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It was a good Grand Prix, thanks to the rain. It was a rotten weekend, thanks to the Argyll rain. Locally, ducks are giving swimming lessons to other birds… But the race itself was enjoyable, once again underlining the key to an entertaining race comes from things going wrong which the leaden hands of the organisers cannot control. It was certainly a surprise seeing the field of race cars behave like a Temu solar panel, failing to work once sprinkled with rain. One wonders if it is possible to purchase solar lights from China which remain working in the UK climate. From the behaviour of the Formula1 field, it seems certain the teams have been buying cheep waterproof electronics from Temu…

We’re enjoying a little grumble about Barclays share price movements. We’d proposed a “secondary” drop target of 453p when we reviewed the share three weeks ago. As the chart extract below shows, on October 1st the market chose to manipulate (gap) Barclays price below our 453p when the market woke up, suggesting a new trend has potentially kicked off.  From our perspective, this feels like “they” sprinkled Barclays share price with a dusting of Temu magic, giving the potentials for some unpleasant further failures.

But on a brighter note – and we’ll come back to this later – share price closure above 458p may now be taken as an extremely positive signal for future growth. Or alternately, the share price manipulated (gapped) above such a level at the open of trade.

Unfortunately, for now, we have little choice but to anticipate the worst, weakness below 435 threatening to trigger reversal to an initial 402p with our secondary, if broken, a more painful 353p. Ridiculous movement such as this tends add fuel to the arguments which despair of FTSE market behaviour, driving shares to seek relisting outside the UK. The callous treatment of Tullow in recent days has been an extreme example of the cavalier notion of “logic” which permeates the UK markets.

Our alternate “happy” scenario, if it’s all been a dreadful mistake, suggests above 458p may potentially give the first signal of an error being corrected, calculating with the potential of a lift to an initial 491p with our secondary, if beaten, at 522p. This secondary target is visually quite pleasing, suggesting a price level where some hesitation should take place despite a third level attraction coming from a distant 559p.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
2:52:42PM	BRENT	10199.9	9775	9626	9395	9950	10321	10571	10974	10140
2:55:14PM	GOLD	4140.29
2:59:09PM	FTSE	10497.8
3:16:04PM	STOX50	6255.6
3:18:27PM	GERMANY	25271.4
3:44:50PM	US500	7721.6
3:47:41PM	DOW	51187	50531	49876	48250	51147	51643	52091	52611	51339
3:51:17PM	NASDAQ	30793.9
3:55:33PM	JAPAN	69566

 

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:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 443.65 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 445.85 Day Low: 435.7

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LSE:GRG Greggs. Close Mid-Price: 2026 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2054 Day Low: 1980

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 990 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1017 Day Low: 931

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LSE:IQE IQE. Close Mid-Price: 54.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 55.2 Day Low: 49.85

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc. Close Mid-Price: 260.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 268.4 Day Low: 259.2

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LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech. Close Mid-Price: 223.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 237 Day Low: 207.8

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 3102 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 3132 Day Low: 3012

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LSE:SCLP Scancell. Close Mid-Price: 9.45 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 9.46 Day Low: 9.35

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LSE:TLW Tullow. Close Mid-Price: 7.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 10.5 Day Low: 7.8

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Risk Warning & Notice to Investors

Buying, selling and investing in shares is not without risk. Market and company movement will affect your performance and you may get back less than you invest. Neither Trends and Targets Ltd, Shareprice, or Interactive Investor will be responsible for any losses that may be incurred as a result of following a trading idea.

Last Friday, our FTSE outlook presented 10,415 points as a potential market bottom. The reversal was to take another 4 days to enact with the “strength” of the drop proving as clear as mud. The index indeed reached our target as shown below, breaking our 10,415 target just after 9am on Thursday. Ultimately, during intraday shenanigans, it was to reach 10,390 points in what would normally count as a solid break of the target level. However… this was not to be the end of the story, the index ending the session at 10,428 points and from our perspective, failing to officially destroy our target, the market closing a touch higher.

While there may be a touch of saving face here, explaining a scenario where a price both meets target AND fails to break it, this is always a frustration with our insistence on a Closing Price rule. Had the UK index CLOSED the session below 10,415 points, we’d be cheerfully announcing a major reversal scenario commencing. Instead, we are forced into caution as nothing is looking certain.

We’re left with a classic conundrum. The market “proved” our target level can be broken but also “proved” it wasn’t immediately ready to kick open the gates of hell with a potential apocalyptic scenario. At present, about the only confident thing we dare suggest (for reversals) is of movement below 10,390 igniting a slide down to an initial 10,290 points. Our secondary, if such a level breaks, calculates down at 10,055 points along with a very probable bottom.

But, the market ensured the FTSE didn’t close below our target, implying some surprise strength may be waiting in the wings. Above 10,470 shall be viewed positively, potentially triggering recovery to an initial 10,515 points with our secondary, if bettered, a critical 10,589 points. This secondary is a fairly big deal, dropping the index into a zone where the market can challenge the level of trend break at 10,670 points and the potential of making the current drop something of a fake.

We do, of course, take all this nonsense quite personally as we’re guilty of treating the market as an animate “them” which is clearly ridiculous. After all, whey would “they” avoid the index closing below our target level.

Have a good weekend and pretend to enjoy the Grand Prix. We shall…

 

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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
10:25:23PM	BRENT	10256.9	9592	9288		9800	10292	10420		10107	Success
10:28:55PM	GOLD	4176.43	4138	4106		4168	4192	4211		4172	Success
10:32:00PM	FTSE	10461.3	10386	10352		10452	10564	10641		10467	Success
10:35:10PM	STOX50	6180.4	6160	6099		6200	6272	6320		6210	Success
10:40:28PM	GERMANY	24975.5	24829	24710		24998	25230	25355		25036	Shambles
10:43:56PM	US500	7667.9	7616	7606		7654	7691	7720		7659	Success
10:48:39PM	DOW	50921.8	50557	50066		51026	51199	51386		50976	‘cess
10:51:47PM	NASDAQ	30506.9	30263	30053		30421	30873	30970		30493	‘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: 505 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 515 Day Low: 498.5

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 438.95 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 454.85 Day Low: 437.8

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 2427 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2491 Day Low: 2403

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1279 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1329 Day Low: 1279

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LSE:IQE IQE. Close Mid-Price: 49.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 50.55 Day Low: 46.95

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LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech. Close Mid-Price: 214 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 220.8 Day Low: 211.2

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 3014 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 3034 Day Low: 2878

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LSE:PHP Primary Health. Close Mid-Price: 89.55 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 91.7 Day Low: 89.5

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 58.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 60.5 Day Low: 56.2

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On Wednesday, I became the “pratt in a convertible“. Leaving a hospital appointment, the car dashboard reported 19.5c outside, signalling what was probably going to be the last day of the year the magic button could be pushed and the VW  EOS mechanical roof retracted. Roof down, flat cap on, shades on, the 8 mile journey to the ferry terminal commenced, as usual enjoying a similar feeling to riding a motorcycle, aware of everything going on 360 degrees around. The similarity to riding a motorcycle is nothing to do with “wind in the hair” nonsense, just the massively improved feeling of awareness by escaping from the confines of a tin box.

It was curious, driving down the ramp to the ferry, how the sun had remained the same, yet the outside temperature had dropped to 16c. Clearly the return to Argyll was underway! But within another 5 minutes .of the ferry choosing to reverse across the estuary (fairly common with heavy sea swells to protect car windscreens from damage), the outside temperature was now 16c and my finger was solidly holding the magic button in the “UP” position, the thing refusing point blank to move due to “Luggage Compartment Sensor Error”, a nasty message advising I hadn’t tidied away my shopping from Aldi and Tesco, thus giving the VW the chance to behave like a supermarket Self Scan ‘assistant’ and furnish as little aid as possible. In a totally non scientific experiment, Tesco won the award for the least helpful assistant, someone who was happy to bypass the flashing red light above the machine, though less willing to remove the security tag from the blue jeans which caused the alert. I always wonder whether my Scottish patterned checked scarf (which looks rather like Palestinian protest headgear) shall get me through a security checkpoint on a two tier nod and wink. This remains an untried test.

Aldi, on the other hand, had self scan Gestapo with a sense of humour, cheerfully pointing out I’d inverted the “Pick Up, Scan, Drop” sides of their gadget, then taking over the job. When I got home, I noticed the bloke had only scanned 5 of the 8 bags of coffee beans!!! Rushing back and pointing out the 12 quid error is impossible, due to the £50 ferry return ticket. I like to think I’m an honest guy but there is a limit.

Once I’d played Jenga with all the shopping in the car boot, the roof finally deigned to close just before we docked in Argyll. The outside temperature was now 14c, the wind rather strong, and the unspoken “Pratt” word visible on every face who’d been watching the pantomime with the car roof. But when leaving the ferry, virtually every vehicle turned left, suggesting they were tourists/day trippers, with only myself turning right to head into the frozen wasteland which is now Argyll… Summer is officially over!

To seamlessly lead into 80 Mile, a company focussed on Exploration and Development of Energy and Strategic Resources in Greenland, Wednesday provided a sharp reminder Argyll enjoys an Arctic Climate thanks to very little between the area and the North Pole. Though perhaps 80 Mile have a building on Greenland which briefly interrupts our inbound weather.

According to our calculations, above 1.3p should next promote share price growth to an initial 1.9p with our secondary, if exceeded, working out at a future 2.4p. The close proximity of these target levels tends suggest the probability of a glass ceiling making an appearance somewhere between these two target levels. The implication of such behaviour is quite fascinating, a suggestion share price closure some point in the future, shall open the doors for a cycle leading to an eventual 5p. This would prove quite a big deal, justifying the flurry of emails we received asking our opinion for the long term.

Our inevitable negative scenario needs mentioned as it’s quite troubling. The share price needs below 0.4p for real panic, entering a cycle where the eventual bottom works out at an impossible -4p. While we truly look forward to the day a company shall offer “investors” 4p to take a share off their hands, the chances are unlikely. Unless they perhaps appoint a current Government chancellor as the Chief Financial Officer, someone we suspect perfectly capable of lowering a car roof on a day like Wednesday.

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
10:57:15PM	BRENT	9727.8	9637	9457	9202	9859	9856	9893	10036	9777
11:00:39PM	GOLD	4153.16	4150	4141	4115	4158	4164	4168	4175	4154
11:09:27PM	FTSE	10594.9
11:16:11PM	STOX50	6257.1									‘cess
11:21:06PM	GERMANY	25140.4									Success
11:31:47PM	US500	7675.6									Shambles
11:44:36PM	DOW	51042									‘cess
11:48:49PM	NASDAQ	30497.3									Success
11:51:44PM	JAPAN	67015									Shambles

 

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:BLOE Block Energy PLC. Close Mid-Price: 0.85 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0.85 Day Low: 0.788

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LSE:BME B & M. Close Mid-Price: 255.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 261.6 Day Low: 253.4

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LSE:IQE IQE. Close Mid-Price: 49.15 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 49.15 Day Low: 46.45

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LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech. Close Mid-Price: 217.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 218.6 Day Low: 201.8

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 3020 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 3032 Day Low: 2836

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 59.1 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 64 Day Low: 58.2

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 787 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 793 Day Low: 671

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1590.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1600 Day Low: 1581

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2298 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2364 Day Low: 2298

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LSE:TLW Tullow. Close Mid-Price: 10.26 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 16.62 Day Low: 9.4

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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: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: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: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:PHP Primary Health** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:SBRY Sainsbury** **LSE:SCLP Scancell** **LSE:SDY Speedyhire** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:SRP Serco** **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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Back in the day... a favourite bit of software was a spreadsheet package called SuperCalc. Microsoft Excel still hadn’t been assembled yet, a product which successfully cherry picked the best bits of existing main players in the spreadsheet game (Lotus123 & Supercalc) and integrated “easily” with other Microsoft products. Almost overnight, Supercalc & Lotus seemed to vanish

From a personal perspective, this was my first entry into the Car Finance game as I was asked to produce something to replace the horrid Ready Reckoner little books for car finance, utterly hated by everyone who worked in our company car showrooms. A rookie mistake was to spend a few minutes working out the correct monthly payment for a deal, only for the customer to ask “how much will it be a month, if I pay an extra £500? Customers only really wanted the monthly payment. Producing a spreadsheet with some embedded macro’s turned the finance calculation into the work of seconds and it was quickly reported back that clients tended not to question whatever figures were produced from the Apricot PC used in the car showroom.

When everything hit the fan over the victimless “crime” Close Brothers, and other financiers were involved in, I paid a bit of attention to the story though I’d been away from the car game for over 30 years. Introducing computers to business, along with some success with software, ensured a different path was taken away from my families motor trade business’s.

It was certainly a surprise seeing Close Brothers surge by 15% on news of continued loss, along with a new figure to settle claims relating to the Motor Finance Consumer Redress Scheme.

An interesting situation exists for the share price, the share value solidly exceeding the downtrend since 2021 and suggesting a new game may be afoot. As a result, above 446p looks capable of triggering further gains to an initial 470p and visually, some potential hesitation.  Our longer term secondary works out at 501p which should expose the share to an attraction from a future 554p, along with plenty of visuals which demand a stall in gains as it will match a bunch of highs since 2024. Should such a level be achieved, we shall need stare hard into our tea leaves again to present a reasonable scenario for the more distant future.

Our alternate scenario, if the current situation turns out to be a trap, suggests below 375p could trigger reversal to an initial 339p with our secondary, if broken, at a probable bottom at 280p.

Fingers crossed but we suspect Close Brothers are going to head upward.

 

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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
9:28:29PM	BRENT	9528.8
9:31:09PM	GOLD	4174.54
9:52:47PM	FTSE	10658.3	10606	10548	10473	10658	10757	10794	10856	10690	Success
9:57:02PM	STOX50	6337.5
10:00:52PM	GERMANY	25451.8
10:03:38PM	US500	7678.4									‘cess
10:13:36PM	DOW	51407.8
10:16:25PM	NASDAQ	30374.8	30223	30153	30055	30374	30446	30498	30632	30335
10:20:18PM	JAPAN	66142									‘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:CPI Capita. Close Mid-Price: 218 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 221 Day Low: 213.5

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LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G. Close Mid-Price: 41.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 41.8 Day Low: 40.1

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 2472 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2542 Day Low: 2438

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LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech. Close Mid-Price: 199.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 201.4 Day Low: 179

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2976 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 3010 Day Low: 2842

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 64 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 66.8 Day Low: 64

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2329 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2360 Day Low: 2329

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 0.78 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0.85 Day Low: 0.775

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In a classic instance of “getting it wrong”, we read the fluff press release from the UK Government, announcing a fabulous, world beating, initiative, a brand new equity loan scheme designed to support first time buyers. To our utter surprise, the market chose to “believe the headline” rather than “question reality” with the domestic building sector accelerating by around 15% on average, this despite everyone knowing in their heart of hearts it was a “fluff” announcement, designed to detract attention from more important matters.

The reality of the initiative will pull everything up short, there probably being a requirement for DNA tests to ensure no applicant has the Red Hair gene, every supplicant enjoying a 1/1 from a prestigeous university, and of course, a guarantee of a job for life from their employer. The usual, in other words, an initiative which shall be torpedoed by small print. Most recently, we saw this sort of nonsense with the cost of heating oil, a Government Initiative promising £300 off the next bill. But the reality proved ridiculous, a check in Scotland revealing no-one had successfully applied for their £300. The media, of course, loudly proclaimed the initial idea, yet failed to mention that after 6 months, not a single household benefited from the initiative.

This sort of “let them eat cake” thinking shall end quite poorly as sooner of later, idiotic politicians shall find themselves in a King Canute situation, a poor bloke often blamed as being delusional. The reality was he was proving to his subjects that just because he said something, it didn’t make it true. The populace had to watch the tide swill around his hairy legs before they started to see the point. Unfortunately, in the case of UK Politics, the players appear to be full of self delusion, thinking saying something makes it true. The fate of the fragrant Nicola Sturgeon, disgraced former head of the Scottish Government has become a perfect example. Nowadays, if she says anything, an entire nation checks its validity as who knows, water might not be wet! (We admit a tiny bit of bias where she’s concerned…)

Anyway, our personal political axes aside, we strongly suspect the Domestic Building Industry flourish shall prove to be a flash in the pan, worse manipulation of the markets than currently being inflicted on the oil markets. From our sceptical perspective, we need Persimmon to CLOSE a session above 1401p before we shall dare the share price is exhibiting true growth potentials. It’s probably true above 1350p shall prove capable of promoting movement but we’re cynical, due to man made immediate movements we regard as “pretend”.

There is an interesting immediate signal, the Blue downtrend since 2021 currently sitting at 1330p. As the chart extract below shows, the market refused to let Persimmon share price to actually CLOSE the session above the trend. This could be quite interesting, like spotting a cop with a speed camera trying to hide behind an elephant. After all, who’d notice an elephant in Surrey?

 

Conventional wisdom amongst brokers is to propose Persimmon as being in a “no brainer” position, where every day in the future promises to be a happy one. As the two chart extracts above show, we’re not entirely sold on this concept, quite the opposite as we suspect the immediate cycle of gains to be fake. If we’re right, below 1301p has the potential of triggering reversals to an initial 1178p with our secondary, if broken, at a hopeful bottom at 1,094p. Though we can paste on a potential third level “bottom” at 1,019p… This is not a tidy situation.

Our alternate “happy” scenario, if the brokers gagging about upward potentials prove correct, demands we wait until such time Persimmon share price exceeds 1401p as this should signal a recovery cycle commencing to an initial 1645p with our secondary, if exceeded, working out at a future 1781p. This is all quite a big deal, giving a Big Picture suggestion that a future 2414p is dangling a distant attraction somewhere in the mists of time.

 

Our kneejerk is to anticipate reversals for Persimmon, if only because “the headline is always the lie”.

 

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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
10:20:26PM	BRENT	9796.8									Shambles
10:48:47PM	GOLD	4114.04	4110	3989	3753	4170	4170	4185	4210	4140	Success
10:53:59PM	FTSE	10722.1
10:56:30PM	STOX50	6337.1	6284	6257	6218	6315	6374	6386	6400	6333	Success
10:59:10PM	GERMANY	25496.7									‘cess
11:01:53PM	US500	7684.9
11:05:17PM	DOW	51480.3									‘cess
11:10:55PM	NASDAQ	30266.5									‘cess
11:15:37PM	JAPAN	65680

 

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

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

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

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

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

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 945 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 958 Day Low: 935.5

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LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC. Close Mid-Price: 0.83 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0.975 Day Low: 0.8

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LSE:BME B & M. Close Mid-Price: 252 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 254.2 Day Low: 248.8

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LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone. Close Mid-Price: 205 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 206 Day Low: 201

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2322 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2356 Day Low: 2300

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 0.85 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0.925 Day Low: 0.85

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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey. Close Mid-Price: 89.32 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 98.8 Day Low: 88.8

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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: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: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: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:STAR Star Energy** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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It appears it has been the USA’s turn to manipulate the price of Crude Oil. With IRAN offering a deal for peace and passage, it was no surprise to hear the USA promptly offer a rebuttal which, of course, spiked the price of oil. As a result, we raced into the weekend with Crude oil again exploring highs, at least by recent standards  Doubtless, America shall next discover a solution, one which the Iranians shall dash when the price of Brent Crude starts explore the $83 level in a few weeks.

However, the Baku Grand Prix managed to be more exciting and less predictable than oil prices, the track generally capable of some interest due to the places where it’s as narrow as the milk and cheese aisle in a supermarket. The fact there was a real motor race, literally right up to the chequered flag, made the event quite fun, even though it was on a Saturday and watched through the hazy fog ot red & white wines, along with Chinese takeaway. Unfortunately, with Bahrain next weekend, we anticipate the worst, a boring processional race with the finishing order already sorted by the previous days qualifying.

Lloyds share price appears to have decided behaving in sympathy with with a world, where so many outcomes appear already decided, it’s now the case where below 107p risks triggering reversal to an initial 100p with our longer term secondary, if broken, calculating at 94p. Visually this would make quite a lot of sense for a bounce level.

However, there is always a chance Lloyds shall enact some movement of strength, the share price exhibiting an extremely strong argument, where movement exceeding 114p should now target a confident looking 123p, a price level at which we anticipate some hesitation. Longer term, our secondary now works out at a less confident sounding 132p.

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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
10:58:11PM	BRENT	10000.2	9872	9775	9624	10091	10228	10296	10430	9983	‘cess
10:10:32PM	GOLD	4273.4	4245	4234	4216	4269	4296	4314	4337	4270	‘cess
10:20:51PM	FTSE	10713.1	10663	10619	10576	10695	10750	10764	10794	10701	‘cess
11:02:03PM	STOX50	6297.7	6269	6258	6235	6294	6329	6337	6367	6301	‘cess
11:07:07PM	GERMANY	25336.7	25160	25031	24969	25340	25462	25596	25741	25360	‘cess
11:15:45PM	US500	7689	7660	7653	7611	7695	7720	7744	7778	7684	Success
11:19:24PM	DOW	51278.8	51115	50981	49724	51500	51502	51677	51864	51361	‘cess
11:32:04PM	NASDAQ	30411	30211	30108	29965	30350	30534	30635	30820	30402	Success
11:36:26PM	JAPAN	65829	65333	65145	64835	65658	66075	66348	66710	65739	‘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:PHP Primary Health. Close Mid-Price: 91.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 92.75 Day Low: 91.6

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LSE:SDY Speedyhire. Close Mid-Price: 14.44 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 14.8 Day Low: 14.12

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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: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:GKP Gulf Keystone** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **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:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **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:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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The only thing we hate more than the FTSE, currently, is our fabulous new dentist. I shall never understand why some people pay other people to inflict pain, when the dental profession has an entire battalion of folk lurking and ready to shatter any illusion of calm. On this visit, it was the dental nurse who spruced the session upward. As it was Thursday, invariably she was talking about her plans for the weekend. A bunch of her pals were coming round for a dolly party. Myself and the dentist exchanged a look, our minds struggling with the notion of a bunch of teenage girls playing with dolls. Then the girl added a crucial detail, she’d all Dolly Partons hits on a Karaoke machine. Suddenly, it all made sense, especially her comment about dressing up to look like dolly. To be honest, she’ll probably have a better time than our “Baku” party as while the race is usually memorable, any attempt at producing Azerbaijani food is destined to failure. This race is scheduled for Saturday, thanks to a clash with an important national day on the Sunday, creating a situation where friends visiting shall doubtless stay overnight. Hopefully we can finish off last years bottles of wine… An important lesson, when wine tastes great after fermentation, drink it. Do not wait a year for it to mature as, in our experience, the results were poured away. But if it’s still a bit fruity or sweet, bottle it and wait. The results after some time to mature have proven quite impressive.

As for the FTSE, we’ve been fruitlessly hoping all the grown ups returning from holiday would be sufficient to goose the index into life. Instead, the markets overall have been proving fairly placid (ignoring the Nasdaq as it’s disproportionately weighted by just 5 shares) and we suspect wars & politics are exerting a stifling effect, simply because no-one seems to know what’s really going on. We’ve a strong suspicion oil prices and supply are about to throw a spanner in the works.

Currently, movement below 10,650 risks promoting reversal to an initial 10,480 points on the FTSE. Our secondary, if broken, calculates at 10,415 points and “hopefully” a market bottom. Unfortunately, there’s a major problem with these innocent little drops as they target the market into a zone, where we can project 9,450 points as a third level target. If triggered, the tightest stop is at 10,700 points. There’s also a “risk” the market shall rebound at 10,530, this representing a new target frame being used on the FTSE.

However, we’ve our usual alternate scenario, this time a positive view. Above 10,770 could potentially trigger tame movement to an initial 10,790 points with our secondary, if bettered, at 10,870. If the market intends continue wandering in circles, this positive scenario feels likely.

Have a good weekend and enjoy the Grand Prix.

FUTURES

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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
10:58:11PM	BRENT	10000.2	9872	9775	9624	10091	10228	10296	10430	9983	‘cess
10:10:32PM	GOLD	4273.4	4245	4234	4216	4269	4296	4314	4337	4270	‘cess
10:20:51PM	FTSE	10713.1	10663	10619	10576	10695	10750	10764	10794	10701	‘cess
11:02:03PM	STOX50	6297.7	6269	6258	6235	6294	6329	6337	6367	6301	‘cess
11:07:07PM	GERMANY	25336.7	25160	25031	24969	25340	25462	25596	25741	25360	‘cess
11:15:45PM	US500	7689	7660	7653	7611	7695	7720	7744	7778	7684	Success
11:19:24PM	DOW	51278.8	51115	50981	49724	51500	51502	51677	51864	51361	‘cess
11:32:04PM	NASDAQ	30411	30211	30108	29965	30350	30534	30635	30820	30402	Success
11:36:26PM	JAPAN	65829	65333	65145	64835	65658	66075	66348	66710	65739	‘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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