Trends And Targets

#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.

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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.

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

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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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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:IGG IG Group** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **

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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:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 675.8 Percentage Change: + 2.55% Day High: 692 Day Low: 662.4

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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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#GOLD #WallSt   Massive cruise liners visiting the area are not unusual but today, one of the things took advantage of the deep water anchorage, parking outside our office window. Once, this would have demanded grabbing a camera and taking some snaps but today, becoming quite blasé about the things, I returned two very wet dogs after letting them swim for a few hours in a local river and remembered to take a couple of snapshots of the big ship with my mobile phone. From a tourism viewpoint, the ship anchored with perfect weather, the sea flat calm, 27c degrees of unpleasant heat, and several thousand tourists were doubtless lulled into believing they’d discovered a hidden gem. Locally, we’ve even got a couple of castles overlooking the loch, one of which actually very nice, if utterly hilarious. The owner and his wife fell out, so decided to partition off half the interior of the building. The massive front door opens to reveal the partition which continues up the middle of the staircase, terminating where the master staircase forks. But the partition is only 8 feet tall, the cost of reaching the very high ceiling deemed silly. This cunning plan was enacted in several areas of the building and they opted to seal off a couple of smaller external doors, making only one way possible to enter.

As for the dogs, we deemed it too hot to walk the monsters, suspecting they’d prefer spending time in water. This proved the case, both animals spending considerable time diving completely underwater while rescuing various rocks. The wet animals decided sleeping in the shade, on paving slabs, was necessary when we decided not to dry them.

Unfortunately, a problem awaited. After taking a few snapshots of the Carnival cruise liner, it gradually moved away heading out to sea. And of course, despite this massive floating muse giving inspiration for our headline share, my Samsung S10 decided to let me view the photographs, only discovering they were corrupted hours later when trying to upload them to a PC. Through various Samsung mobiles, the penny has finally dropped the smartphones don’t like storing data on an SD card. Regardless of the lack of a snapshot, it’s certainly worth taking a look at Carnival share price.

 

When we previously reviewed the price, we dangled a massive carrot to highlight the potentials, if it ever closed above our secondary target of 1899p. The price has obviously achieved this goal, so we’re inclined to review medium term possibilities for what’s probably coming next.

The next really big deal calculates as share price CLOSURE above 2125p triggering further recovery to an initial 2676p with our secondary, if beaten, at a future 3093p.

Perhaps this will float someone’s boat!

If things intend go wrong, below 1870 is needed to promote reversal to an initial 1725p. Our secondary, should such a level be punctured, works out at 1281p and a probable 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	Prior
10:57:25PM	BRENT	6545.8
11:01:04PM	GOLD	3355.4	3342	3321	3292	3354	3370	3382	3399	3350	‘cess
11:04:54PM	FTSE	9148.3									‘cess
11:22:51PM	STOX50	5391.6									‘cess
11:37:56PM	GERMANY	24211
11:39:52PM	US500	6466.9									‘cess
11:45:41PM	DOW	44950.2	44408	44394	44201	44628	44969	45217	45835	44752	Success
11:48:20PM	NASDAQ	23860.7
11:51:06PM	JAPAN	43081

 

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%

5/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9142 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,696,529,731 a change of -2.04%

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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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY Close Mid-Price: 553 Percentage Change: -2.73% Day High: 580 Day Low: 544

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo Close Mid-Price: 1701 Percentage Change: -1.96% Day High: 1769 Day Low: 1691

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LSE:MRO Melrose Close Mid-Price: 589.8 Percentage Change: -1.11% Day High: 602.2 Day Low: 591.2

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 542 Percentage Change: + 1.01% Day High: 544.2 Day Low: 537

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered Close Mid-Price: 1406 Percentage Change: -1.33% Day High: 1432.5 Day Low: 1399

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 0.88 Percentage Change: -5.41% Day High: 0.92 Day Low: 0.88

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#FTSE # JAPANWe received an email telling us they’d been recommended LSEG as a “Strong Buy” and asking our take on the companies recent price movements.  Apparently the reason for optimism is the company announced a “share buy back” program and generally anything which reduces the number of shares offered will tend force share price improvements. However, perhaps as repayment for LSEG’s markets, often feeling like they are part of the overall “put the UK down” misery rather than give cause for optimism. In recent years, there certainly is reason to question the number of companies delisting from the FTSE, expecting success in the USA or Europe.

To cut a long story short, LSEG’s share price isn’t reflecting the usual boost from a Share Buyback initiative, quite the opposite currently.

Embracing the misery usually seen against UK shares suffering a problem, below 9036p for LSEG risks triggering reversal to an initial 8003p with our secondary, if broken, at 8400p and an attempt to match the low of the year Covid-19 made our lives so much fun. Surprisingly, the bounce from the 2020 low quickly exceeded the highs from before the artificial drop was invented, creating a situation where recovery to 11900p could be calculated as possible. LSEG achieved this recovery at the start of 2025, even exceeding our 11900 target for a handful of sessions before falling backward quite dramatically.

 

However, who knows. Perhaps our invective about the poor performance of UK markets in comparison to the USA is underserved and LSEG shall experience a rapid turnaround in fortunes.

This being the case, maybe movement above just 10,020 (Blue) shall trigger recovery to an initial 10,774 with our longer term secondary, if bettered, at 11,205p. This secondary is liable to prove an issue, taking the share price into a zone where a distant 12,695 is seen as presenting a distant attraction. And this would be a miracle, a new all time high and a sign the UK is evincing hope for the future…

 

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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
10:17:57PM	BRENT	6582.6
10:20:32PM	GOLD	3347.79
10:25:07PM	FTSE	9166.5	9119	9107	9086	9139	9171	9184	9220	9141	Success
10:47:13PM	STOX50	5352.6									‘cess
10:51:33PM	GERMANY	24136.8									‘cess
10:56:44PM	US500	6445.8									‘cess
10:59:56PM	DOW	44446.7
11:02:25PM	NASDAQ	23836.2
11:05:15PM	JAPAN	43281	42576	42249	41872	42828	43384	43770	44348	43033	Success

 

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%

5/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9142 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,696,529,731 a change of -2.04%

4/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9128 points. Change of 0.66%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,815,366,472 a change of 5.59%

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: 568.5 Percentage Change: + 2.25% Day High: 566.5 Day Low: 556

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LSE:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 243 Percentage Change: -1.82% Day High: 248 Day Low: 238.5

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 83.04 Percentage Change: + 0.73% Day High: 83.34 Day Low: 82.58

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LSE:MRO Melrose. Close Mid-Price: 596.4 Percentage Change: + 2.58% Day High: 595 Day Low: 582.2

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 536.6 Percentage Change: + 0.68% Day High: 539 Day Low: 532.6

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LSE:SPX Spirax. Close Mid-Price: 6845 Percentage Change: + 12.95% Day High: 7200 Day Low: 6640

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1425 Percentage Change: + 2.15% Day High: 1428 Day Low: 1408

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LSE:TLW Tullow. Close Mid-Price: 10.24 Percentage Change: + 10.94% Day High: 10.52 Day Low: 9.01

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#Gold #SP500  News the UK is establishing over 40,000 Construction Engineering places isn’t entirely a surprise. Broadcast as an initiative to cease relying on immigrants (we thought they were all Doctors), the construction industry is reputed to be something of a multi language field, where once the biggest challenge was understanding just what the bloke from ‘Derry just said! Bovis Homes, now Vistry, had a quite dreadful reputation, probably worse than that achieved by Barratt, and their merger with Galliford Try and subsequent rename has managed to slightly conceal many of the dire historical stories. But when we search for negative PR work affecting Vistry, the worst story appears to be their decision to become Lumberjacks, cutting down around 50 ancient trees to build houses.

However, releasing three profit warnings in 2024 seems to be provoking nastier behaviour than grabbing a chainsaw, perhaps not entirely a surprise. But the stranger thing is when we review Bovis/Vistry share price since 2007, their share price has effectively ignored the banking crisis, Covid-19, and even the current government. It has essentially fluttered above and below 866p for 18 years but failed to do anything to establish a longer term sense of direction. This absurd visual reality suggests a trading bandwidth between 270p and around 1400p, seriously wide and potentially seriously profitable – if the share continues to follow historical behaviour.

 

Currently, movement above 660p should trigger share price gains in the direction of 739p next with our secondary, if bettered, calculating at 825p. Only with closure above 739 shall we dare regard this as being attracted by a long term third level target at 933p.

However, our alternate scenario which feels more likely, suggests the danger of weakness below Red (presently 508p) triggering reversal down to an eventual 434p with our secondary, if broken, an eventual bottom at 282p. Hopefully, such a secondary level shall be followed by a bounce if it appears, presently a strong long position potential.

This one is messy but perhaps 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
10:34:26PM	BRENT	6641.7
10:37:39PM	GOLD	3343.32	3341	3333	3308	3361	3365	3374	3385	3343	Success
10:40:03PM	FTSE	9125.1
10:42:05PM	STOX50	5329.5
10:47:37PM	GERMANY	24072.4
10:53:23PM	US500	6372	6364	6360	6344	6390	6408	6421	6458	6383
10:56:32PM	DOW	43973.2
11:00:44PM	NASDAQ	23535.6
11:02:55PM	JAPAN	42234

 

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%

5/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9142 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,696,529,731 a change of -2.04%

4/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9128 points. Change of 0.66%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,815,366,472 a change of 5.59%

1/08/2025 FTSE Closed at 9068 points. Change of -0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,507,518,764 a change of -29.16%

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:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1395 Percentage Change: + 0.54% Day High: 1395 Day Low: 1384.5

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 0.92 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0.92 Day Low: 0.9

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LSE:TLW Tullow Close Mid-Price: 9.23 Percentage Change: -7.61% Day High: 10.02 Day Low: 9.26

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