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PureTech represent a fairly apt focus for discussion, following a flurry of visits to our local GP’s in-house vampire, a lovely lady called Fiona who regards it as her life work to extract blood from the innocent. To be honest, Fiona is a superb practice nurse (who sometimes reads my daily articles!) and can wield a needle with greater delicacy than the nurses across at the Haematology Unit. From the glint in their eyes, patients are left with the feeling they’d rather be holding a chainsaw. But Fiona is capable of filling 5 test tubes of blood, while the patient still has eyes tightly shut, expecting an imminent stab.

The problem, as happens for folk of a certain age and weight, is Type 2 Diabetes. First diagnosed a few years ago, my bloodwork had retreated to sane levels and I’d been able to stop the dreadful Diabetes medication. If offered Metformin by a GP, run, screaming. It can have terrible effects on patients toilet regimes and is probably sponsored by an underwear manufacturer. Of course, some folk have no side effects! But with the end of 30 months of chemotherapy, Fiona The Nurse was itching to stab me, demanding another look at my Type2 Diabetes bloodwork as, in her biased opinion, I’d put on weight. Quite how she spotted a 7 kilo gain defeats but apparently my body had returned to its “a wee fat bloke” default setting, boasting 101 kilos on her scales.

After talking things over with my wife, Nurse Fiona was informed  the risks of Type 2 Diabetes were preferable to taking Metformin, probably the first time a prescribed drug was being refused. She arranged a meeting with the practice Pharmacist, someone I didn’t know existed. The guy listened to my Metformin anecdotes, discretely going into the loo with a full change of clothes and a black bin-bag, running into the bushes at a nature reserve, desperate to avoid eye contact with a bunch of children on mountain bikes navigating the usually deserted track, and of course, that time the “dog car” was changed for something with leather seats. This particular drug became a “quality of life” issue, along with the source of my funny stories about a fictional dog walking friend.

The Pharmacist was sympathetic, saying he’d heard about this sort of thing and pointing out I should have complained to the doctor. Maybe it’s a man thing but admitting you couldn’t risk going out in public wasn’t a welcome conversation, no matter what else was happening. After all, one has a certain self image to maintain. along with a mental voice from “Steve Wrights Old Woman” saying “mustn’t cause a fuss”…

And thus, a new drug called Ozempic was prescribed. It’s apparently also a popular weight loss drug, self administered weekly. It ticked all the boxes until Monday 7th September, when the prescription had been collected and there was the discovery I was expected to inject the stuff myself, into myself. While the needle is tiny, the process generated a bit of a scream, my wife inspecting the syringe thing and announced I’d missed, absolutely nothing had entered my body. She got that “I wish this was a chainsaw” glint in her eyes, before stabbing me. In what was a painless process. She has agreed to stab me weekly, though promises not to enjoy it.

And this brings us to PureTech Health, a company claiming to have an orally administered weight loss solution which will – from a personal perspective – successfully compete with Ozempic, though it appears the magic from PureTech isn’t intended for diabetes, just for fat people! In our book, any initiative which does not involve injections deserves extremely positive attention.

PureTech boast a share price which has been waffling around since breaking the Closing Price Downtrend Since 2021, the share price carefully respecting this historical downtrend and giving building hope for the future. Perhaps their Half Year price announcement on 22nd September is supposed to do to the share price something similar to my imaginary Ozempic needle, causing a sharp surge upward?

If we’re right – and we expect to be – above just 129 should bring a sharp surge to an initial 133p with our secondary, if bettered, at a comfortable 140.5p. This secondary target level is liable to prove important, launching the share price into a zone where a long term third level ambition of 162p makes some sense. Visually, this is our expectation.

Should things decide to go wrong, below 113 should apparently trigger reversals to an initial 109p with our secondary, if broken, at 102p. And perhaps a solid bounce. Hopefully our Type 2 Diabetes regime doesn’t discover such an issue as a break below 93 kilos will be quite welcome. Hopefully this does something to the diabetes blood results but stopping being a “wee far bloke” will be a real reward.

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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
11:04:19PM	BRENT	9634.8									‘cess
11:07:29PM	GOLD	4410.97	4366	4320	4258	4426	4494	4525	4577	4430
11:11:00PM	FTSE	10813.3									‘cess
11:13:40PM	STOX50	6394.2
10:51:32PM	GERMANY	25988
10:54:00PM	US500	7705.4
10:56:27PM	DOW	53103.9	53004	52786	52462	53177	53238	53321	53428	53045
10:58:49PM	NASDAQ	29550.5									Success
11:01:52PM	JAPAN	65805

 

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:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 435 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 435 Day Low: 418.5

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 628 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 644 Day Low: 628

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LSE:SDY Speedyhire. Close Mid-Price: 16.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 17.3 Day Low: 16.5

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2269 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2269 Day Low: 2244

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 1 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1.1 Day Low: 1

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Italy and Formula1 produced a welcome surprise, a race which was actually entertaining. The bloke doing the Sky Sport commentary sounded, by Lap 14, that he’d self destruct by Lap 15 such was the level of excitement. Hopefully he was wearing some sort of nappy, delivering enthusiasm at levels not heard since Murray Walker. Of course, the big difference between the pair was Murray Walker had the ability to make an awful Monaco race sound interesting, whereas the Sky commentators tone always reflect the race, perfectly capable of giving a Monotone Monte Carlo report while they count the minutes until the procession is all over.

Next week, it’s Spain and another F1 race capable of producing mixed entertainment. Historically, Ferrari will provide a surprise while the team attempt to atone for their usual dismal performance in front of their home crowd. And better still, we expect friends to visit so we can indulge in Paella in honour of Spanish cuisine.

We remain about as excited as that Formula1 commentator over the possibilities for Lloyds share price!

When we previously reviewed the share, we optimistically proclaimed the share price needed to CLOSE below 108p to spoil our optimism for the future. Something extremely curious is taking place with their share price as we’ve now got a clutter of calculations, all pointing to the same price level as a target. The first set of arguments dates back to 2018, our second set dates from the start of this year, and the third series of calculations growing from price movements since our previous analysis just three weeks ago. Generally speaking, when this sort of thing occurs, it becomes pretty certain a share price is intended to reach the target level and for Lloyds Banking Group, we’re now looking at a future target of 123p. From a near term perspective, above 113p should now trigger a lift to the 123p level.

Importantly, we also need now mention closure above 123p should next trigger an interesting race to 151p.

Our converse scenario is a bit worrying, giving the potential for a forced slow down in the shares optimistic future. Below 108p now risks a visit to an initial 103p with our secondary, if broken, at a “bottom” of a less likely 100p.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
11:20:50PM	BRENT	9583.3	9230	9126	8935	9438	9522	9668	9814	9447
11:23:37PM	GOLD	4428.41
11:30:07PM	FTSE	10828.9
11:33:08PM	STOX50	6395.2
11:38:49PM	GERMANY	26059
10:59:00PM	US500	7715.1	7705	7685	7661	7724	7744	7753	7769	7704
11:01:40PM	DOW	53721.4
11:03:59PM	NASDAQ	29528.9
11:06:46PM	JAPAN	66000

 

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:GKP Gulf Keystone. Close Mid-Price: 189.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 192.6 Day Low: 186.4

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 5860 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 5860 Day Low: 5845

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 635 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 653 Day Low: 630

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 125.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 127.1 Day Low: 123.25

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Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AML Aston Martin** **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: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:EMG MAN** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FOXT Foxtons** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GENL Genel** **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: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:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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Every Friday, through July and August, we’ve been whining about the need for the UK market to actually CLOSE a session above 10,910 points. Rather impressively, the FTSE100 has employed exquisite skill in remaining below our trigger level, certainly managing to sneak above during intraday trade but with remarkable discipline, ensuring each session failed to CLOSE above our trigger level. This has created a situation, where there’s the implicit suggestion closure above 10,910 shall signal a period of positive trade for the FTSE. Visually, what has been created is something we call a Horizontal Trend and generally closure above such a trend line should herald imminent fireworks.

 

Therefore, from a near term perspective, we’re at the stage of trying to produce target values which should afford the UK market the opportunity to CLOSE above 10,910 points. This being the case, above 10,867 points currently calculates with the potential of a lift to 10,922 points. Despite such a lift intraday, this target level provides nothing new and doesn’t come with an expectation of closure above our trigger level. However, should 10,922 points be exceeded, our “longer term” (or later the same day) secondary calculates at 10,999 points. This should make closure above 10,910 points almost a slam dunk expectation.

Hopefully the current UK Prime Minister hasn’t got any great ideas to surprise the media with. Though we’ve a private suspicion at some point, the idea shall arise of Selling Gibraltar to Spain, the Falklands to Argentina, Northern Ireland to Ireland, and Scotland to Scotland…

Our converse scenario, if things decide to go wrong, suggests weakness below 10,689 risks bringing a visit down to an initial 10,609 points with our secondary, if broken, at 10,509 points and a potential level for a reasonable bounce.  Reversals like this shall illustrate a nasty problem, introducing a third level target – if everything else fails – down at 10,289 points and the potential introduction of a price level which should become a pivot until the end of this year.

 

Anyway, it’s a Grand Prix weekend, the race from Italy giving sufficient excuse for Carbonara for dinner on Sunday while we analyse just what went wrong with Ferrari this time around! Have a good weekend.

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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
10:39:22PM	BRENT	9500.1	9342	9208		9515	9635	9741		9533	‘cess
11:16:55PM	GOLD	4473.47	4382	4375		4402	4510	4520		4467	Success
11:28:55PM	FTSE	10833.8	10737	10685		10777	10867	10888		10828	Success
11:31:53PM	STOX50	6380.9	6338	6320		6366	6386	6393		6358	Success
11:35:32PM	GERMANY	26024.1	25788	25694		25897	26047	26187		25999	‘cess
11:40:09PM	NASDAQ	29460.6	29434	29285		29490	29527	29564		29480
11:45:48PM	DOW	53678	53046	52743		53152	53727	53761		53626
11:49:27PM	US500	7746.1	7691	7684		7716	7758	7772		7738
11:53:14PM	JAPAN	64624	63690	63620		64271	64885	65350		64563

 

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

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

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

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

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

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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 148.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 150.4 Day Low: 146.8

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 605.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 614 Day Low: 596.7

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1146 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1154 Day Low: 1130.5

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 122.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 124 Day Low: 119.95

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Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AML Aston Martin** **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:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **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: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: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:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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When we review a company which is new to us, habitually we opt to glance at their website in the hope of gleaning some useful information. To be fair, sometimes we discover a web presence where the company simply chose to toss the job at a web design organisation and left them to it. Generally, this results in an offering to the internet which is buzzword heavy, yet lacking in any real information. On other occasions, it can rapidly become clear the company took a close interest in production of their website, an impeccably written internet presence which is full of technical jargon, yet usually leaving the reader without a clue as to what the company actually does.

And then, there is “Rosebank Technologies”. We managed to confuse them with Rosebank Industries, their website giving literally no information about the company. An extract from their “About” section is shown below, ensuring any effort to try and produce a useful blurb came to a crashing halt. Thankfully common sense reared its ugly head and the penny dropped, we were looking at the wrong Rosebank!

Rosebank Industries have a very nice website, one with a working “About Us” link which reveals they are focussed on acquiring high quality engineering businesses with strong market positions. They aim to Buy the business, Improve the business, then Sell the business. It all sounds quite straightforward, though doubtless a nightmare for any target companies who will invariably suffer staff reductions as the company aims to focus on profitability. While creating an immediate picture of profit improvement, by the time the acid test for success comes around a few years later, the chaos caused by a change of focus toward immediate profit can introduce pain to the bottom line. But by this point, there’s a chance the company will again be on the market, a short term profitability improvement concealing reality. Who knows, maybe Rosebank Industries shall be different.

Currently, their share price is exhibiting some hope for the future. Above just 364 calculates as potentially triggering movement to an initial 381p with our longer term secondary, if exceeded, working out at an impressive 410p. An achievement such as this would be pretty important from a Big Picture stance, representing a new “high” since the catastrophic price adjustment from 2025.

Conversely, our reversal scenario suggests weakness below 338p risks triggering downward travel to an initial 314 with our secondary, if broken, a less likely bottom at 280p.

Our inclination is toward optimism.

 

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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
3:03:56AM	BRENT	9479.1									Shambles
3:29:01AM	GOLD	4424.26
3:35:09AM	FTSE	10758.9
3:43:45AM	STOX50	6361.9
4:05:19AM	GERMANY	25860
4:11:07AM	US500	7672.3	7657	7654	7645	7669	7676	7686	7710	7664	Shambles
11:47:51AM	DOW	53097	53020	52949	52832	52901	53149	53182	53254	53095
11:49:51AM	NASDAQ	29080.3

 

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

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

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

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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 149.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 153.75 Day Low: 148.85

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1147.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1179 Day Low: 1141.5

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LSE:SDY Speedyhire. Close Mid-Price: 17.12 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 18.2 Day Low: 17

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 1.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1.2 Day Low: 1.09

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Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AML Aston Martin** **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:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **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:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:MRO Melrose** **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:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **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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At the end of August, our bit of Argyll hosts something called “The Cowal Gathering”, traditionally the final Highland Games of the season. This year, the weather proved excellent, the temperature maxing out at 22.5c and rain staying away, quite literally until the final firework of the ending display was fired. By the time we drove the 8 miles home, it was raining and the temperature had dropped quite dramatically. This is pretty typical, Argyll somehow ensuring September is ushered in with pretty vile weather. Thankfully, we caught a ferry and spent a dry holiday Monday with friends on the mainland where it remained dry and fairly warm, allowing a well lubricated BBQ and a perfect day off until the festive season sneaks up on us.

The next week should see the markets taking a greater interest in life as folk return from their August break. There has been what we feel will be a significant movement with oil supplies, the US Government now able to express a keen interest in keeping oil prices high. The “problem” for the rest of the world is the US Government has taken direct control of 1/5th of Venezuela’s oil production. As a result, high oil prices will produce direct income for the USA Government, this making us wonder if the fresh strikes against Iran are designed to increase tensions, along with increased prices of Crude Oil. Even the oil major companies have raised eyebrows over this initiative as they’d never expected to find themselves in direct competition with the US Government.

Once again, we are living in strange times.

As for Natwest, from an immediate perspective, we calculate their share price currently needs exceed 720p to suggest the retail bank is about to exhibit its own fireworks display. Above such a trigger level should produce movements to an initial 750p with our longer term secondary, if exceeded, at 893p.

If things intend go wrong for Natwest, below 636p looks like it shall prove dangerous, perhaps capable of driving the price down to an initial 598p and visually, a strong suggestion for a bounce. Share price closure below 598p would be regarded as a bad thing, working out with a secondary objective at 544p and a lack of confidence for a rebound. This would be due to the Big Picture giving a visually unlikely 443p as possible, this aided by a firm hint the retail bank has returned to doing retail bank things, ruining the hopes of investors.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
11:21:35PM	BRENT	9485.1	9115	9063	9047	9240	9521	9576	10186	9250
11:25:08PM	GOLD	4325.13
11:28:03PM	FTSE	10748.5
11:41:01PM	STOX50	6341.4
11:45:46PM	GERMANY	25833	25810	25718	25418	25908	26050	26150	26266	25920
11:23:56PM	US500	7636.2
11:26:42PM	DOW	52772.5
11:29:27PM	NASDAQ	29094.1
11:32:25PM	JAPAN	64665

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:BT.A British Telecom. Close Mid-Price: 205.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 207.4 Day Low: 201.8

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 597.1 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 612.2 Day Low: 593.7

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1164 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1177 Day Low: 1153.5

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LSE:SDY Speedyhire. Close Mid-Price: 17.66 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 18.1 Day Low: 17.32

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LSE:TLW Tullow. Close Mid-Price: 21.45 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 23 Day Low: 20.7

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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:BP. BP PLC** **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: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: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: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** **

There are just 119 days until Christmas Day. To be fair, counting down “the days” isn’t something we’re guilty of – except for an end to the days of horror which is August on the stock market. Even reviewing the price of Crude Oil has become an exercise in futility, the markets clearly opting to keep it effectively trapped in place until something positive or negative actually takes place. Perhaps Mr Trump shall decide to rename the Straits of Hormuz something like “Trump Straits” in memory of his fantastic success in destabilising the region, pushing oil profits to new surprise levels.

We shall not be surprised, if September brings some surprise reversals on the price of Brent, potentially to around the $77 dollar level, if only because the markets are bored at the lack of activity…

As for the FTSE, we shall not be aghast if the market opts to end the month with a bit of a squeak. Currently, weakness below 10,770 looks very capable of provoking reversal down to an initial 10,731 points with our secondary, if broken, a considerably less likely 10,679 points. Visually, there is nothing currently hinting this secondary could be viable, especially as it would dump the UK index in a zone where the Big Picture is presenting a long term bottom at 10,413 as possible, this being a target which does make some visual sense.

If this drop triggers, the tightest stop is wide at 10,827 points.

Our alternate, more positive, scenario covers what’s possible, if the UK nudges above 10,827 points. In such a game plan, we can calculate the hope of movement to an initial 10,866 points with our secondary, if bettered, at 10,694 points along with very probable hesitation.

Have a good weekend. Just 9 days until the next Grand Prix from Italy, sometimes worth missing.

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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
11:21:47PM	BRENT	8822.1	8450	8372		8687	8890	8969		8804
11:29:56PM	GOLD	4607.43	4577	4560		4602	4643	4676		4599
11:32:39PM	FTSE	10800.4	10771	10748		10811	10844	10872		10814	Success
11:35:17PM	STOX50	6429.9	6414	6409		6436	6467	6490		6437	Success
11:38:21PM	GERMANY	26367	26238	26186		26309	26401	26442		26336
11:41:23PM	US500	7722.3	7688	7677		7715	7732	7744		7709
11:44:33PM	DOW	53557	53317	53215		53486	53712	53872		53600	‘cess
11:47:21PM	NASDAQ	29577.7	29341	29231		29505	29647	29700		29464	‘cess
11:52:44PM	JAPAN	66050	65671	65128		65995	66510	66821		66148

 

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:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1160.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1185 Day Low: 1155

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LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech. Close Mid-Price: 183.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 191.4 Day Low: 181.9

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LSE:SDY Speedyhire. Close Mid-Price: 18.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 18.7 Day Low: 18.1

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