Kier Group, when Clickbait isn’t needed?

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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Marks & Spencer Group Plc (LSE:MKS) and Baklava

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.

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


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Games Workshop PLC. Perhaps There’s Something to Warhammer?

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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Barclays PLC (LSE:BARC)  trading around 492.47p at time of writing.

As we’d hoped, the Spanish Grand Prix indeed provided an entertaining race and the new(ish) guy – Antonelli- delivered a race which must make Verstappen realise he’ll never be one of the “greats”, unable to equal or beat the Schumacher & Hamilton count of victories.  Perversely, this is liable to produce more entertainment in future races as Verstappen rarely performs fairly when under pressure.  But Barclays bank shares are certainly showing considerable cool, despite the pressure of its Blue downtrend since 2007, a trend line which has no business in effecting share prices, aside from the fact it clearly is.

The most recent three weeks has seen Barclays share price adhere to the Blue line as if it were important! This is proving a little confusing as the chart extract below highlights.

This 19 year trend line shuffle is a bit mad but, if we apply our conventional criteria, it’s apparently the share were future weakness below 484p now risks triggering reversal to an initial 475p with our secondary, if broken, a potential bottom of 453p. Hopefully achieving such a level shall also prove capable of generating a bounce.

But on a brighter note, above 500p should now trigger gains to an initial 512p with our secondary, if exceeded, calculating at a future 525p and almost certain hesitation. Things shall only become exciting in the event the share closes above 525p, strongly suggesting a breakaway from “safe” harbour of the Blue trend line has commenced as a future ambition at 564p has commenced.

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Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
10:44:12PM BRENT 10265 10171 10032 9781 10330 10794 11176 11767 9836
10:47:30PM GOLD 4347.61 4333 4313 4283 4362 4362 4397 4430 4333
10:49:43PM FTSE 10663 10651 10623 10592 10665 10683 10692 10711 10651
10:51:39PM STOX50 6320.2 6284 6270 6246 6316 6337 6353 6387 6307
11:06:06PM GERMANY 25425.9 25396 25351 25272 25556 25592 25696 25828 25540
11:16:21PM US500 7606.4 7601 7593 7564 7622 7680 7697 7736 7654
11:18:14PM DOW 52335.6 52198 52043 51819 52392 52724 52955 53284 52564
11:20:25PM NASDAQ 29001.8 28966 28824 28607 29091 29478 29704 29950 29374
11:22:34PM JAPAN 63370 63091 62610 61855 63639 64897 65049 65623 64636

 

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: 1130.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1140.5 Day Low: 1124.5

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2760 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2840 Day Low: 2732

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2298 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2298 Day Low: 2262

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Our Globally Read FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX)

From a personal perspective, the only thing having a worse week than the FTSE has been this writer. On Monday, things started to go a bit weird, a recent diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes meaning the Pharmacist at our local GP surgery got to stab me, determined I’d be comfortable self administering the diabetes and fat bloke drug called Ozempic. While I’ve lost 2.5kg since Monday, the reason was probably due to Tuesdays Dentist appointment. A root canal treatment went wrong, when a hairline fracture in the tooth split wide open. Three teeth were removed and stitches required, creating a situation where eating has not been high on the priorities list.  But creamy mushroom soup has served the job for dinner and breakfast, along with taking far too many Ibuprofen for the pain. But keen to prove nothing was too stupid, a visit to our local Chiropodist took place on Thursday, a “slightly” ingrown big toenail needing dealt with. This twenty minutes of hell left me sitting quietly in my car, waiting ’till calm restored itself before driving home.

A lesson was learned, in future only the services of one professional “ist” shall be engaged per week as all these people seem determined to inflict pain.

As mentioned, the FTSE has been experiencing a similar friend, probably at the hands of Analysts and Politicianists. One worry for next week comes from the Economists who are doubtless advising central banks to increase interest rates, even though the reductions experienced by the UK lagged behind everywhere else. For instance, Europe and NZ recently increased their rates to 2.75%, still substantially below the UK’s current 3.75% which is damaging the entire country. The rate decision is at noon next Thursday.

Things are not looking great for the FTSE on Friday, movement below 10,592 looking capable of triggering reversal to an initial 10,555 points. Should such a level break, our longer term secondary calculates down at 10,515 and perhaps a bounce. But overall, the market is already looking dangerously attracted to a future bottom at 10,413 points.

However, there is a faint light shining in the misery of darkness. For the FTSE, should the index clamber above 10,673 points, we can hope for gains to an initial 10,699 points with our secondary, if exceeded, at 10,777 points and an urgent need to revisit our tea leaves.

On a brighter note, it’s the usually entertaining Spanish Grand Prix this weekend and hopefully solid food shall be on our menu. 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
11:27:38PM BRENT 10588.9 10229 10037 10423 10800 10988 10390
11:30:14PM GOLD 4324.37 4314 4288 4365 4378 4417 4303
11:45:48PM FTSE 10610.5 10581 10541 10765 10685 10711 10622 ‘cess
11:48:35PM STOX50 6264.9 6251 6225 6278 6328 6350 6303
11:52:01PM GERMANY 25334.5 25297 25077 25599 25623 25748 25502 Success
11:57:12PM US500 7603.5 7580 7552 7610 7658 7695 7623 ‘cess
11:18:06PM DOW 52174 51960 51867 52158 52653 52967 52386 ‘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

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1128.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1146.5 Day Low: 1127.5

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 595 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 602 Day Low: 588

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LSE:VOD Vodafone. Close Mid-Price: 128.65 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 129.2 Day Low: 125.95

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Savills Plc (LSE:SVS)  trading around 1,016p at time of writing.

We’ve had a couple of experiences with Savills, each forcing us to conclude the Estate Agency tend be committed to doing the best for their client, rather than simply trying to get a property off their books and move onto the next thing. \Our first Savills car crash happened back in 2009, when everything in the world was going to heck and we thought we’d spotted an amazing property which could be snatched up for a song. There was a property listed at offers over  £250,000, at a time when – for example – you could buy Bank of Scotland shares with chocolate coins. As the bank had declined to 9p or so, we felt the hysterical media was creating panic everywhere, suspecting we could take advantage of the awful market.

To be fair, very few folk were buying property in 2009, so we were pretty certain a bargain could be had. After offering £150,000 for the property without the need to get a mortgage, the seller took around a week before caving, accepting our offer and letting our lawyer know. We literally couldn’t believe our luck, the place being incredibly attractive with 5 bedrooms, a couple of kitchens, and a large paddock which bordered a river. Also, private parking for around 10 cars, along with a turning circle made it useful. The only thing the place lacked was a large garage. And for 24 hours it was ours, until the next day. Our Lawyer called to advise the acceptance had been withdrawn on advice from the Estate Agent. She felt, while a legal squabble was possible, it could take years without a certain outcome and thus, we’d be best adjusting our offer or finding somewhere else. Thankfully, we did, our current tiny little house enjoying quite a bit of land, along with the front leading down to the sea shore. And when floods hit back in the 2001 storms, the house we missed was learning to swim, the river completely flooding the place. Meanwhile, we’ve a seashore, a waterfall, a cliff, and a deciduous forest, all of which we somehow cope with. But we were left impressed by Savills and their protection of their clients interests, even though we were foiled in “stealing” a property.

More recently – words are being chosen with care – a property appears on the Savills lists, our daughter falling completely in love with the place. She’d passed the screening from Savills, was allowed to sail across to the property, decided it represented the rest of her life. She made a 7 figure offer, the owner apparently happy at the prospect of a 6 figure gain above the asking price. We visited the place, dud the tour, and immediately knew it would be a mistake buy for our daughter, the annual costs of such a location being horrific. However, our offer below the £1 Million threshold was passed to the Estate Agents client and immediately rejected. And this is where it all fell apart, a surprise offer of above £2 Million coming from a New York buyer, who shall doubtless have fun trying to make the place suitable for human habitation.

To explain, a fortune had been expended building a substantial house on this remote piece of land but no consideration had been given to a tiny little issue, “what happens where you dock your boat and want to carry a big outer of toiler paper to the house? A half mile uphill walk awaits, following a narrow deer track. What is needed was gravel tracks for a small 4 wheeler, none of which exist on the land. But with winter winds exceeding regular 60mph blasts, along with an unfair ratio of rain, the place is exactly why folk need be careful about property on the west of Scotland.  It would be true to say, the quieter an area is, the worse the weather is liable to be. But our daughter still grumbles about ‘missing’ her dream property, blissfully unaware of the real costs involved in owning a “nice place” in Argyll. am area of Scotland which can be hell for around 10 months of the year, either blessed with foul weather or biting insects. Either May or June can be capable of leaving tourists alive.

But in summary, Savills appear to have the interests of their clients at the forefront.

Will Savills share price manage to impress us?

Currently below 800 looks capable of triggering reversal to 652p Our secondary is at an extremely unlikely 274p.

Alternately, above 1,084 looks like triggering share price gains to an initial 1,211 with our secondary, if beaten, at 1,422o sometime in the future.

We think Savills should be allowed some positive thoughts for the future.

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Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:35:01PM BRENT 10025.2 ‘cess
11:47:49PM GOLD 4394.12 4375 4304 4236 4434 4434 4440 4472 4386
11:51:57PM FTSE 10644.8 Success
11:55:30PM STOX50 6304.2 Success
12:00:40AM GERMANY 25545.7 25513 25419 25308 25658 25906 26029 26201 25786 Success
11:08:58PM US500 7641.6 Success
11:56:05PM DOW 52484.3 Success
12:11:25AM NASDAQ 29350.2 ‘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.

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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 557.1 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 563.2 Day Low: 552.5

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Brent Crude Oil USD (CCOM:OILBRENT)  trading around $97 at time of writing.

A common theme running through any reports we provide on Crude Oil has been a firm belief the product price is being manipulated. To judge from movements, it feels very like the USA and Iran must be colluding in taking turns to provoke market “crisis”, the driving force always being the start of any trend which risks returning the price of the product to sensible levels. We can be thankful repeated UK Government “initiatives” to diminish North Sea activity in their hunt for Green credentials has ensured the UK has taken a very minor role in the Straits of Hormuz, due to the price of Crude Oil currently providing very little windfall profit to the UK.

Not since UK Chancellor Gordon Brown sold the UK’s Gold Reserves at the bottom of the market, has it been so apparent the Government appears to forget it’s in position for the benefit of the country, rather than adherence to political dogma. We obviously dislike the manual control of oil prices but concede it makes sense for the USA to work in the USA’s interests. Such a common sense approach appears absent from the UK.

Price movements against Brent Crude, since April of this year, in normal circumstances would have strong indicated an imminent return for Brent back to its historically sane price level around $61. Instead, on each occasion the market felt like it was weakening, someone would fire missiles or someone would drop some bombs, waking the media up who oblige with their standard “The Sky is Falling ” headless chicken mode.  It does remain the case where conventional Big Picture logic still allows for market reversals but we’ve about lost confidence this shall happen.

At present, we can calculate an issue at the $100 level. Movement above such a point risks triggering price gains to an initial 119 dollars with our secondary, if bettered, at a painful sounding 129 dollars. This secondary ambition unfortunately makes some visual sense, due to the previous market high when the Ukraine thing kicked off.

If there is to be any form of reversal, we can work out below 91 dollars could now be an issue, capable of triggering an oil drip down to an initial 75 dollars with our secondary, if broken, at $61 and a return to the median price level experienced since 2012.

This certainly creates a situation where $91 represents a reasonable Stop Loss point, if our $100 trigger is activated.

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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
10:27:21PM BRENT 9798.1
10:30:24PM GOLD 4354.72
10:40:52PM FTSE 10762.2 Success
10:43:02PM STOX50 6371.7 6359 6347 6324 6392 6416 6421 6452 6395 ‘cess
10:45:47PM GERMANY 25867.3 ‘cess
10:50:01PM US500 7674.1 ‘cess
10:54:11PM DOW 52793 ‘cess
10:57:47PM NASDAQ 29508 29475 29394 29281 29566 29654 29785 29945 29511
11:00:35PM JAPAN 65080

 

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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