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Our world famous FTSE for Friday!

#FTSE #GOLD_Futures  On Thursday, a couple of important somethings happened. Firstly, the FTSE managed to close the session higher than any point since May 2024. More importantly, secondly we managed to have a guy turn up and finish building our #2 garden shed. This particular shed has been an issue, family volunteers arriving to help build it only to be challenged by the weather and my own efforts cancelled out by the impossibility of fitting the roof on my own, when we actually have decent weather. It’s been literally a year to the day since our #2 shed spontaneously decided to disassemble, when hit by a strong wind. The shed contents, including two large boxes of Xmas ornaments followed the share into the trees, the sight which awaited giving a classic “laugh or cry” moment the next morning.

We’d laid foundations for the new shed, then been frustrated at every attempt to build its replacement in a “safer” location. A local guy, doing some concrete work on our driveway, mentioned in passing he’d built around 20 of these sheds. To cement his argument, he boasted it would take around 150 minutes to assemble. We shook hands on a price, he arrived at 9am on Thursday and at 11.30am, announced he was finished and had another job to go to. After a year, we could finally get “stuff” out from under tarpaulins, down from the attic, and no longer have to move the damned Xmas tree bag every time a visitor expected to use the guest bedroom… Such was the excitement, it was easy to lose the ability to be impressed by anything the FTSE did.

 

As mentioned recently, we’ve long had a suspicion the UK market shall behave fairly flamboyantly once Mr Trumps coronation takes place on Monday. We didn’t enjoy watching the ridiculous effort to finally attain last Fridays target of 8293 points, the rise fading at the closing level of 8392 points. But with the index managing to close a session at a “higher high” and above the immediate downtrend, it would be churlish not to hope for some continued growth. Unfortunately, market futures with a high of 8432 tend suggest Friday will be a day, where any initial gains shall be swallowed by worldwide anguish at Mr Biden leaving the White House, signalling the end of what has been apparently the most corrupt presidency ever. Allegedly, dismantling an established “fee” system to speak to The President privately has thrown the Washington hierarchy into a tantrum, his wife and son apparently being the main beneficiary of .the “cash for access” system. Thankfully, nothing like this could happen in the UK, aside from the unpleasant detail there are claims his wife & son were inspired by the UK model, taking it to new levels.

 

Cutt6ing to the core issue, UK market futures achieved inspiring heights during the night, making us suspect the FTSE shall be spiked upwards at the market open, only to lose these gains as the day progresses. Our only consolation comes if the FTSE is spiked above 8425 as this should make a day of gains difficult to avoid.  In theory, such a triggering movement calculates with the potential of ongoing traffic to an initial 8461 points with our secondary, if bettered, an eventual 8569 points. If triggered, the tightest stop is ridiculous at 8350 points!

 

Our alternate scenario questions the potentials, should the FTSE meander below 8344 points. This threatens reversals to an initial 8323 points with secondary, if bettered, at 8304 along with a hopeful bounce.

Have a good weekend. Here in Argyll, we’re being threatened by Spring weather, the climate usually following such an occasion with something extreme involving wind, cold, rain, and probably axes.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:03:37PM BRENT 8074.3 7998 7950 8107 8204 8238 8056 ‘cess
11:48:51PM GOLD 2713.67 2690 2678 2703 2725 2745 2700 Success
11:24:37PM FTSE 8416.2 8346 8314 8386 8428 8441 8394 Success
11:27:41PM STOX50 5098.9 5026 5018 5054 5109 5119 5072 Success
11:45:36PM GERMANY 20636.8 20575 20524 20670 20713 20808 20583 ‘cess
11:48:31PM US500 5936.3 5916 5891 5954 5977 6009 5943 ‘cess
11:52:09PM DOW 43132.5 43046 42966 43240 43338 43477 43161
11:57:06PM NASDAQ 21077.9 21017 20952 21235 21405 21469 21200 ‘cess
12:00:07AM JAPAN 38096 38093 37981 38370 38520 38656 38330 Success

 

16/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8391 points. Change of 1.08%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,054,366,255 a change of -17.27%
15/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8301 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,109,137,300 a change of -9.61%
14/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8201 points. Change of -0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,758,270,581 a change of 5.88%
13/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8224 points. Change of -0.3%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,383,033,146 a change of 23.46%
10/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of -0.84%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,170,108,064 a change of -6.19%
9/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8319 points. Change of 11.63%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,511,068,613 a change of -13.81%
8/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 7452 points. Change of -9.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,394,228,390 a change of 16.2%

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

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

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

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

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 817.8 Percentage Change: + 1.67% Day High: 822.3 Day Low: 810.8

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LSE:IAG British Airways Close Mid-Price: 312.6 Percentage Change: -1.39% Day High: 320 Day Low: 311.8

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1046 Percentage Change: + 2.25% Day High: 1049 Day Low: 1018

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 38.2 Percentage Change: + 14.03% Day High: 38.9 Day Low: 33.5

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1067 Percentage Change: + 0.99% Day High: 1075 Day Low: 1059.5

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ImmuPharma Plc (LSE:IMM) and happier daze?

#Nasdaq #FTSE  For some reason, a personal impression “peptides” are baddies wasn’t entirely assuaged by a single sentence in the American website WebMD. They wrote “collagen peptides are possible safe”  in an article about their use in skin care, perhaps not the most glowing reference. However, ImmuPharma are a company specialising in the use and development of biopolymers, specifically peptides. Needless to say, some essential reading revealed rather more information than wanted about peptides and their ability to tick boxes in the delivery of medical solutions.

After rapidly educating ourselves above Peptides, our inclination was to cease knitting “Just Stop Peptides” t-shirts, upon discovery the  the chemical group is capable of taking a sneaky route to deliver essential medicines to fix issues with the human body..  From a personal perspective, this is a “good thing” as it’s quite tiresome, when every 4 or 5 years, my body decides to say “nope” to whatever chemotherapy is being given, demanding a regime change to whatever poison is next on the list. It’s certainly strange how the human body will decide to reject a drug, then experience withdrawal effects while you stop taking it. And then, there is a slow build up to acclimatise yourself to the next drug regime, along with its unpleasant side effects which will make themselves known over the next year or two. It is rarely an enjoyable process and any regime which introduces a better way of sneaking poisons into the body gets my somewhat biased vote! Unlike politicians, it appears some peptides can be good!

 

Judging by share price movements, the company is undoubtedly being talked about on the internet with the visuals “proving” the deramping squad of chatroom  posters me be correct. But there’s something worth paying attention to and it’s a share price twitch which happened on January 9th. Doubtless due to some news perceived as positive (see chart inset), the stock market opted to “gap” the share above the downtrend since late 2020, the initial surge launching the price into quite an interesting zone where some price recovery is possible. By doing this, it appears rabid traders believed the world had changed for the substantially better and perhaps they were right. But from the misty damp corners of internet chatrooms, pearls of wisdom were soon being given, doubting absolutely everything which was going on, percentage gains approaching zonko percent as unreliable and unlikely to stick.

This is one of these daft scenario, where it becomes possible both sides of the argument may be correct!

When we review what the market did on the 9th of this month, it was a statement “this share is no longer viewed as going down”, creating a situation where within minutes, it experienced gains of around 100%. This incredible optimism lasted for almost 4 hours before the share price again accelerated, now driven by buyer demand to complete the session nearly 300% up. Even cynical old hands like ourselves will generally quickly warn this is unsustainable, except for the niggling movement of the market right at the open of trade. When a trend line dating back 5 years is wilfully broken, it always tends mean something important though the speed of price recovery may well prove just a little silly.

From a near term perspective, there is certainly a scenario presenting the threat of “little risk” reversals as we anticipate a bounce at one or the other reversal levels. An immediate perspective suggests weakness next below 2.75p shall prove reversal to 2.2p and hopefully a bounce. It’s certainly be a nice level to anticipate life beginning again. But should 2.2p be broken by any substantial amount, our secondary calculates at 1.31p, a share price level where a bottom firm enough to attract a UK politicians interest should appear! Such a target matches the historical level of trend break early in January, logic alone demanding a rebound should it appear. We tend favour the initial target around 2.2p as a bounce point, visually, it makes more sense.

 

However, should things continue to go right for LSE:IMM, above just 3.6 should prove significant, in a perfect world triggering further movement to an initial 4.25 with secondary at a visually important 5.65, this launching the share price into a zone where a future Long Term 8.9p could be dreamed of.

 

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:20:45PM BRENT 8197.2 Success
11:25:06PM GOLD 2697.38 Success
11:27:57PM FTSE 8323.2 8250 8218 8179 8288 8331 8357 8390 8309 Success
11:42:31PM STOX50 5042.5 Success
11:45:57PM GERMANY 20653.5 Success
11:50:46PM US500 5959.1 Success
11:43:34PM DOW 43294 Success
11:46:31PM NASDAQ 21254.3 21079 21017 20926 21239 21290 21352 21469 21103 Success
11:48:49PM JAPAN 38764 38556 38452 38286 38771 38941 39076 39360 38648
15/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8301 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,109,137,300 a change of -9.61%
14/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8201 points. Change of -0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,758,270,581 a change of 5.88%
13/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8224 points. Change of -0.3%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,383,033,146 a change of 23.46%
10/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of -0.84%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,170,108,064 a change of -6.19%
9/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8319 points. Change of 11.63%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,511,068,613 a change of -13.81%
8/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 7452 points. Change of -9.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,394,228,390 a change of 16.2%
7/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8245 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,502,690,636 a change of 7.78%

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:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 804.4 Percentage Change: + 0.65% Day High: 809.9 Day Low: 796.4

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1023 Percentage Change: + 2.20% Day High: 1026 Day Low: 1007

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1012.5 Percentage Change: + 2.25% Day High: 1017 Day Low: 987.4

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1056.5 Percentage Change: + 3.33% Day High: 1061 Day Low: 1027

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Shell Plc (LSE:SHEL) and the legend of price gains!

#Brent #Stox  We’ve an intense dislike of being positive about oil company share prices, simply due to the logical (but usually faulty) assumption oiler shares enjoy a direct correlation to the price of Crude Oil.  Sometimes this assumption is right for a while, sometimes not, and usually any perceived link diminishes faster than the smoke from one of these “vape” machines which are proving so popular. In the case of Shell, their share price has started to enact something which is quite interesting from our confused perspective.

The level at which the share price broke the RED uptrend was around 2633p. Since then, the price has mucked around to a degree and now actually has closed a session above the level of trend break. In accordance with our “Book of Rules”, this should prove significant, essentially suggesting this historical Red trend since 2020 should be ignored as it’s no longer viable. In terms of future share price calculations, this throws a fairly major spanner in the works as we dare not rely on price fluctuations against the Red trend to calculate future potentials. Our in-house logic is fairly basic, giving rise to a thought that if the market doesn’t respect the trend, why should we?

It’s easy to become pedantic about this sort of nonsense but, invariably, when a share price exceeds the level of trend break, it proves (to us) the prior trend was a load of BS! In other words, the Shell share price uptrend since the contrived pandemic low of 2020 was a load of fictional rubbish and should now be ignored. We’ve painted another line in a colour the software assures is Magenta, basically a Hail Mary hope the market shall adhere to such an imaginary instrument. In truth, “the market” should be accurately reflected as “traders who want to believe”, due to everyone searching for a new god to follow.

Our own god is less forgiving, demanding we ignore a prior Red uptrend when a share price exceeds it. To be blunt, the frequency of this happening has tended engrave “the rule” in Big Granite Letters in our in-house assumptions, often creating scenario which must be believed.

 

In the case of Shell,  it’s currently the case where above 2674p should trigger movement to an initial 2761p with our secondary, if bettered, at a longer term 2888p. Neither argument is particularly exciting, though we do anticipate some hesitation around 2888p, just because it clashes with prior highs. We’ve an assumption folk trapped at such a level since 2018 shall decide to bail, retrieving their investment rather than risking he imminent threat of taking some profit. Honestly, we cannot lecture as we’re perfectly capable of “Bailing At Break Even” (Babe) rather than risk waiting for another lifetime to pass to retrieve our holiday savings…

Overall with Shell, the share price is hovering in a zone where we must regard a long term 3751p as introducing a greater attraction than a fallen bin of receipts to a politician.  Or given recent headlines, a broken down school bus at the entrance to an impoverished politicians “house in the country”.

Should things intend go wrong for Shell (thank goodness we no longer have to type; Royal Dutch Shell…) their share price needs leak below 2400p to trigger reversals to an initial 2209p with our secondary, if broken, calculating at 2177 and a very probable bounce position.

 

But for now, we’re inclined toward optimism for this share.

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:30:35PM BRENT 7991.4 7964 7850 7749 8031 8092 8120 8172 7998
10:33:41PM GOLD 2673.5
10:44:11PM FTSE 8215.2 ‘cess
10:52:40PM STOX50 4985.5 4972 4964 4952 4993 5001 5007 5012 4965
10:57:48PM GERMANY 20278 ‘cess
12:48:11AM US500 5846.6 ‘cess
12:50:34AM DOW 42558.9
12:53:26AM NASDAQ 20777.4

 

14/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8201 points. Change of -0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,758,270,581 a change of 5.88%
13/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8224 points. Change of -0.3%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,383,033,146 a change of 23.46%
10/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of -0.84%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,170,108,064 a change of -6.19%
9/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8319 points. Change of 11.63%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,511,068,613 a change of -13.81%
8/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 7452 points. Change of -9.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,394,228,390 a change of 16.2%
7/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8245 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,502,690,636 a change of 7.78%
6/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,105,577,084 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.

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

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 799.2 Percentage Change: + 0.11% Day High: 802.5 Day Low: 794.6

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LSE:NG. National Glib Close Mid-Price: 910.8 Percentage Change: -0.55% Day High: 919.8 Day Low: 909.8

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LSE:SCLP Scancell Close Mid-Price: 9.2 Percentage Change: -4.17% Day High: 9.55 Day Low: 9.25

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 990.2 Percentage Change: + 0.36% Day High: 1005 Day Low: 986.2

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1022.5 Percentage Change: + 0.74% Day High: 1035.5 Day Low: 1015.5

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Tesco Plc (LSE:TSCO), discounts in the greed aisle

#GOLD #WallSt There’s something quite strange going on with supermarket pricing, making me essentially suspect they’re trying to figure out discrete ways to price gouge. An example is Gluten Free bread, a personal burden due to Coeliac disease. One of the brands whose products actually taste like bread has seen the price sneak upward, a loaf of 18 slices (each the size of a potato waffle), now attempting to get punters to pay £11.50 per kilo. This is a big nope, because their own bakery sells a product which is larger, yet is priced at £3.40 per kilo, a significant difference. The downside of their store baked product is it needs toasted before use, while the leading brand product can – at a push – be eaten directly from the packet.

And then there’s M&M’s!, a personal guilty secret. The “sharing” bags (dream on) have seen the price accelerate over 3 quid for a product which was £1.80 a few months ago. It was another easy “nope”, especially as our local petrol station still retails the same product at £1.80. Unfortunately, these examples just about exhaust my expertise on product pricing but gossiping with other folks on my daily dog walk, it seems supermarkets are trying targeted attempts to feed the inflation spiral, perhaps a panic attempt to maximise profits before President Trump starts an attempt to fulfil his promise to half prices in the USA! This initiative shall prove “interesting” as it’s certain to produce pressures on Europe to follow whatever example he sets.

 

Tesco look certain to continue to experience some share price reversals, movements this year tending suggest the market is looking for an excuse to gap things downward. Currently, below 358 looks capable of triggering reversals to an initial 353p with our secondary, if broken, at 349p. The problem with these reversal levels is the price moves into a region, where we can calculate an eventual 324p as a potential bottom with a bounce. This is why we suspect the market shall find an excuse to punch Texaco downward with a gap at the open as it’d be a shame if traders were allowed to ride such a relatively small decline.

Currently trading around 360p, the share price needs above 376 to give any hope as this should trigger further gains to an initial 390p with our secondary, if bettered, an impressive 403p and some hesitation.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
10:49:32PM BRENT 8064.1
10:58:57PM GOLD 2668.64 2656 2649 2642 2669 2692 2704 2744 2678
11:03:55PM FTSE 8222.5 ‘cess
11:28:05PM STOX50 4984
11:32:06PM GERMANY 20218
11:36:59PM US500 5849.4
11:54:01PM DOW 42359.9 41947 41726 41488 42150 42422 42520 42631 42286
11:59:41PM NASDAQ 20842 ‘cess
12:04:22AM JAPAN 38401 ‘cess

 

13/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8224 points. Change of -0.3%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,383,033,146 a change of 23.46%
10/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of -0.84%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,170,108,064 a change of -6.19%
9/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8319 points. Change of 11.63%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,511,068,613 a change of -13.81%
8/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 7452 points. Change of -9.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,394,228,390 a change of 16.2%
7/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8245 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,502,690,636 a change of 7.78%
6/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,105,577,084 a change of 0%
3/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8223 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,304,674,170 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:OCDO Ocado Plc Close Mid-Price: 270 Percentage Change: -3.09% Day High: 281.6 Day Low: 270.1

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Natwest Plc (LSE:NWG), perhaps a happier New Year?

#Brent #Dax When we reviewed Natwest a few weeks ago, we laid out some criteria for a price reduction to 373p, a target achieved just yesterday. During the course of the session, the price even managed to break our 373p target, hitting a low of 369p, doubtless causing more panic than a sharp knock on the front door after posting a funny political cartoon on Twitter! Now, there’s ample reason for some debate as to what’s next?

As the chart shows, by closing the session at 374.4p, Natwest managed to end the session below the immediate Red uptrend (currently 381p), placing the share price in a zone where further trouble should be anticipated in the future. To be realistic, we can allocate a trigger level at 367p as below such a point risks tipping the scales in favour of a visit t an initial 354p with our secondary, if broken, a bottom down at a painful 341p and hopefully a solid bounce. It’s interesting to note, when we paint a Blue downtrend since 2007 onto the chart, when the bank was known as Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), there’s an arguable bounce point at 345p, the level of the most recent trend break in October last year.

 

So, what should be expected in a scenario, where Natwest reverses to around 341p and actually bounces? We can calculate an initial longer term 434p with our secondary, should such an ambition be exceeded, working out at a distant looking  472p and some almost certain hesitation.

Overall, similar to the other retail banks, the financial sector actually is currently lodging in a zone, where some long term optimism is permitted. Hopefully the current UK Government, always keen to damage business, doesn’t discover a new and exciting way to derail this rare chance for “proper” share price movements.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
11:39:49PM BRENT 8080.9 7834 7738 7606 7980 8101 8331 8763 7630
11:43:03PM GOLD 2688.43
11:48:09PM FTSE 8249.4
11:50:08PM STOX50 4974.7
11:53:21PM GERMANY 20228.5 20100 19937 19753 20332 20420 20612 20930 20240
11:56:12PM US500 5819.7
11:37:11PM DOW 41948.4
11:40:07PM NASDAQ 20832.8
11:42:37PM JAPAN 38588

 

10/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of -0.84%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,170,108,064 a change of -6.19%
9/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8319 points. Change of 11.63%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,511,068,613 a change of -13.81%
8/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 7452 points. Change of -9.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,394,228,390 a change of 16.2%
7/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8245 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,502,690,636 a change of 7.78%
6/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of 0.32%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,105,577,084 a change of -3.75%
3/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8223 points. Change of 0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,304,674,170 a change of 278.32%
31/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8173 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 1,402,162,545 a change of -42.6%

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:LLOY Lloyds Grp. Close Mid-Price: 52.88 Percentage Change: -1.89% Day High: 54.1 Day Low: 52.44

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LSE:NG. National Glib Close Mid-Price: 918.4 Percentage Change: -1.75% Day High: 934.4 Day Low: 913.2

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1025 Percentage Change: + 1.08% Day High: 1031.5 Day Low: 1002

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FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX) looking surprisingly good. Odd!

#FTSE #Futures  After just 9 days of January, Argyll has started to produce this years quota of ridiculous. The incident was caused by me leaving my Samsung earbuds in the car, when the temperature dropped to a thrilling -5c on Thursday, then electing to listen to the stunning book by Yeonmi Park about her horrible journey, when she defected from North Vietnam. She certainly suffered but perhaps not as much as myself, when I placed the left ear bud in my ear and twisted the cold Samsung device into place. It ignored the usual long tap to wake it up, even ignored a spiteful double tap. Eventually the penny dropped about the reality of leaving an electronic device in sub-zero temperatures, nothing eats a battery faster than serious cold. When I twisted the ear piece out of my ear, the still cold rubber tip decided to remain in place, doubtless expanding to its normal size as my body temperature warmed it up.

Instinctively poking my index finger into the ear to dig the thing out, it refused to budge, perhaps instead opting to curl away from my searching finger like a guilty puppy hiding under a chair. Perhaps I had even pushed it further into the ear canal but plan B was making dinner, so I could wait.  When we finished dinner, my wife tried to grab the thing with tweezers, failing utterly but promised to try again before bed. At 10pm, she dug out a pair of tweezers with needle dips, deciding she could probably poke a hole in the rubber donut to get purchase. For amusement sake and to test my pain reflex, she also decided to pluck a couple of long hairs from the ear!

By 11pm, she gave up and admitted the rubber tip was now further into my ear than she’d thought possible. Perhaps I should go to the local hospital?

Of course, instead I started working on the (confusing) futures markets, working on the basis A&E might experience an “after pubs” rush at 11pm. It transpires, here in Argyll, that isn’t the case. Plus my left ear was in utter agony, making the idea of professionals poking around with it quite abhorrent.

Arriving at midnight to an empty car park, energy saving lights at the A&E entrance and the ground a solid white from frost, the nurse on duty at A&E asked me to complete the inevitable form, asking if I wanted a cup of tea while waiting. My immediate joke about an expected 10 hour delay fell flat but the cuppa made the agony of completing a “medical history” section easier to handle. Literally the moment I completed the Blue form, a doctor appeared and took the clipboard, asking me to follow him to an examination room. The nurse from reception followed, both trying to conceal their amusement at the potentials of an “older bloke with something stuck inside his body” joke. An inevitable amount of poking into my left ear ensued until they admitted defeat.

But of course, this is Argyll and there were two doctors on A&E duty. So a 2nd bored doctor appeared and asked if she could have a go as she’d a gadget she wanted to try. It was essentially a spotlight, a pair of crocodile clips, and a TV camera all built into the end of a straw. Literally 10 seconds later, the offending Samsung component was retrieved, leaving me free to return home. In this day and age, a good news story from A&E would be avoided by the media, a zero minute waiting time failing to make a decent headline.

 

There’s an obvious simile between the story above and the FTSE. Unfortunately, we’ve no idea what it is! But will admit to making the decision to ditch the expensive Samsung ear buds in favour of a good old fashioned single side headset, ensuring one ear is always able to listen to what’s going on around..

For the FTSE, above 8,324 points currently calculates with a pretty confident looking 8,348 points with our longer term secondary, should such a level be exceeded, working out at an extraordinary 8,395 points. If triggered, the calculated stop loss level is absurdly wide at 8,264 points. However, we’re not inclined to anticipate a quick visit to our third level of 8,462 points but arithmetically, it’s difficult to discount such an ambition in the coming weeks.

Our inevitable converse scenario allows for weakness below 8,279 to bring reversals down to an initial 8,245 with our secondary, if broken, a less likely 8,177 points.

Have a good weekend, hopefully warmer than in Argyll.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
2:35:26AM BRENT 7702.9 7676 7660 7715 7730 7842 7595
2:44:00AM GOLD 2672.82 2661 2653 2668 2676 2681 2665
2:48:17AM FTSE 8303.8 8243 8217 8280 8311 8330 8304 Success
2:50:51AM STOX50 5013.7 4956 4940 4990 5025 5046 4993
2:53:15AM GERMANY 20327.2 20238 20192 20331 20370 20421 20301
3:46:46AM US500 5896.9 5886 5857 5900 5913 5928 5886 ‘cess
3:56:40AM DOW 42533 42430 42397 42527 42655 42709 42555
4:02:10AM NASDAQ 21128 21006 20945 21136 21206 21314 21082
4:05:14AM JAPAN 39200 39241 39109 39333 39442 23787 39321 ‘cess
9/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8319 points. Change of 11.63%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,511,068,613 a change of -13.81%
8/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 7452 points. Change of -9.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,394,228,390 a change of 16.2%
7/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8245 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,502,690,636 a change of 7.78%
6/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of 0.32%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,105,577,084 a change of -3.75%
3/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8223 points. Change of 0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,304,674,170 a change of 278.32%
31/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8173 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 1,402,162,545 a change of -42.6%
30/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8121 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 2,442,888,350 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.

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

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 802.5 Percentage Change: + 1.43% Day High: 802.1 Day Low: 790.1

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 312.8 Percentage Change: + 1.96% Day High: 313.7 Day Low: 306.5

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc Close Mid-Price: 279 Percentage Change: -3.96% Day High: 287.5 Day Low: 271.4

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LSE:PHP Primary Health Close Mid-Price: 87.65 Percentage Change: -0.96% Day High: 87.65 Day Low: 85.4

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 34.4 Percentage Change: + 13.16% Day High: 35 Day Low: 30.1

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Close Mid-Price: 988.2 Percentage Change: -0.30% Day High: 996.2 Day Low: 987.6

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1014 Percentage Change: + 0.65% Day High: 1017 Day Low: 1000

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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey. Close Mid-Price: 111.55 Percentage Change: + 1.18% Day High: 111.7 Day Low: 106.8

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IMI Plc (LSE:IMI) with a warming up price?

#Gold #DAX This is a company with a fascinating pedigree, spun out of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) back in 1962 and finally achieving full independence from ICI in 1978. Nowadays, they’re the leading manufacturer of thermostatic radiator valves, along with other magic involving using metals to do something useful. From a personal perspective, these radiator valves remain objects of hatred, due to owning a 300 year old house which has had its heating system butchered over the years. Few things are more irritating than discovering, once the basic groundwork of draining a radiator is complete, the pipes in use are 10mm rather than the expected 8mm but on the other side of the radiator, everything is 13mm. And the hoarded box of shiny plumbing equipment lacks the necessary adaptors!

Meanwhile, due to the heating being off, the very person who’d nagged for the valves to be fitted is now complaining about the house being cold and could I stop mucking around and light the wood burning stove…

 

IMI are involved in rather more than radiator valves, their website showing quite an intimidating range of activities. Quite why they don’t simply supply a clip on thermometer for radiators with a wireless gizmo sending a signal back to the boiler telling it to stop or start sending heat to the specific radiator defeats me? They could even place some flashing LED lights on the thermometer to impress people.

The company share price is starting to look fairly useful in the coming months, showing some potential for growth. Currently, above just 1873p should trigger movement to an initial 1916p with our longer term secondary, if bettered, working out at an interesting 2011. This secondary is “interesting”, representing a new all time high where a distant ambition of 2265p becomes expected, a price level where some hesitation feels inevitable.

If things intend go wrong, the share needs below 1675p as this threatens reversals to an initial 1604 with our secondary, if broken, at 1513 and hopefully a bounce.

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
2:48:22AM BRENT 7568.1
2:52:14AM GOLD 2657.43 2632 2622 2608 2642 2667 2704 2744 2646
5:05:48AM FTSE 8252.6
5:10:08AM STOX50 4991.3
5:14:00AM GERMANY 20340.7 20213 20132 20044 20290 20392 20573 20880 20251
5:17:35AM US500 5904 ‘cess
5:21:56AM DOW 42554
5:24:39AM JAPAN 39506

 

8/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 7452 points. Change of -9.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,394,228,390 a change of 16.2%
7/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8245 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,502,690,636 a change of 7.78%
6/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8249 points. Change of 0.32%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,105,577,084 a change of -3.75%
3/01/2025 FTSE Closed at 8223 points. Change of 0.61%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,304,674,170 a change of 278.32%
31/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8173 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 1,402,162,545 a change of -42.6%
30/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8121 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 2,442,888,350 a change of 0%
29/12/2024 FTSE Closed at 8149 points. Change of 0%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 2,693,002,049 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:OCDO Ocado Plc Close Mid-Price: 290.5 Percentage Change: -2.39% Day High: 299.4 Day Low: 282.4

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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey Close Mid-Price: 110.25 Percentage Change: -3.80% Day High: 114.3 Day Low: 109.8

Target met. Continued weakness against TW. taking the price below 109.8 c ……..

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