01:15PM	STOX50	5479.9	5478	5445		5518	5546	5577		5498
11:04:20PM	GERMANY	22944.4	22912	22875		23087	23223	23364		23040	‘cess
11:06:43PM	US500	6534.5	6525	6495		6581	6639	6679		6570
11:10:28PM	DOW	45755.5	45717	45461		45962	46147	46347		45890	Success
11:19:30PM	NASDAQ	23961.8	23943	23337		24327	24562	24798		24227	‘cess
11:22:39PM	JAPAN	48376	48144	47626		48531	49097	49503		48648	Success

 

20/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9527 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,692,009,331 a change of -8.32%

19/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9507 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,208,622,594 a change of -9.04%

18/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9552 points. Change of -1.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,826,015,429 a change of 18.51%

17/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9675 points. Change of -0.24%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,759,759,832 a change of -8.67%

14/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9698 points. Change of -1.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,306,721,574 a change of 10.93%

13/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9807 points. Change of -1.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,685,178,464 a change of -6.33%

12/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9911 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,069,423,545 a change of -4.91%

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:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G. Close Mid-Price: 7.3 Percentage Change: + 4.29% Day High: 7.3 Day Low: 6.75

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LSE:TRN The Trainline. Close Mid-Price: 252.6 Percentage Change: + 3.02% Day High: 253 Day Low: 242.8

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#GOLD #Stoxx50 It’d be fair to say we really dislike WH Smith as a retailer. There’s a thing in retail which revolves around “distress or dammit” purchases. It used to be the case petrol stations would stock obscure products like Cigarettes, Milk, even Bread in the knowledge folk would pop in past, when driving home and hopefully pour a gallon or two of petrol in their tank. Petrol stations, habitually, would premium price these “dammit I forgot” items as with Bread and Milk, there was often a high degree of wastage while the public altered their mindset.

Broadly speaking, nowadays of course, petrol stations mostly rely on their shop sales but few have forgotten the good old days, when they could get away with adding a few pence onto the price of products.

However, WH Smith have raised this attitude to an art form, or perhaps more accurately, legalised theft. Recently, returning to Scotland from Birmingham, making the mistake of going into a motorway service station shop while considering eating brought a sharp detour to the WH Smith outlet, the stale coffee scent from the cafe area providing a warning.  In the WH Smith outlet, a personal favourite Lucozade Orange juice clearly had an erroneous price, the sticker at the front of the shelf suggesting the small bottle of juice was around 3 quid higher than charged in our local shop. With a grin, I asked at the counter what the real price was, the bored assistant shrugged and confirmed the shelf edge price was correct. I left without waking up the moths in my wallet… There’s a point when business acumen is taken over by greed, generally an indication a company may be in some sort of panic.

Perhaps it was the case WH Smith are using their UK motorway outlets to try and correct the little woopsie, due to their North American profit forecasts being overstated by around $30 million. News of this led to the company share price experiencing a 35% fall in their share price, a reduction in value of £600 million which far outweighed the accountancy error! However, WH Smith have created an entire industry of “distress” purchase retail locations, enjoying their mini monopoly in airports, hospitals, railway stations, and motorways.

As can be assumed, we’re not exactly brimming with confidence for the immediate future of WH Smith, though the decision of their Group CEO to step down following a review of the accounting failures in the North American division, seems to have forced the company to slash their profit outlook. Despite the share price gaining over 7% on the day the boss left the company, we’ve a bit of a problem discovering any optimism for recovery as the share price needs exceed 888p to start undoing the damage caused by the Gap Down in August.

About the best we can currently hope for is for movement above 674 to bring near term recovery to an initial 775p with our secondary, if exceeded, at 837p. Unfortunately, this secondary is substantially below our 888p, indicating the danger the share price has moved down to a new trading level. Unless the market discovers a reason to Gap Up the share price, we suspect a glass ceiling shall form around the 837p target level.

Should things intend go wrong, below 585 risks triggering reversal down to an initial 533p with our secondary, if broken, at 233p. We suspect a return to the Covid-19 low at 533p shall prove possible.

 

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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
10:40:40PM	BRENT	6326.8									‘cess
10:43:56PM	GOLD	4077.68	4056	4031	3997	4095	4132	4156	4208	4097	‘cess
10:46:53PM	FTSE	9558.4
10:49:39PM	STOX50	5578.7	5503	5432	5304	5561	5586	5617	5655	5546	Shambles
10:52:30PM	GERMANY	23308.3
10:55:05PM	US500	6675.8
10:58:15PM	DOW	46151.5
11:14:23PM	NASDAQ	24960									Shambles
11:16:42PM	JAPAN	50011									Success

 

19/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9507 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,208,622,594 a change of -9.04%

18/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9552 points. Change of -1.27%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,826,015,429 a change of 18.51%

17/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9675 points. Change of -0.24%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,759,759,832 a change of -8.67%

14/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9698 points. Change of -1.11%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,306,721,574 a change of 10.93%

13/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9807 points. Change of -1.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,685,178,464 a change of -6.33%

12/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9911 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,069,423,545 a change of -4.91%

11/11/2025 FTSE Closed at 9899 points. Change of 1.14%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,382,591,388 a change of 4.7%

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

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

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

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

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:BLOE Block Energy PLC** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce Close Mid-Price: 1066.5 Percentage Change: -0.65% Day High: 1080 Day Low: 1050.5

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 8.75 Percentage Change: + 2.94% Day High: 8.75 Day Low: 8.49

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LSE:TRN The Trainline Close Mid-Price: 245.2 Percentage Change: -2.00% Day High: 251.6 Day Low: 244.8

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