Trends And Targets

#Gold #SP500 With a week to go until the 2026 F1 Circus returns to school in Melbourne, Australia, we remain fascinated as to whether the performance of the Aston Martin F1 team has any bearing on their share price movements. Should this be the case,  Aston’s price so far this year tends broadcast an expectation of a pretty foul year for them on the race circuits. Between using Honda engines, along with retaining drivers such as Stroll and Alonso, they are certainly sewing the seeds of disappointment for times ahead.

Share price movements look especially bad for Aston Martin, our calculations showing movement below just 54p risks triggering reversal down to an initial 45p with our secondary, if broken, working out at 30p amd am a;,pst certain bottom with a hopeful rebound.   In a perfect world, the share would bounce at 45p but we certainly have our doubts.

Maybe there’s a chance things could go right for Aston Martin, their share price needing to close a session above just 62p to tick a box which, according to our logic, should provide early warning for a change in market mood. Such a scenario, suggests above 62p could trigger a recovery cycle to an initial 76p with our secondary, if beaten, at  88p in the longer term. At such a level we shall feel a need to re-run the numbers, due to a future 110p apparently introducing a Big Picture attraction.

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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
10:38:33PM	BRENT	7080									‘cess
10:41:58PM	GOLD	5164.54	5140	5106	5069	5175	5194	5212	5235	5174	‘cess
10:48:23PM	FTSE	10819.3									Success
10:51:36PM	STOX50	6186.5									Success
10:55:19PM	GERMANY	25231.5									Success
10:58:51PM	US500	6962.7	6918	6901	6878	6944	6969	6981	7005	6924	Success
11:01:58PM	DOW	49451									‘cess
11:06:14PM	NASDAQ	25340									Success
11:10:25PM	JAPAN	59731									Success

 

25/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10806 points. Change of 1.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,613,928,989 a change of 413.26%

24/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10680 points. Change of -0.04%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 1,678,265,417 a change of -75.91%

23/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10684 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,967,110,577 a change of -9.04%

20/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,659,209,162 a change of -16.29%

19/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10627 points. Change of -0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,149,830,600 a change of 23.38%

18/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 1.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,416,218,337 a change of 13.36%

17/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10556 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,541,923,736 a change of 30.7%

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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LSE:AAL Anglo American. Close Mid-Price: 3829 Percentage Change: + 4.39% Day High: 3877 Day Low: 3731

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LSE:AML Aston Martin Close Mid-Price: 55.25 Percentage Change: -2.90% Day High: 59.75 Day Low: 54.7

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LSE:BME B & M Close Mid-Price: 190.4 Percentage Change: -2.38% Day High: 196.15 Day Low: 188.95

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LSE:FOXT Foxtons Close Mid-Price: 48.4 Percentage Change: -0.72% Day High: 48.75 Day Low: 48.4

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 534.5 Percentage Change: + 2.93% Day High: 536.3 Day Low: 526.2

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1394 Percentage Change: + 7.94% Day High: 1390.2 Day Low: 1335.4

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 250 Percentage Change: + 6.61% Day High: 251.5 Day Low: 249

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LSE:IQE IQE. Close Mid-Price: 16.02 Percentage Change: + 31.31% Day High: 17.42 Day Low: 12.2

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury Close Mid-Price: 358.6 Percentage Change: -0.22% Day High: 361.2 Day Low: 354.4

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LSE:TRN The Trainline Close Mid-Price: 188 Percentage Change: -7.48% Day High: 196.2 Day Low: 186

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#FTSE #WallSt On our previous review of HSBC almost a year ago, the share price was 863p and we speculated on a future target of 1095p. Obviously, this target level was achieved and exceeded with an exquisite set of dance steps last November as shown on the fascinating chart excerpt below. Okay, we found it fascinating as it confirmed our target level and proved it could be bettered. On the 2025 report chart, we painted 1201p as a potential future level but didn’t bother mentioning it, expecting to revisit the share long before it became an issue.  This third level target level was also attained, confirmed, and exceeded in early January, again shown on a chart extract below.

A major Oops, though with curiously similar dance steps to the November 2025 target breach..

 

HSBC opted to join the UK banking share price party and has (thus far) exhibited extraordinary strength.

From our perspective, the next hurdle for the share resided at 1315p, a target level recently attained and even very slightly exceeded, the share price closing a session at 1318p in early February. The big question now is simple; can we anticipate even more flamboyance in the period ahead?

We’re inclined to advocate caution. Currently, above 1323p paints 1376p as an initial target with our secondary, if bettered, at a future 1409p. We are more than a little nervous, thanks to the Big Picture. Our calculations which date back to the banking crisis of 2009 suggest we should only admit 1376p as a major target. Anything higher, in this instance, would take the share into difficult territory, making us suspect some real hesitation should be anticipated at 1376p. In fact, given the share value, this could be effectively anytime now.

If trouble is planned, below 1222p risks becoming an issue as this threatens reversal down to an initial 1151p with our secondary, if broken, working out at 1133p and an almost certain bounce.

Once again, we’re getting a little worried about banking sector prices…

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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
11:09:46PM	BRENT	7098.9
11:22:54PM	GOLD	5142.83
11:25:43PM	FTSE	10707.9	10643	10620	10585	10680	10724	10748	10783	10687
11:27:51PM	STOX50	6130.8
11:29:47PM	GERMANY	25026.7
11:32:15PM	US500	6888.8
11:18:31PM	DOW	49154.1	48759	48629	48407	48977	49300	49446	49675	49140
11:23:47PM	NASDAQ	25051.5
11:39:47PM	JAPAN	58000									Success

 

24/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10680 points. Change of -0.04%. Total value traded through LSE was: data error, a change of -75.91%

23/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10684 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,967,110,577 a change of -9.04%

20/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,659,209,162 a change of -16.29%

19/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10627 points. Change of -0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,149,830,600 a change of 23.38%

18/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 1.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,416,218,337 a change of 13.36%

17/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10556 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,541,923,736 a change of 30.7%

16/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10473 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,005,351,962 a change of -53.38%

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: 56.95 Percentage Change: -1.64% Day High: 58.5 Day Low: 56.35

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LSE:BME B & M. Close Mid-Price: 191.75 Percentage Change: + 1.78% Day High: 192.55 Day Low: 186.5

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LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G. Close Mid-Price: 42.4 Percentage Change: + 0.47% Day High: 45 Day Low: 41.8

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LSE:FOXT Foxtons Close Mid-Price: 48.75 Percentage Change: -0.51% Day High: 48.75 Day Low: 48.6

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LSE:IGG IG Group Close Mid-Price: 1031 Percentage Change: -0.44% Day High: 570 Day Low: 570

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance Close Mid-Price: 234.5 Percentage Change: -0.44% Day High: 570 Day Low: 570

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LSE:PHP Primary Health Close Mid-Price: 107.6 Percentage Change: -0.44% Day High: 570 Day Low: 570

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 505.2 Percentage Change: + 1.24% Day High: 508 Day Low: 498.3

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#Gold #Nasdaq We’ve received a few emails asking us to review this share. Generally, from the tone of things, we tend suspect the price is being “ramped” in a discussion forum or perhaps even the financial media. And as a result, it’s probably worth some investigation before taking any risks, despite the potentials being fairly impressive.  Oddly, we had a good reason to be fascinated by this odd sounding share. It is named after a Scottish mountain we’d actually climbed!

In May one year, a Saturday evening in our village “pub” brought a commitment to meet up the next morning and climb a mountain. To be honest, alcohol was involved and four folk volunteered to meet up early on Sunday to drive into Perthshire and ruin a civilised Sunday morning. At 6am, we piled into a Mercedes estate and to be honest, the usual banter was completely absent as aside from the driver, three of us were mentally reviewing our sanity in agreeing to this adventure. But the blue skies made it look like an excellent day was ahead and Billy = the driver and the clown whose idea this was – had been fastidious in checking our choice of clothing in footwear before we tackled what is probably Scotlands easiest Munro (over 3,000 feet) mountain to climb.

We arrived at “base camp”, a big roadside lay-by – and could only eye the sky with some hesitation. The problem was, despite it being the start of May and our group being mostly sober, a few flakes of snow were falling and this is never a good thing in the Scottish mountains. Most rescue stories start with a similar scenario, the inexperienced tourist claiming the snow wasn’t even lying when they set out to climb in trainers, shorts, and usually a hoodie. Unfortunately, the four of us didn’t have such an excuse. We were all fairly serious skiers, we all had the right footwear and clothing, and if it were not for the inevitable group bravado, we should have abandoned the plan in the car park, the closest point to our target mountain.

But unfortunately, fortified by coffee and bacon rolls, a few flakes of white stuff were not going to dissuade our gang of hero’s, so we started the long, cold, tedious, uphill walk to allow everyone to tick this mountain off the list we’d not previously climbed. Inevitable, whiteout conditions prevailed but unfortunately, it was relatively easy to follow the well trodden path we’d chosen. Sometime around noon, arriving at the summit, any ideas of photographs to commemorate the occasion were forgotten, a round of handshakes through ski gloves, along with a quick toast of foul whisky, we turned tail and headed down. By 1pm, we were back in the Mercedes, admiring the now snow covered ground and planning were to get lunch. The village of Kenmore was an obvious choice, its incredibly scenic location hosting a fairly nice hotel/pub. And by 6pm, we were all home.

The only fly in the ointment, after completing the miserable climb, was  TV news. Across the highlands of Scotland, quite a few folk had been caught out with blizzard conditions in the mountains, two folk dead in the Cairngorms. We all knew, from the conditions while we thankfully descended the slopes, our climb had only been possible with our choice of clothing and anyone tackling Schiehallion without following the well marked tourist trail would have found themselves in a lot of trouble, very quickly. While the rest of the UK was welcoming Spring, the Scottish mountains retained their voracious appetite for victims. All things considered, we never gathered to climb a mountain again, preferring to ski down the things.

Hopefully Schiehallion share price doesn’t share similar tastes to the mountain which the investment trust is named after. The name derives allegedly from Gaelic and an impossible term which translates at “Fairy Mountain”. Another story claims the mountain is named after the shape of a female breast. Who knows…

Currently, above 1.8p should allegedly trigger share price movement to an initial 2.14p with our longer term secondary, if bettered, calculating at an impressive 2.7p. It certainly has potentials but similar to the mountain from which it takes its name, also has dangers, needing below 1.2p to justify serious concern.

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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
10:29:18PM	BRENT	7106.8
10:31:47PM	GOLD	5237.65	5123	5079	5022	5167	5250	5279	5316	5145	Success
10:34:05PM	FTSE	10693									Shambles
10:37:37PM	STOX50	6124.7
10:41:21PM	GERMANY	25004.4									‘cess
10:44:13PM	US500	6850.3									Shambles
10:47:23PM	DOW	48860.5									Success
10:50:31PM	NASDAQ	24751.4	24614	24528	24345	24771	24983	25085	25242	24806
10:53:45PM	JAPAN	56719

 

23/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10684 points. Change of -0.02%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,967,110,577 a change of -9.04%

20/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,659,209,162 a change of -16.29%

19/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10627 points. Change of -0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,149,830,600 a change of 23.38%

18/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 1.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,416,218,337 a change of 13.36%

17/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10556 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,541,923,736 a change of 30.7%

16/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10473 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,005,351,962 a change of -53.38%

13/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10446 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,736,069,118 a change of 25.25%

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:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G. Close Mid-Price: 42.2 Percentage Change: + 9.61% Day High: 42.4 Day Low: 38.5

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LSE:IQE IQE. Close Mid-Price: 12.78 Percentage Change: + 21.95% Day High: 12.76 Day Low: 10.6

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 0.45 Percentage Change: + 5.88% Day High: 0.45 Day Low: 0.42

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LSE:TLW Tullow. Close Mid-Price: 10.2 Percentage Change: + 2.93% Day High: 11.14 Day Low: 9.79

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#Brent #Dax It’s funny to think it was ‘only’ 19 years ago, when a bunch of analysts were confidently suggesting Barclays confident rise from just above 3 quid could continue, the troublesome 8 quid level probably becoming a historical footnote on what looked like a remorseless gain toward the 10 pound level. This was 2007, the share price within weeks of discovering gravity and commencing an unbelievable and cruel cycle which was to explore what would happen, if the price was to eventually hit the 60p level.

There are probably still people out there who bought into the fiction Barclays shares were “cheap” while they flirted with the 8 pound level, making an investment on the basis analysts knew what they were talking about. These days were truly horrendous to live through, the financial crash through to 2009 producing numbers we simply couldn’t conceive. Our software, back in the early days of trying to produce realistic targets, highlighted a potential 94p as an ultimate drop target, a price level below which we couldn’t produce any numbers without introducing minus signs.

Barclays were far from alone in this diabolical mess but one thing we’ve noticed in the years since. If a share price breaks our “Ultimate” drop target, it has a quite dreadful job in trying to recover until something major occurs, a news release involving discovering a goose and golden eggs. We note, with considerable scepticism, the current hype around AI essentially attempts to introduce a similar positive impossible concept.

We mention the foregoing, just as a reminder things can go horribly wrong, though there are currently NO signals any of the retail banking sector. It is still the case Barclays share price needs CLOSE a session below 389p to throw our optimism for the future into the bonfire of flammable dreams. It is currently the case, where weakness below 459 threatens to trigger reversal to an initial 437 with our secondary, if broken, at 393p and a very hopeful bounce. We’re painfully aware such a ridiculous secondary target is dangerously close to our danger level of 389p.

However, from a current perspective, we suspect movement above 487p should be useful, ideally triggering a cycle of further gains to an initial 529p with our secondary, if bettered, at 558p, a price level at which we now anticipate some hesitation. While the Big Picture places the share on a theoretical cycle to 704p, we shall be quite nervous if it ever makes it above 558p.

Finally, we’ve been fascinated at the efforts of a couple from London who’ve left the city and are attempting to to build a home in the local highlands. This weeks YouTube diary entry had amusing complaints. Apparently it is either too wet to do anything or, too cold as the ground freezes solid. And rigging tarpaulin covers to create dry work areas is impossible, due to wind. Basically, Scotland can stink for 8 months of the year. Buying property, due to mistaken impressions while on holiday, can be an error capable of eating the soul. While perhaps a little pathetic, it’s funny and enjoyable watching a young couple discover reality.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
9:50:20PM	BRENT	7118.9	6960	6898	6802	7149	7274	7385	7891	6734
9:53:03PM	GOLD	5106.68
9:56:33PM	FTSE	10720.3
11:22:54PM	STOX50	6132.8
11:26:18PM	GERMANY	25159.7	25000	24956	24828	25143	25334	25392	25532	25177
11:29:15PM	US500	6874.2
11:31:07PM	DOW	49430.4
11:39:16PM	NASDAQ	24838.3
11:41:29PM	JAPAN	56621

 

20/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,659,209,162 a change of -16.29%

19/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10627 points. Change of -0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,149,830,600 a change of 23.38%

18/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 1.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,416,218,337 a change of 13.36%

17/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10556 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,541,923,736 a change of 30.7%

16/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10473 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,005,351,962 a change of -53.38%

13/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10446 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,736,069,118 a change of 25.25%

12/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10402 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,571,766,423 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.

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: 775.5 Percentage Change: + 0.85% Day High: 781.5 Day Low: 773.5

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LSE:BME B & M Close Mid-Price: 186.05 Percentage Change: -0.72% Day High: 190.2 Day Low: 184.75

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LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G Close Mid-Price: 38.5 Percentage Change: -0.77% Day High: 39 Day Low: 37.5

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LSE:FOXT Foxtons Close Mid-Price: 49.1 Percentage Change: -1.41% Day High: 49.8 Day Low: 48.35

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 14 Percentage Change: + 7.69% Day High: 14.5 Day Low: 12.75

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LSE:WG. Wood Group. Close Mid-Price: 26.88 Percentage Change: + 0.67% Day High: 27.1 Day Low: 26.8

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#FTSE #WallSt Quite a few years ago, managing to horrify a hotel full of Americans proved to be a real cultural surprise. We were on our annual ski trip to Vail, Colorado and it had become “a thing” for me to fetch my guitar sometime after dinner. I’d play while getting very drunk, often relinquishing the instrument to other hotel guests who felt able to humiliate themselves in the same manner as myself. To be fair, the hotel bar has become regularly very busy, its character changing from a bunch of folk retelling their days ski adventures to a bunch of folk sometimes singing their heads off.

On a Tuesday evening, after dinner, our gang of 10 Brits made ourselves comfortable around the fire pit, the bar served us a round of drinks and the barman kept a close eye on one of the many televisions surrounding the bar area. Absently noticing the TV volumes were up, I settled down to tune the guitar (a nightmare 12 string) and led into Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” melody. The bar manager made his way across, hissing I couldn’t play as the president was on TV. It transpired this was the annual “State of The Union” address and unlike the UK and political broadcasts, people were paying close attention to what their President was saying.

Our little gang of skiers quietly respected the reverence with which folk were listening to the TV but in truth, all we talked about was the massive difference in culture between the US and the UK. The idea of people falling silent to listen to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on a telly was truly an alien concept, yet we were surrounded by Americans who thought President Bush might say something important. While there are innumerable differences between the two countries, this was one which had to be experienced as we’d never have believed it. The following evening, turning up without a guitar led to apologies about the Presidential interruption, along with questions about our equivalent in the UK.  While the closest may be the Royal Address at Christmas, personally I don’t think I’ve ever seen it. In our house, at Christmas the TV would only be turned on to watch “The Great Escape”….

With next Tuesday being “The State of The Union” from President Trump, it should be interesting watching the markets on Wednesday as those who think they understand politicians choose their own interpretation of their Great Leaders words. Then again, we may watch it ourselves, due to President Trump being ‘different’!

Currently, below 10,600 suggests the potential for near term weakness to an initial 10,565 points. Our secondary, if broken, works out at 10,516 points. If triggered, the tightest stop loss looks like 10,635 points. Overall, there is the potential of further slippage to 10,362 points in the event 10,516 breaks but we lack confidence in such a movement.

In our usual alternate scenario, the FTSE needs exceed 10,672 points to trigger a visit to an initial 10,713 points. Our ‘longer term’ secondary, if this initial is exceeded, calculates at 10,782 points.

Have a good weekend. Only a short while to the first GP of 2026 on 8th March. Hopefully better telly than a US president droning on about the best country in the world.

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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
11:13:19PM	BRENT	7154	6989	6910		7100	7165	7239		7063	‘cess
11:16:03PM	GOLD	4998.1	4959	4931		4984	5023	5072		4993
11:20:24PM	FTSE	10660.8	10596	10568		10632	10670	10687		10642	Success
11:28:43PM	STOX50	6059.4	6038	6027		6057	6065	6076		6044	‘cess
11:32:34PM	GERMANY	25020	24968	24926		25037	25123	25180		24996
11:47:58PM	US500	6864.8	6833	6797		6869	6910	6923		6854
11:53:28PM	DOW	49422.9	49201	48996		49447	49893	50100		49571
11:56:08PM	NASDAQ	24810.2	24691	24605		24886	25004	25087		24847

 

19/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10627 points. Change of -0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,149,830,600 a change of 23.38%

18/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 1.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,416,218,337 a change of 13.36%

17/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10556 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,541,923,736 a change of 30.7%

16/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10473 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,005,351,962 a change of -53.38%

13/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10446 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,736,069,118 a change of 25.25%

12/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10402 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,571,766,423 a change of 6.33%

11/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10472 points. Change of 1.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,061,814,273 a change of -0.89%

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:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 479 Percentage Change: + 2.02% Day High: 484.1 Day Low: 467.65

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LSE:EMG MAN Close Mid-Price: 272.8 Percentage Change: -2.15% Day High: 281 Day Low: 270.6

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LSE:MRO Melrose Close Mid-Price: 665.4 Percentage Change: -2.41% Day High: 682.6 Day Low: 661

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments Close Mid-Price: 2615 Percentage Change: -1.13% Day High: 2680 Day Low: 2600

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 13 Percentage Change: + 10.64% Day High: 13 Day Low: 11.75

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#Stoxx #SP500 Examine the markets for long enough and you’ll start to develop stupid, probably unfounded, dislikes for certain share names. In our own case, we’ve an irrational dislike of share names which reside in the bottom end of the alphabetical listings, anything which starts with N through to Z. Strangely though, when we examine listings over the most recent 10 years,  it used to be the case we reported daily on 45 shares from the start of the alphabet through to “M” and a further 45 for the latter half. Nowadays, despite obvious additions over the years, we report on 43 shares from the first half and only 29 from the end bit of the alphabet.

Our irrational dislike of share names is somehow based on factual representation on the index’s. Sometimes, we suspect the last part of the alphabet suffers a thin time, due to basic laziness, analysts getting bored as they plough down what feels like an endless list of share names. Our software, on the other hand, doesn’t give a sod where a share appears in the alphabet, just focussing on the numbers. But make no mistake, dangle a share with a name beginning in the likes of “O”, “P”, “W” or “Z” in front of us and mentally, we immediately suspect the worst. It’s bizarre to also not popular alphabetical letters such as “R” and “S” will often do better than expected whereas “T’s” will often find themselves on the shelf.

As we said, this absurdity makes no sense but when a few emails ask us to examine Pan African, our default mode was not entirely positive, instead anticipating trouble before we’ve even run the numbers. However…

LSE:PAF were a component of the UK AIM Market, also listed on Jo’burg, SA. But from October 2025, Pan African were promoted to the FTSE 250, the share price doubling in the period since and currently it feels like it’s primed for further happy days ahead. Obviously, as a Gold Miner, the company should not be suffering pain from current record prices for Gold. Amusingly, mentioning to my wife and daughter the “choker” necklaces I’d asked a friend to design for each as Xmas presents back in the year 2000, were made of White Gold. This produced similar looks of panic from each as they tried to remember where the jewellery was. In my wifes case, the “choker” was serving duty as a necklace holder on the wall, whereas our daughter retrieved hers from the bedroom of one of the grandchildren, discovering it was now painted purple and bent into a shape which fitted neatly into a case for felt pens. Neither had given great thought to the actual weight of the Christmas presents but the sudden awareness their “boring” Hallmarked presents were now probably worth more than £5,000 apiece was a real giggle. I did learn a lesson from the original experience, choosing to never, ever, give jewellery as presents as I’d clearly no idea what my wife, nor daughter, actually liked.

Essentially, if I’d my way, gold would now only be used to conduct electricity with maximum efficiency, rather than wasted on the foibles of women!

As for Pan African share price, above an attractive 161p looks capable of provoking further growth to an initial 166p with our secondary, if bettered, at 183p and a point at which we anticipate some sort of hesitation, essentially a point at which the share price should bounce around a bit while it establishes new trend potentials.

Should things intend go a bit wrong, below 143p risks triggering reversal to an initial 131p with our secondary, if broken, at 117p and a reasonable chance for the share price to search for future trend possibilities.

For now, we’re fairly optimistic.

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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
10:54:45PM	BRENT	6963.1									‘cess
10:58:05PM	GOLD	4962.03									‘cess
11:00:53PM	FTSE	10672.9									Success
11:06:00PM	STOX50	6095.8	6076	6066	6051	6095	6112	6156	6225	6080	Success
11:08:48PM	GERMANY	25256									Success
11:20:20PM	US500	6884	6832	6749	6668	6884	6909	6916	6962	6862	‘cess
11:25:58PM	DOW	49659									‘cess
11:28:56PM	NASDAQ	24897.8									‘cess
11:32:47PM	JAPAN	57560									‘cess

 

18/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10686 points. Change of 1.23%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,416,218,337 a change of 13.36%

17/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10556 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,541,923,736 a change of 30.7%

16/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10473 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,005,351,962 a change of -53.38%

13/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10446 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,736,069,118 a change of 25.25%

12/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10402 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,571,766,423 a change of 6.33%

11/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10472 points. Change of 1.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,061,814,273 a change of -0.89%

10/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10353 points. Change of -0.32%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,133,860,971 a change of 2.3%

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: 781 Percentage Change: + 0.58% Day High: 779.5 Day Low: 772.5

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LSE:CNA Centrica Close Mid-Price: 196 Percentage Change: -0.20% Day High: 200 Day Low: 196

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 278.8 Percentage Change: + 1.90% Day High: 278.8 Day Low: 273

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LSE:FGP Firstgroup Close Mid-Price: 189.8 Percentage Change: -1.76% Day High: 196.5 Day Low: 190.3

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LSE:MRO Melrose. Close Mid-Price: 681.8 Percentage Change: + 1.79% Day High: 681.6 Day Low: 670.8

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1324.5 Percentage Change: + 2.12% Day High: 1333 Day Low: 1298

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 11.75 Percentage Change: + 4.44% Day High: 11.75 Day Low: 11.15

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LSE:TSCO Tesco Close Mid-Price: 494.2 Percentage Change: -0.06% Day High: 499 Day Low: 492.6

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 116.1 Percentage Change: + 0.39% Day High: 120.9 Day Low: 115.5

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#FTSE #GOLD Rolls Royce shares have been mucking around since the start of this year, pretending to be rangebound between 12 quid and 13 quid. Perhaps in a couple of days, the share shall exhibit a proper sense of direction, needing only above 1307p to introduce the concept of even further growth being ahead. To a degree, the share price has been in “difficult” territory since May 2025. In April 2025, we’d produced 856p as a “top” target, a price level we’d some difficulty in calculating above. By the end of May, the share price closed above our 856p, entering uncharted territory and grudgingly increasing in price by over 50%!

It has been pretty impressive and perhaps a reflection on the companies work with nuclear power, their modular reactors already approved for us in the USA and going through the mill in Europe. We like the idea of a couple of big lorries turning up beside one of the record breaking potholes which litter UK roads, lowering a garden hose into the pothole puddle to draw off water to turn to steam. It’s easy to forget Nuclear power is “just” a modern steam engine, only instead of wood, coal, or oil fires supplying the heat, we’ve atoms bumping off each other, boiling water, creating steam, then turning a wheel to generate electricity. Then again, the big lorries may prefer lower their garden hose into a lake or river as this should give longer supply of product than found in local potholes here in Argyll.

Regardless, more power to Rolls Royce as their small modular reactors should become the smartest tool in the box to dismantle windfarms. It’s almost funny, listening to traditional left wing politicians such as the UK’s Corbyn, change their stance and favour nuclear as the way forward.

Currently, with a financial report due on the 26th of this month, there’s a reasonable chance Rolls Royce shall display another upward surge. Certainly, since January 13th, the market has almost hired a billboard saying “The £13 Level is Sacrosanct” and therefore, anything above the prior high of 1307p should be significant, allowing for movement to an initial 1328p with our secondary, if bettered, at 1373p. Overall, from a Big Picture perspective, we can introduce a potential high of 1420p, this being the point we can once again no longer calculate above. As shown historically with our 856p level, the concept of “maximum” means nothing to the market where Rolls Royce is concerned, other than the possibility of introducing a price level which may cause hesitation for a few days – or hours!

As always, we must speculate on the curse of the final paragraph, asking “what happens if RR stumbles below £12 quid?”

In such a scenario, below 1200p risks triggering reversal to an initial 1144p with our secondary, if broken, at 1088p. For now, we feel more gains are expected. Soon.

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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
10:37:14PM	BRENT	6695.2
10:42:08PM	GOLD	4877.89	4841	4810	4731	4911	4945	4979	5025	4902	‘cess
10:46:34PM	FTSE	10566.7	10483	10445	10398	10528	10587	10614	10693	10524	Success
10:49:40PM	STOX50	6024.7									‘cess
10:52:48PM	GERMANY	25008.3									‘cess
10:54:52PM	US500	6838.6
10:57:26PM	DOW	49508.7									‘cess
11:01:03PM	NASDAQ	24658.1									‘cess
11:03:14PM	JAPAN	56990									Success

 

17/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10556 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,541,923,736 a change of 30.7%

16/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10473 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,005,351,962 a change of -53.38%

13/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10446 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,736,069,118 a change of 25.25%

12/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10402 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,571,766,423 a change of 6.33%

11/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10472 points. Change of 1.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,061,814,273 a change of -0.89%

10/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10353 points. Change of -0.32%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,133,860,971 a change of 2.3%

9/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10386 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,950,643,906 a change of 17.72%

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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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 196.4 Percentage Change: + 1.50% Day High: 197.65 Day Low: 193.25

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1376.5 Percentage Change: + 0.25% Day High: 1399 Day Low: 1366.5

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LSE:TRN The Trainline. Close Mid-Price: 196.4 Percentage Change: + 1.60% Day High: 197 Day Low: 192.4

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 494.5 Percentage Change: + 1.06% Day High: 495.2 Day Low: 488.7

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