Trends And Targets

#Brent #WallSt There were more than a few echoes of Michael Schumacher in “Formula1, The Movie”, perhaps not in a good way. Attaching the title “Legend” to Schumacher has always been a bit generous, his motivation being to win regardless whether it involved arguable cheating or driving skills. The character played by Brad Pitt in “Formula1” quickly becomes notorious due to perceived mistakes, driving errors, collisions, but the underlying aim was always for the team to do well. Such a facet always escaped Schumacher, the only person benefiting from his antics being himself. Perhaps the credited producer, Louis Hamilton, was enjoying a little private dig at MS but overall, it was a good movie, especially the final 30 minutes or so and a race which somehow captured the spirit of a Murray Walker commentary when he experienced an audible meltdown while commenting on a hung-over and slightly drunk James Hunt doing his magic on the track.

Long story short, if you enjoy Formula1 or Brad Pitt, the film was pretty good but with an inevitable Hollywood ending where the right man won the race! Obviously, our decision to watch the movie was entirely due to withdrawal symptoms with Grand Prix taking an August holiday. Thankfully, everything kicks off this coming weekend with a usually messy Belgian race, hopefully not terribly wet and hopefully not dry either.

 

Barclays managed to spend August in the pit lane of share prices, essentially doing absolutely nothing of interest while creating a pretence of movement. It occurs this stance is similar to that adopted by the UK Government, though rather than a month, they’re doing it for years at a time…

 

The immediate situation for Barclays now suggests movements above 378.5 should now bring a share price rise to an initial 385p with our “longer term” secondary, if bettered, at a more useful 397p. This secondary value is quite significant, representing a price level where we suspect some volatility shall prove almost essential.

Should things intend go pear shaped for Barclays, below 364 risks proving troublesome, capable of triggering share price reversals to an initial 343p with our secondary, if broken, at 330p and hopefully a bottom.

Our inclination is to assume Barclays intends a Hollywood event, allowing the share price to extend upward to just below the 4 quid level. And then reversing!

 

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
11:02:05PM	BRENT	6668.3	6615	6446	6167	6699	6821	6867	6937	6733
11:04:57PM	GOLD	3391.42
11:06:43PM	FTSE	9295.4
11:10:07PM	STOX50	5399.5
11:12:23PM	GERMANY	24220.1
11:14:22PM	US500	6472.6
11:51:01PM	DOW	45447.9	45109	44929	44651	45333	45678	45890	46150	45260
11:52:45PM	NASDAQ	23550.5
11:54:48PM	JAPAN	42520

 

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 0.35%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,525,328,498 a change of 36.03%

18/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9157 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,796,925,972 a change of -21.07%

15/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9138 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,077,567,012 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:CCL Carnival. Close Mid-Price: 2129 Percentage Change: + 1.43% Day High: 2139 Day Low: 2093

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LSE:IGG IG Group Close Mid-Price: 1152 Percentage Change: -0.09% Day High: 1156 Day Low: 1140

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 432 Percentage Change: + 1.34% Day High: 432.9 Day Low: 424.6

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#FTSE #GOLD With some despair, we now get to enjoy the last Bank Holiday weekend until Christmas, reflecting on just how fast this year has been moving. Suddenly, we’re at the point where it is only 125 days until Christmas 2025, the FTSE having experienced a gain of 13% since the start of this year, and wondering just where all this largesse vanished. After all, the UK is apparently a financial mess despite the best efforts of the chancellor, “Rachel from Accounts”. There is broad agreement the government is working hard to smother adverse comment, reaching levels which North American politicians find reprehensible. And planned for Autumn are a series of strikes from The Tube, from bus services, even GP’s joining the fun while junior doctors in the NHS are planning a walkout, presumably to join with nurses who’ve rejected a derisory pay offer. Meanwhile, Birmingham remains an active rubbish dump.

To cap all the misery, the follow up to Sex and The City has been cancelled, “Just Like That” retiring and the show title once again returning to the clutches of Paul Daniels(/) legacy. It’s probably unfair to say this but the bloke was once booked for a corporate thing, doing his act after a sumptuous dinner. He wasn’t very good, perhaps more suited to a career of telly where they could redo things. My favourite entertainer at a corporate shindig was Jack Douglas, famed for his “Carry On” performances. The guy was dangerously funny, yet could command every second of the audiences attention!  My own father probably holds some kind of record for success at motor industry corporate shindigs, managing to meet Sean Connery and Eric Morecambe at different events, playing golf with them in the days following and ensuring, as children, we were dragged to Majorca for holidays where he golfed with his chums.

 

As for the FTSE, last week we speculated on 9298 points, the FTSE achieving it on Wednesday and even closing Thursday at 9309 points. Our suspicion is this shall become a flutter level until September kicks off, 9298 becoming a fictitious point which the market shall flutter above and below until the grown ups return from their holidays. However, in a cowardly admission, it’s now the case where above 9310 risks propelling the UK to 9350 next, almost certainly a problem level as our secondary is now 9728 points. This would be once heck of a jump from our 9350 level, perhaps attainable if “Rachel from Accounts” vanishes and someone competent is given the position. Or maybe she will invent a wizard idea, something like charging each illegal migrant £1 million points, their labour indentured until the debt is paid off. That way, she could invent a viable slave economy, a step below the minimum wage concept, along with creating an entirely fictitious debt to balance the books. Simple but a little distasteful. Heck, most people don’t have chimneys they could send children up to clean.

 

If things decide to go pear shaped before September brings the chill wind of winter, below 9260 risks promoting reversal to an initial 9206 with our secondary, if broken, at 9171 points and a return to the price levels at the very start of the holiday season. This would be a complete surprise, again.

Have a good weekend, only another few days until the Grand Prix season kicks off.

 

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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
10:56:03PM	BRENT	6703.1	6626	6583		6682	6714	6734		6627	‘cess
10:57:59PM	GOLD	3339.54	3325	3316		3342	3348	3359		3335
10:59:56PM	FTSE	9319.5	9256	9229		9282	9324	9337		9295
11:02:28PM	STOX50	5464.4	5437	5424		5454	5466	5474		5456	Shambles
11:15:02PM	GERMANY	24297.5	24230	24208		24277	24307	24353		24267
11:18:04PM	US500	6378.8	6352	6346		6374	6400	6412		6380
11:20:13PM	DOW	44841.4	44571	44380		44775	44951	45099		44846	Shambles
11:23:09PM	NASDAQ	23174.3	23044	22996		23135	23290	23377		23207
11:25:46PM	JAPAN	42705	42505	42163		42683	42754	42868		42623

 

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 0.35%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,525,328,498 a change of 36.03%

18/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9157 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,796,925,972 a change of -21.07%

15/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9138 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,077,567,012 a change of 24.32%

14/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,888,645,281 a change of -12.34%

13/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9165 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,576,963,719 a change of 12.35%

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: 583 Percentage Change: + 1.57% Day High: 584 Day Low: 573.5

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 562.8 Percentage Change: + 1.63% Day High: 563.4 Day Low: 553.8

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LSE:SPX Spirax. Close Mid-Price: 7250 Percentage Change: + 0.42% Day High: 7270 Day Low: 7195

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#Gold #SP500   We often take some pains to illustrate it’s not the trend which is important but rather, how a share price or index reacts to the trend, once it’s been broken. This logic applies, regardless whether it’s a Blue downtrend or Red uptrend and the key is always the price level at which a trend has been broken. In the case of a Blue downtrend, should the trend be broken at 6 for instance, if the price closes below 6 thereafter, it’s a pretty good sign the trend wasn’t important and can probably be ignored. Instead, we always anticipate some further price reductions.

Similarly, with a Red uptrend, if the price breaks the trend again at 6 and closes above 6 shortly afterwards, the trend break is generally a fake and further gains can usually be planned on. For the sake of safety and sanity, we always prefer demanding a price actually closes Below or Above which type of trend line you are playing with. Of course, the difficult bit can be defining just where to draw a trend but, in the case of A G Barr below, it’s fairly easy for the Blue downtrend.

 

A G Barr, famed manufacturers of funny Irn Bru commercials, has a well defined Blue downtrend which dates back to 2011, this trend being broken at 673p in April of this year. As the chart extracts show, despite some flamboyant movements during the day, the share price has failed to close below the 673p level. It’s a bit irritating to admit, thanks to various movement gaps, this number “could” be 651p but as the extracts show, it seems the market is happy to rely on a painted line, rather than a fussy calculation. Our inclination, as “the market always knows”, is to accept 673p risks becoming a trigger level for reversals.

Currently, closure below 673 calculates with the potential of reversals to an initial 620p with our secondary, if broken, at a future 550p. Perhaps, in this scenario, it shall experience a bounce.

 

More likely, it feels like movement above 711p should generate price recovery to an initial 768 with our secondary, if beaten, an eventual 891p and an urgent need to revisit the share price.

For the present, we’re fairly optimistic about their share price. If only they’d produce a whisky flavoured Irn Bru… And as can be noticed, absolutely no conventional chart indicators were harmed in production of this scenario.

 

 

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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
9:55:17PM	BRENT	6651.6									Success
9:57:58PM	GOLD	3347.56	3320	3308	3294	3330	3350	3358	3373	3338
10:20:29PM	FTSE	9305.8									Success
10:23:24PM	STOX50	5474.8
10:25:47PM	GERMANY	24293.8
10:28:04PM	US500	6395.8	6345	6319	6263	6394	6411	6438	6469	6390	Success
11:45:48PM	DOW	44893.2
11:48:57PM	NASDAQ	23237									Success
11:51:09PM	JAPAN	42850									Success

 

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 0.35%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,525,328,498 a change of 36.03%

18/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9157 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,796,925,972 a change of -21.07%

15/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9138 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,077,567,012 a change of 24.32%

14/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,888,645,281 a change of -12.34%

13/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9165 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,576,963,719 a change of 12.35%

12/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9147 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,963,866,673 a change of 14.87%

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

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

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

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

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:CPI Capita** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **

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LSE:SPX Spirax Close Mid-Price: 7220 Percentage Change: -0.48% Day High: 7255 Day Low: 7165

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 0.68 Percentage Change: -18.18% Day High: 0.82 Day Low: 0.68

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 88.42 Percentage Change: + 1.42% Day High: 88.78 Day Low: 86.74

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#FTSE #Nasdaq   “Shenzhenshidongruihanjieshebeigufenyouxiangongsi ” will be covered in paragraph two below! The most recent initiative to get folk back into the office, escaping the pyjama world of home working, has been to allow folk to return to the office, with their dogs. The constant efforts to make corporate office working attractive again are a bit amusing, effectively an admission the historical environment wasn’t conducive to a good place to work. Perhaps this sort of thinking contributes to the harsh fact International Workplace profits dropped in the first six months of this year, only US$12 as opposed to a previous US$32. Their share price got a solid write up from the markets.

 

As for “shenzhenshidongruihanjieshebeigufenyouxiangongsi“, this was the hilarious first line of the address from an eBay seller which only appeared AFTER the purchase. Generally we’re careful to buy from UK based companies and suppliers, a portable TIG welding plant from a supplier in Manchester was attractively priced, promising delivery by Thursday of this week. To explain, deciding to build a wine fermentation “shed” which would accommodate my latest hobby, made me realise there was quite a bit to consider. I’ve been used to lifting 30 litre containers to a certain height, pumping the content (without the grotty stuff at the bottom) into another sanitised container, and again letting things settle for a while, then decanting it again. It’s all a bit fussy, especially if you’ve stabilised the temperature of the initial fermentation between 26c and 29c for 7+ days.

Essentially, I designed something which looks like a mini oil refinery as it also includes my secret weapon, creating distilled water for the fermentation mix. My existing welding plant could perhaps be described as a little energetic, unable to handle welding pipework or smaller tight jobs. In other words, it burns holes through thin metal. After finding the exact welding plant I wanted on eBay, an order was placed and due to the product coming from Manchester, the Post Office tracking information was forwarded. It transpires I’d bought from a Chinese company in Guangdong in China, who it appears have shipped a pile of stock to Manchester and thus convince folk they are buying via a UK company. Oops. Hopefully the product is genuine, despite the company name looking like a Welsh nightmare!

There is an end game to this wine fascination, an intention of producing something red of the quality of Chateauneuf du Pape. In the meantime, it’s wonderful to browse a wine rack the weekends, deciding whether to try a Rioja, a Merlot, a Shiraz, or whatever.  Or “just” choose our astounding Pinot Gris which is somehow  improving with age. Neither this white wine nor our Rioja are given away to friends… It can be assumed we’re developing considerable suspicion about these “Wine Club” companies who flog cases of wine, since discovering wine concentrate can be purchased for home fermentation, making it relatively easy to produce product which, with a little care, is considerably better quality than anything bought in a supermarket. Personally, a dislike of adding anything which ends in either ” ‘ate or ‘ite’ ” after initial fermentation, led to the decision to use purified distilled water when making wine. Our Pinot Gris, excellent from Day One of bottling, continues to improve and a clarity is almost dodgy, challenging spring water in a glass. Except it is super, without any added chemicals.

 

As for International Workspace Group share price, it certainly has the potential for some real trouble, considerably worse than the market reaction to their financial results. We previously reviewed this share back in March 2025 and the price triggered and successfully achieved our primary and secondary targets. It even exceeded our secondary level, repeatedly closing above the 220p point and looking pretty well set for a future we hadn’t yet mapped. But with this set of financial results, things have become a little skewed as the price now needs exceed 220p to hopefully trigger recovery to an initial 230p with our secondary, if bettered, a longer term 252p and taken into a zone where a Big Picture 283p is exerting a gravitic influence. Visually, it even makes some sense.

However,  the immediate situation is a little dodgy as the share price – from our perspective – cannot afford to close below 188p. This would be a bad thing, allowing future traffic downward to an initial 176p with our secondary of 156p, keeping the share price trapped in a zone from which it shall be difficult to escape. Our suspicion is this is about to head upward, once some dramatics are concluded. After all, any company which approves of dogs will always get our vote.

 

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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
11:24:10PM	BRENT	6550.6
11:26:56PM	GOLD	3315.94									‘cess
11:33:19PM	FTSE	9178.5	9154	9148	9138	9182	9198	9220	9252	9158
11:35:19PM	STOX50	5464.7									‘cess
11:38:45PM	GERMANY	24339									Success
11:43:02PM	US500	6413.6									Success
11:45:57PM	DOW	44935.1									Success
11:48:22PM	NASDAQ	23382	23344	23300	23077	23435	23509	23571	23646	23364	Success
11:50:47PM	JAPAN	43412

 

19/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9189 points. Change of 0.35%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,525,328,498 a change of 36.03%

18/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9157 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,796,925,972 a change of -21.07%

15/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9138 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,077,567,012 a change of 24.32%

14/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,888,645,281 a change of -12.34%

13/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9165 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,576,963,719 a change of 12.35%

12/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9147 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,963,866,673 a change of 14.87%

11/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9129 points. Change of 0.37%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,321,122,132 a change of -15.66%

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:CPI Capita** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **

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LSE:CPI Capita. Close Mid-Price: 230.5 Percentage Change: + 0.22% Day High: 234 Day Low: 225

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LSE:PMG Parkmead. Close Mid-Price: 16.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 16.6 Day Low: 15.9

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 21.5 Percentage Change: + 3.86% Day High: 21.55 Day Low: 20.35

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LSE:SPX Spirax. Close Mid-Price: 7255 Percentage Change: + 1.97% Day High: 7225 Day Low: 7100

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LSE:SRP Serco. Close Mid-Price: 229.8 Percentage Change: + 0.17% Day High: 231.8 Day Low: 228.8

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 87.18 Percentage Change: + 0.16% Day High: 87.76 Day Low: 86.94

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#Gold #Germany   The term “Fear of Missing Out” can often drive traders into utterly idiotic situations. Goodness knows how many folks made ill advised investments in Electric Vehicle Companies, Blockchain initiatives, Artificial Intelligence hype, and of course the ongoing fantasy which is crypto currency. But the funny thing about the markets currently is probably a fear of getting involved, due to various world issues being capable of forcing a market retreat.

The largest independent UK Oil Company, when we reviewed them back in 2023, managed to reverse and smack both our drop targets. But something interesting has now happened and we’ve circled it on the chart below. We’ve previously commented on Harbour Energy’s share price ability to perform in ignorance of the oil market. But the market opted to “gap” (circled) Harbour Energy up above the five year downtrend since 2020, suggesting a cycle of gains should be anticipated. The market decided a 28p rise was justified, along with dumping the share price into a new region above the trend. It was a pretty clear signal the market is planning some changes for the share price.

Currently, above 246p should trigger gains to an initial 282p with our longer term secondary, if beaten, at a future 340p. It’s quite a big deal, potentially launching the share price into a scenario where a future 518p shall be viewed as extending a magnetic attraction.

For Harbour share price to lose its way, the price needs sink below 201p.

 

 

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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
10:16:36PM	BRENT	6602.6									‘cess
10:20:03PM	GOLD	3332.2	3332	3322	3310	3340	3358	3369	3382	3341
10:22:41PM	FTSE	9173.1
10:25:59PM	STOX50	5439									Success
10:29:03PM	GERMANY	24346	24298	24223	24118	24367	24365	24392	24442	24300	‘cess
10:31:50PM	US500	6446.3
10:51:02PM	DOW	44903.5									‘cess
10:55:27PM	NASDAQ	23701.5

 

18/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9157 points. Change of 0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,796,925,972 a change of -21.07%

15/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9138 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,077,567,012 a change of 24.32%

14/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,888,645,281 a change of -12.34%

13/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9165 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,576,963,719 a change of 12.35%

12/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9147 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,963,866,673 a change of 14.87%

11/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9129 points. Change of 0.37%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,321,122,132 a change of -15.66%

8/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9095 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,123,576,118 a change of -18.06%

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:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 230 Percentage Change: -0.22% Day High: 232 Day Low: 228

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital Close Mid-Price: 20.7 Percentage Change: -3.27% Day High: 21.85 Day Low: 20.55

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LSE:SRP Serco. Close Mid-Price: 229.4 Percentage Change: + 1.96% Day High: 229.4 Day Low: 224

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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey Close Mid-Price: 99.02 Percentage Change: -0.92% Day High: 100.8 Day Low: 98.56

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 #Brent #Germany One thing we didn’t anticipate in August was previously unheard of behaviour for a retail bank, triggering a gain and hitting both our initial and secondary targets! Puncturing our balloon just a little bit, we’d only been speculating on a 4p rise but given the traditional lethargy of August, we didn’t expect it to happen. Instead, our expectation had been for forced reversals, giving plenty of time for the share price to tread water until Formula1 resumes and the markets start getting a little serious again.

It’s probably worth mentioning a phenomena we’ve noticed growing over the years, something we call Holiday Creep. It used to be the case August simply died a death but this year, August appeared to start around the third week of July and we expect it shall end around the start of the second week of September. In other words, August has become a six week month, joining the “12 Days of Christmas” which now last from around 21st December until 14th January. And don’t even get us started on Easter, a variable date holiday which lasts one heck of a lot longer than a 4 day weekend! Despite today being 18th of the month, we suspect we shall need cope with another 3 weeks of lethargy before the markets start to feel awake again.

Then again, the US President seems to operate in accordance with his own rules, his visit to Scotland (and the UK) followed up by a visit to Scotland from his Vice President, staying very close to ourselves but we didn’t see him on Sunday, when we did a dog walk at Troon beach. While Scotland is undoubtedly a nice country, it’s questionable why the two chiefs of the USA decided to visit consecutively.  Our suspicion, aside from Ukraine & Gaza, there’s something else going on in the world, hinting at a possible effect on the markets. Or maybe the 26c sunshine has simply fried my brain.

 

For Lloyds, now above 84.25p looks capable of triggering movement to an initial 89.2p with our longer term secondary, if bettered, an astounding 110p. To be completely honest, closure above 89.2p shall be treated as extremely significant for the long term, an initial indication of the potential to visit share price levels not seen since 2008.

To utterly cancel our optimism, Lloyds share price needs close below 52p. But for now, we’re fairly happy, an unusual situation with a retail bank.

If things intend go into slowdown mode, below 73p allows for reversal to an initial 66p with our secondary, if broken, an eventual 61p and hopefully a rebound.

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
10:36:46PM	BRENT	6581.9	6541	6509	6456	6578	6630	6654	6692	6570
10:39:15PM	GOLD	3335.63
10:41:03PM	FTSE	9145.6
10:49:55PM	STOX50	5453.6
10:52:24PM	GERMANY	24376.4	24327	24252	24156	24392	24540	24601	24692	24426
10:54:32PM	US500	6446.2
10:59:14PM	DOW	44927
11:05:11PM	NASDAQ	23706.3
11:07:59PM	JAPAN	43451

 

15/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9138 points. Change of -0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,077,567,012 a change of 24.32%

14/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,888,645,281 a change of -12.34%

13/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9165 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,576,963,719 a change of 12.35%

12/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9147 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,963,866,673 a change of 14.87%

11/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9129 points. Change of 0.37%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,321,122,132 a change of -15.66%

8/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9095 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,123,576,118 a change of -18.06%

7/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9100 points. Change of -0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,252,889,741 a change of -8.09%

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:BARC Barclays Close Mid-Price: 371.15 Percentage Change: -1.00% Day High: 377.9 Day Low: 368.95

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LSE:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 230.5 Percentage Change: -2.33% Day High: 238.5 Day Low: 231

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LSE:IGG IG Group Close Mid-Price: 1138 Percentage Change: -0.96% Day High: 1153 Day Low: 1139

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 8.8 Percentage Change: -3.61% Day High: 9.16 Day Low: 8.35

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp. Close Mid-Price: 82.78 Percentage Change: -0.96% Day High: 84.16 Day Low: 82.78

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LSE:NWG Natwest Close Mid-Price: 544 Percentage Change: -1.70% Day High: 558.2 Day Low: 542.4

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 0.88 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0.88 Day Low: 0.82

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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey Close Mid-Price: 99.94 Percentage Change: -0.85% Day High: 102.1 Day Low: 99.84

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#FTSE #Gold  In Argyll, we’re conditioned to call a summer day around 18c as perfect and this week, with daytime temperatures exceeding 25c has proven difficult. Thursday saw me break a covenant with myself, choosing to wear shorts and sandals while cowering indoors! Eventually, the animals making it clear they wanted to go for a swim, the pair of mutts were loaded into the car and the roof lowered. We drove half a mile along the road to “the point”,  as isthmus of land along the road with a car park, giving access to the sea with the advantage any prevailing waves will hit either the East or West side of the beach, making the other side clear and calm.

The mutts spent an hour or so, swimming and diving for rocks, grudgingly returning to the car as their soaked coats made them impervious to the days heat. Which, of course, was the entire point of the exercise. Plus most dogs will sleep for 3 hours for every hour spent in water. This week, we’re a little overloaded with dogs, due to a neighbour enjoying a break at his Edinburgh house in the middle of an Edinburgh Festival month with good weather. His dog is even friendly with our unwanted cat, making it easy to offer a holiday home for the clown. The animals will even eat/drink from the same bowl at the same time, a truly odd cat & dog relationship which the cat would never dare with our own animals.

A harsh reality awaited around 8pm on Thursday. Discovering we were low on milk, a quick sprint to the local garage shop was needed. It transpires sandals/shorts/t-shirt don’t really work in a car with the roof down, once the sun has set and the Argyll temperature has plunged to 14c. Suffice to say, the audience at the local petrol station were entertained by the VW Eos digging its roof out of the boot and assembling all the bits, so the car looked like it was a hard top again. The process takes under 30 seconds but it wasn’t a surprise to see the insane little car was the centre of attention. Quite why VW no longer make them but then again, the Transformers movies use CGI to do what this mad car can enact in real life.

This is all designed to distract from the fact the FTSE has remained pretty boring this week, the car bought for the dogs proving more interesting than the UK index. However…

 

It looks like, should the FTSE manage to close above just 9187 points, a newer era should prove almost irresistible as market growth to an initial 9298 looks very possible with our secondary, if exceeded, a longer term 9733 points. Thanks to the UK index closing at 9177 points on Thursday, just 10 points short of our trigger level, we’re nervous providing a near term Long Position potential as things risk moving fast, especially if the Gremlins behind the curtain notice the index is right at the edge of a 500 point surge. Perhaps cynically, we do suspect some bad news shall emerge in coming days to slow things down, perhaps an announcement the UK Government has had a “good idea”.

 

Near term, currently below 9138 looks capable of triggering reversals to 9097 points with our secondary, if broken, at an eventual 9068, making it looks like there is a conspiracy to keep the market treading water during August. If triggered,. the tightest stop looks like 9153 points!

Have a good weekend, alas one without Formula1.

 

 

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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
10:15:20PM	BRENT	6647.9	6484	5988		6710	6670	6684		6618
10:17:23PM	GOLD	3334.92	3329	3317		3343	3367	3378		3341
10:34:21PM	FTSE	9208	9133	9125		9163	9216	9226		9188	‘cess
10:37:39PM	STOX50	5451.2	5373	5347		5403	5453	5466		5393	Success
10:39:48PM	GERMANY	24427	24116	24001		24230	24436	24551		24284	Success
10:41:25PM	US500	6468	6431	6419		6451	6474	6488		6454
10:44:12PM	DOW	45038.2	44678	44543		44876	45048	45101		44858
10:48:30PM	NASDAQ	23793.5	23500	23343		23725	23968	24167		23800
10:50:55PM	JAPAN	42795	42521	42502		42745	42895	43040		42712	Success

 

14/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9177 points. Change of 0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,888,645,281 a change of -12.34%

13/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9165 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,576,963,719 a change of 12.35%

12/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9147 points. Change of 0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,963,866,673 a change of 14.87%

11/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9129 points. Change of 0.37%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,321,122,132 a change of -15.66%

8/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9095 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,123,576,118 a change of -18.06%

7/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9100 points. Change of -0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,252,889,741 a change of -8.09%

6/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9164 points. Change of 0.24%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,802,933,143 a change of 19.42%

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:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 236 Percentage Change: -1.87% Day High: 242 Day Low: 236

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 553.4 Percentage Change: + 2.10% Day High: 555.2 Day Low: 542.4

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