Trends And Targets

AstraZeneca Plc (LSE:AZN)  trading around 12,672p at time of writing.

When we last reviewed AstraZeneca, the share price was at 13,692p and we proposed a secondary target of just 11,757p if our drop scenario came to fruition.  We even proposed the potential of a third level target down at 10,900 and something very strange occurred. The share price hit our target and overshot, the overshoot bouncing at almost exactly half way to our third level target. It almost felt like one of the grown ups had noticed what was going on and designated a bounce level for unknown reasons.

Obviously, this sort of thing hacks us off, forcing us to revisit our calculations and question every single decision. But there’s also the exquisite accuracy of a bounce level existing half way between two of our target levels. It tends to mess with our heads and strangely, we’ve recently witnessed another new phenomena.  Often, in the event of market gains being artificial (essentially pretend movements designed to generate a buzz in a share price), these gains will only make it around 75% of the way to target before retreating. But, if anything then allows the price to exceed this phony 75% target, the second upward lunge will succeed with a degree of confidence which is rather unusual in the stock market. Similar illogical events also occur on the US markets, especially the Nasdaq where true gains are fairly rare, once one discounts the disproportionate effects from Apple, AMD, Alphabet, Meta, Tesla, and Nvidia just one of whom can give the impression the Nasdaq is enjoying a stonking day. Ideally, the Nasdaq is now in the situation where it should designate a Premier League and move the heavies away, creating two separate index’ which shall be representative. At least in our opinion as it’s becoming a nuisance, seeing the Nasdaq reported with stunning movements but on the ground amongst real shares who’re not part of the current AI bubble, the market has been stable at best, really negative at worst. More than a few Nasdaq shares are experiencing All Time Lows!

To return to the UK and “sanity”,  we can quickly carry out a little experiment against AZN. Apparently, it is currently the case where now above 12,688p should trigger gains to an initial 13,330 with our secondary, if beaten, at a confident 13,588p. This initial target of 13,330 is our 75% target level, one where we suspect the share price may hesitate until such point the market climate proves sufficient to drive itself above, making a visit to our 13,588 pretty certain.

If we adopt this theory, we’d previously have provided 13,688p as our initial target with our secondary of 14,809p called a long term target which would probably require luck and patience. It will be interesting to watch if this game plan works out.

Our alternate scenario, one is unfortunately more visually likely, presents the potential for reversals for the share.

Below 11,598 threatens to trigger reversals to an initial 11,203p with our secondary, if broken, down at 8,862p. This would represent a return to price levels not seen since 2022, an interesting thing given the idea of a Covid jag seems to have escaped the NHS here in Scotland, the only vaccination mentioned (so far) being the obligatory winter flu one. Usually, they aim to inject both arms, one with the unpleasant Flu jab, the other with the Covid jab but this year, only Flu is mentioned. Perhaps this change in strategy shall impact the major vaccine supplier, such as AstraZeneca?

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:04:15PM	BRENT	9483.8									‘cess
11:08:25PM	GOLD	4361.47									‘cess
11:13:38PM	FTSE	10745.4	10701	10686	10656	10740	10775	10791	10821	10735
11:41:00PM	STOX50	6348.5	6284	6262	6229	6335	6364	6383	6406	6314
10:54:46PM	GERMANY	25683.5									‘cess
11:31:24PM	US500	7765.6
11:37:09PM	DOW	51868.8									Success
11:41:19PM	NASDAQ	30751.8
11:45:31PM	JAPAN	67030

 

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: 32.62 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 34.08 Day Low: 32.3

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LSE:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 433 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 440 Day Low: 426

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 935 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 951 Day Low: 925.5

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LSE:BME B & M. Close Mid-Price: 251.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 252.6 Day Low: 245.6

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LSE:BT.A British Telecom. Close Mid-Price: 191.45 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 199.85 Day Low: 191.45

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 340 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 348.8 Day Low: 340

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2936 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2998 Day Low: 2890

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1572.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1576 Day Low: 1548

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Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:AVCT Avacta** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:DGE Diageo** **LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FOXT Foxtons** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GENL Genel** **LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:IGG IG Group** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:MRO Melrose** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech** **LSE:PHP Primary Health** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc** **LSE:SBRY Sainsbury** **LSE:SCLP Scancell** **LSE:SDY Speedyhire** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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We’ve a favourite local tractor, the surface rust making our own little red tractor look immaculate. But the scruffy David Brown tractor, a genuine DB996, will always be the inspiration of the Aston Martin “DB” moniker, whereas our little red machine has no claim to fame, other than surviving for a few years with absolutely no brakes. And like a real Aston Martin, this tractor has a tow rope as a permanent fixture decorating the front of the machine. To give credit where it’s due, the machine successfully completed cutting the long grass in a sheep pasture, cheerfully creating a load of hay bails.

This is life in Argyll, where we get excited at the most ridiculous things on a dog walk. It’s unlikely Jeremy Clarkson would tolerate this machine on his Diddly Squat farm, despite the ‘heritage’ of a David Brown tractor.

And as for Aston Martin themselves, that’s another story.

 

When we reviewed Aston Martin back in February, before their Formula1 season kicked into turpitude, their race cars failing to adhere to the idea of competition! Instead, the team languishes second from the bottom of the Constructors charts, kept off bottom place by Formula1 newcomer Cadillac who’re experiencing exactly the season everyone expected. But Aston Martin, despite a former World Champion driving for them, avoid points. Aston Martin have come dreadfully close to our 30p bottom – as proposed in February – and we wonder if a bounce can be anticipated. Perhaps there’s a chance the repeated visits to 32p recently have created a bottom..

If this is indeed the case, above 35p should trigger movement to an initial 37.7p with our longer term secondary, if beaten, at 42p. This would be quite a big deal, nudging their share price into a cycle where a future 54p calculates as possible.

However, we’d be remiss if we didn’t sprinkle some common sense. It is now the case, where below 32p risks provoking reversal to an initial 28p with our secondary, if broken, at 21p. This secondary represents a price level where some forced recovery (by normal rules) is almost mandatory. Perhaps the Formula1 team shall experience a race where  both cars manage to complete a race on the same day…

 

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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
11:37:26PM	BRENT	9617.8									‘cess
11:46:34PM	GOLD	4364.6	4322	4309	4279	4357	4383	4403	4430	4356
11:53:48PM	FTSE	10754
11:56:05PM	STOX50	6338.2
12:05:44AM	GERMANY	25636
11:08:12PM	US500	7766.4	7506	Nothing	makes	sense	7778	7824	7930	7695
11:10:56PM	DOW	51999.8
11:13:57PM	NASDAQ	30572
11:16:29PM	JAPAN	66969	65051	Nothing	makes	sense	67154	67880	68275	66907	‘cess

 

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:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 424.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 436 Day Low: 419.5

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LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC. Close Mid-Price: 0.95 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0.95 Day Low: 0.95

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 343 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 343 Day Low: 337.6

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 432.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 432.2 Day Low: 422.5

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2900 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2900 Day Low: 2794

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Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:AVCT Avacta** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BME B & M** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:DGE Diageo** **LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FOXT Foxtons** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GENL Genel** **LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IGG IG Group** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:MRO Melrose** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech** **LSE:PHP Primary Health** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc** **LSE:SBRY Sainsbury** **LSE:SCLP Scancell** **LSE:SDY Speedyhire** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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It finally happened, we ended up lighting a log fire on Friday evening, the first of winter. From the scent of burning wood permeating the air, we were not the only folk making the decision to light a fire, rather than face extortion over the price of heating oil. This is a fairly big issue here in the Scottish Highlands (Glasgow Airport is around 25 miles away…), the concept of supplying gas to villages somehow escapes installers. As a result, houses are Oil, Electric, or Big Gas Tank in the garden, but most folk also take a cautionary approach by ensuring they’ve wood burning stoves. But needless to say, the coming week allegedly promises 20c temperatures, aka roof down weather in the car.

Natwest Group should also be experiencing a “roof down” moment as they’ve a visual possibility of their share price heading to new levels!

We’re a bit cautious about this, even though the share has already achieved a “higher high” since breaking through the 19 year old Blue downtrend since 2007. Rather a lot has happened which suggests we should treat this Blue downtrend very seriously but, if we’re honest, until Natwest share price closes above the immediate initial target level of 730p, we’d advocate caution, advising not to rush out and buy a small bottle of Babysham. (Do they still sell that stuff?)

The immediate situation for Natwest suggests strength above 714 should trigger traffic to an initial 730p next. Our longer term secondary, should such a level be exceeded, calculates at 754p and almost certain hesitation, despite the future attraction from a long term 1,155p dangling in the distance. This, almost shocking, target level is a Big Picture thing which became “real” once the share price broke through the Blue downtrend since 2007 with a series of movements which confirm – according to our in-house rules – the Big Picture downtrend is real and represents something we should anticipate the share price to react against, as time goes on.

Should Natwest intend clown around, the share needs below 665 currently to potentially trigger reversal to an initial 633 with our secondary, if broken, at 603p and a very possible “bottom”.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
8:33:56PM	BRENT	9997.4	9842	9692	9330	10199	10222	10342	10504	10005
8:46:31PM	GOLD	4377.38
8:55:36PM	FTSE	10651
9:18:26PM	STOX50	6229.6
10:39:28PM	GERMANY	25300.5	25268	25180	24972	25376	25689	26059	26155	25565
10:43:00PM	US500	7659.3
10:44:58PM	DOW	51733.8
10:58:47PM	NASDAQ	29722
11:02:43PM	JAPAN	65278

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:AVCT Avacta. Close Mid-Price: 78 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 80 Day Low: 75.5

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 337.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 337.8 Day Low: 334

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LSE:SDY Speedyhire. Close Mid-Price: 14.88 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 15.9 Day Low: 14.88

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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey. Close Mid-Price: 79.28 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 80.86 Day Low: 78.86

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A surprising number of folk agreed with our whimsical humour of moving UK politicians to Rwanda, giving them the luxury of a private gated community and no internet access as a thanks for their excellent service to the UK, and their bank accounts. But somehow, the Bank of England managed a surprise movement on Thursday by choosing to leave Interest Rates alone, despite the US managing a clearly political increase the previous day. It was all very strange, leaving a suspicious hint some of the folks in the BoE Monetary Committee may be practicing the lost art of “thinking” for themselves.

The FTSE 100 appeared to appreciate the approach from the BoE, managing to gain a substantial 111 points as the day commenced, closing the session exactly 100 points above the point at which the Bank of England embraced common sense with their rates announcement. It was all quite unsettling, leaving us the only thing to complain about being the weather here in Argyll.

We allowed ourselves a laugh at the announcement England needed 9 months of rain to fully alleviate the effects of the drought. Essentially, this was a longer range weather forecast for our part of the world, autumn looking like it was over and done with during the last week, leaves which had quickly turned brown suddenly blowing off trees, creating a soggy mass like seaweed abandoned by the tide. Oh, we can also complain about the lack of a Formula1 race this weekend.

But more importantly, we’d reached that time of September, when those who took an extended August holiday are now starting back at work. To be blunt, the grown ups should now be back from holiday and the stock markets should start exhibiting a real interest in life. Currently for the FTSE, movement exceeding 10,824 points should attain an initial 10,873 points with our secondary, if bettered, at 10,897 points. If triggered, the tightest stop loss level looks tight at 10,810 points though 10,774 would make a lot more sense.

Should things intend go wrong, below 10,780 risks triggering reversals to an initial 10,746 with our secondary, if broken, a less likely 10,697 points.

Have a good weekend.

Hopefully we’re about to see the FTSE inveigle itself into closing a day above 10,910 as this should indicate the market breaking upward from its recent period of tedium.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
9:42:26PM	BRENT	10123.6	9949	9879		10045	10197	10333		10084	‘cess
9:52:16PM	GOLD	4342.6	4234	4201		4317	4383	4420		4340
10:10:48PM	FTSE	10802	10700	10653		10752	10834	10882		10794	Success
10:13:49PM	STOX50	6307	6284	6261		6306	6326	6340		6303	‘cess
10:17:54PM	GERMANY	25635.9	25591	25550		25676	25798	25819		25649	‘cess
10:22:33PM	US500	7632.2	7564	7553		7637	7652	7692		7617	‘cess
10:28:20PM	DOW	51760.5	51447	51131		51864	52136	52365		51844
10:31:26PM	NASDAQ	29412.1	29058	28925		29107	29489	29521		29394	‘cess
11:13:51PM	JAPAN	65005	63680	63177		64065	65200	65354		64940

 

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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Increasingly, we cannot help but wonder if a “Class Action” legal case could be taken against the folk who write headlines on the internet. The MSN homepage, on Microsoft Edge, is especially guilty of wasting time and a glance tonight revealed a couple of crackers; “Microscopic alien technology hidden in moon dust”  was a classic to avoid, as was “Surprise Monaco GP format change confirmed in new F1 announcement“. A 10 second speed read revealed NO Alien Tech is hidden in moon dust and also, the Monaco Formula1 race shall remain its usual boring processional self. Except they have padded the weekend out with an additional boring race with no overtakes. Of course, there are always the deceptive adverts which the Advertising Standards Authority used to regulate – unless they were on the Internet; “Homeowners PAID to upgrade their windows? Find out how.” was one such advert this evening, the discrete question mark giving them a “get out of jail” excuse for an advert where absolutely no home owner, anywhere, shall be paid to upgrade windows.

Of course, the Clickbait concept is nothing new. It was always the case with the printed media, where it was acknowledged any front page headline attracting a visit to inner pages was a lie, a practice which easily contributed to the death of the genre, the idea of a daily newspaper being important consigned to the minds of folk who work in the industry. Aside – mostly – from the Financial Times, the idea of picking up a free newspaper before boarding a BA flight to London has become an ancient memory.

Our own attitude toward Clickbait headlines tends be quite reserved. We do our stuff, report the numbers, make a polite cough when some targets are met, and move onto the next thing. It makes for an easier life, rather than joining those who lie for a living in a desperate attempt for Internet views. Our “thing has always been a preference for just being right.

But in a move which has attracted the attention of trading giants in the league of Buffet, the Mutual Funds, the Hedge Funds, a bloke who lives on Guernsey and another in Barcelona, our recent review of Kier Group has proven extremely successful. The share price, as predicted, hit our trigger and surged upwards, confidently achieving and beating our initial target!

This opens the door for a reasonable future. The situation NOW for Kier to move above 287p as this should apparently trigger a cycle of gains which should hesitate around 320p. If beaten, our longer term secondary now calculates at 360p. While the share price exhibits some amazing long, long, term potentials if this scenario starts to unfold, for now we suspect it shall prove safest to advocate for our moderate target levels,. rather than mention a distant attraction from 1051p,

And if things intend go wrong, below 214p would hammer a pretty unpleasant nail into their share price future. But we suspect they’d have to announce a new gated community in Rwanda for hard working UK politicians…

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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
10:29:54PM	BRENT	10250.6									Success
10:33:56PM	GOLD	4262.11	4252	4231	4186	4276	4367	4418	4479	4337	Success
10:37:02PM	FTSE	10684.1									Success
10:50:21PM	STOX50	6265.5									‘cess
10:52:50PM	GERMANY	25527									‘cess
10:56:44PM	US500	7563									Success
11:00:02PM	DOW	51515									‘cess
11:02:33PM	NASDAQ	29019.3	28751	28643	28429	28969	29188	29368	29572	29092
11:05:37PM	JAPAN	64580									Success

 

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

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

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

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

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Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:ASC Asos** **LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:AVCT Avacta** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC** **LSE:BME B & M** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:DGE Diageo** **LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FOXT Foxtons** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GENL Genel** **LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:IGG IG Group** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:MRO Melrose** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:PHP Primary Health** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc** **LSE:SBRY Sainsbury** **LSE:SCLP Scancell** **LSE:SDY Speedyhire** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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News of a town in middle England (Nottingham) opting to ban Baklava seems unfair. We once had a local deli where we’d routinely buy a whole tray of the wonderful Greek honey & nuts luxury, promising to make it last a week but aware it’d be a competition between my wife, daughter, and myself as we each were serious about getting our ‘share’. A personal diagnosis of Coeliac disease unfortunately made the tray of heaven a distant memory for my digestive system, Baklava suddenly missing from our household. Neither wife nor daughter liked to visit the deli, due to always finding themselves spending a small fortune on products which made joining Weight Watchers a necessary evil.

Unfortunately, the next time our local radio news broadcast covered the story, the word ‘Balaclava’ had replaced ‘Baklava’, destroying the mental image of Nottingham police greedily searching people at demonstrations in case they were carrying a Greek speciality! Knowing our local radio station, the initial miss-labelling was probably not a mistake, their sense of humour being notorious in their never ending search for plausible deniability!

Bizarrely, this story brings us neatly to M&S, my wife recently visiting to buy some gluten free products and also choosing an Assorted Baklava Selection for old times sake. Usually, she praises M&S products but in this instance, declared their Baklava to be a poor comparison with the trays of the stuff we used to buy. It was one of these “once you’ve eaten the real thing” moments but the dog really enjoyed her occasional mega treat over the next few days.

We’d an email about M&S as apparently an analyst somewhere has been sounding quite excited about their share price prospects. We’re not so sure confidence should be allowed for the immediate future as weakness next below 368p looks very capable of provoking reversal to an initial 360p. Our secondary, if such a level breaks, calculates down at a very probable 341p and hopefully a real bounce. If wanting to play with short positions, the tightest stop loss looks like 386p.

However, there is obviously a chance the analyst promoting Marks & Spencer may have spotted something useful. Should this be the case, above 386p should exhibit some surprise potentials, allowing for a visit to an initial 422p with our longer term secondary, if exceeded, working out at 434p. This sort of thing would be extremely significant, suggesting the share price is breaking from from the hiatus which has infected the share price since the start of 2025.

Perhaps M&S shall prove worth watching, though we suspect due to imminent reversal potentials.

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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
10:31:20PM	BRENT	10578									Success
10:35:48PM	GOLD	4296.1
10:39:39PM	FTSE	10685.3	10643	10634	10616	10675	10689	10693.5	10700	10652	‘cess
10:43:11PM	STOX50	6249.8	6192	6178	6149	6242	6264	6290	6323	6234	‘cess
10:45:28PM	GERMANY	25455.7									‘cess
10:47:26PM	US500	7595.8									‘cess
10:49:50PM	DOW	52140.5									Success
10:52:40PM	NASDAQ	28979.8									Shambles
10:54:54PM	JAPAN	63710

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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In full disclosure, we don’t really get Games Workshop. Its relentless focus on Warhammer and associated products has always left us rather cold. In fairness, people who develop a fascination with Dungeons & Dragons can sometimes seem as though they have arrived from another planet — in fact, they might — because the human capacity for becoming completely immersed in an imaginary environment is something this writer has never quite understood. Why spend hours in a world that doesn’t exist when there is perfectly good reality to deal with?

Over the years, we’ve come to accept that this is probably our failing rather than theirs. Perhaps some people simply have a greater appetite for immersion than we do. There is, after all, a certain similarity with the world of model railways: enthusiasts can spend extraordinary amounts of time constructing wonderfully detailed environments, faithfully reproducing landscapes and surroundings that are entirely comprehensible to the rest of us. Warhammer simply takes that concept somewhere considerably further, providing its devotees with a fully developed universe in which the basic framework already exists. All that remains is to paint it, populate it and, presumably, lose several hours of one’s life in the process.

Which brings us, rather unexpectedly, to audiobooks.

Audiobooks are an easy way of consuming literature — or science fiction — while allowing the mind to wander elsewhere. For this writer, listening through a single ear while getting on with something else works remarkably well. What doesn’t work, however, are the increasingly common “read by a full cast” productions offered by Audible.

The reason is simple. A conventional audiobook still leaves the listener’s imagination to do much of the work. The characters have voices, certainly, but the world itself remains largely yours to construct. A full-cast production changes that. Suddenly the voices, performances and sound effects begin supplying the interpretation for you. It can be entertaining, but it also removes something fundamental from the experience of reading: the freedom to imagine the world for yourself.

And perhaps that is where our earlier prejudice against Games Workshop begins to look rather less convincing.

The share price

We can, at least, award ourselves a modest pat on the back for our previous Games Workshop review. We proposed a target level just above £22, and the share price duly obliged.

Unfortunately, it failed to close above our 22,128p target, and has paid a fairly brutal price in the months since. The technical picture has consequently changed, and there is now a possibility that further trouble lies ahead.

From an immediate perspective, a move below 17,060p would suggest a reversal towards an initial 16,800p. Should that level subsequently fail, our longer-term secondary calculation points towards an eventual bottom around 14,972p, potentially followed by a rebound.

We remain somewhat reluctant to place too much confidence in downside reversals during the current cycle, however. There is a nagging suspicion that the market may yet have a surprise gain in store.

For that more optimistic scenario to gain credibility, the share price needs to break above 18,600p. Doing so would suggest that another advance is getting under way, with an initial target around 22,239p. If that level is overcome, our secondary target rises to 23,994p.

Reaching those levels would be significant. More intriguingly, they could open the door to what we suspect may be a much longer-term influence, centred around 26,816p.

So, despite our complete inability to understand why anyone would want to spend their spare time painting miniature warriors, perhaps there really is something to Warhammer after all.

Or perhaps — more importantly for investors — there’s something to Games Workshop that we still haven’t quite understood.

 

 

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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
11:05:04PM	BRENT	10696
11:09:34PM	GOLD	4295.72	4253	4208	4108	4316	4402	4407	4456	4341
11:11:52PM	FTSE	10698.5									Success
11:16:41PM	STOX50	6276.4									Success
11:30:55PM	GERMANY	25516									‘cess
11:35:43PM	US500	7626.5	7590	7573	7548	7615	7643	7650	7670	7626	‘cess
11:39:09PM	DOW	52389.5
12:00:34AM	NASDAQ	29115.4

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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