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Looking good for OSB Group Plc? (LSE:OSB), trading around 510p at the time of writing.

#Brent #Nasdaq If that was an Eclipse, the folk in Argyll deserve their money back. As the photo – from a Samsung smartphone – illustrates, the light levels were pretty normal considering it was cloudy and raining. Most of the yacht club sailing fanatics had eschewed their Wednesday evening race, expecting a once in a lifetime event. The BBC even warned drivers may have to turn on their lights to cope with the traumatic situation on unexpected darkness. Without exaggerating the situation, neither our VW or Toyota automatic lights could be bothered triggering. Perhaps the cloud diffused the available light to “Argyll Normal” for the time of day?

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OSB Group Plc are a bit of a puzzle. We reviewed them a couple of months ago and were pleased they achieved our initial target, then had a go at our secondary target of 575p. However, the price rise faded – quite nastily – at 571p, the share being gapped down by 69p the very next day. It was not a great signal from our perspective but a couple of emails arrived this week, asking that we again take a look at the share for the future.

To get the nasty part out of the way, their share price needs below 480 to trigger reversal to an initial 467p with our secondary, if broken, a very possible bottom at 423p.

However, if we concede the folk sending emails may be on to something, it appears movement next above 542p should trigger a lift to an initial 612p with our longer term secondary, if exceeded, working out at a future 656p. Perhaps the current Prime Minister intends do something better than last nights eclipse, producing rules for the financial markets capable of improving the business environment.

It was funny, reading a quote from an American commentator. He mentioned the UK keeps changing the “captain of the ship” and questioned why “the captain never changes course!”. It was obviously a joke but the UK’s garbage pile of ex-Prime Ministers all had one thing in common, an inability to change anything. Maybe this one will bring a difference.

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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
11:31:56PM BRENT 8723.8 8680 8541 8419 8796 8825 8874 8939 8730
11:34:35PM GOLD 4419.01
11:42:34PM FTSE 10811.2
11:47:52PM STOX50 6548.2 ‘cess
11:29:34PM GERMANY 26363
11:33:17PM US500 7748.9
11:36:56PM DOW 53761.5
11:42:46PM NASDAQ 29744.3 29645 29609 29512 29695 29904 29957 30032 29751 ‘cess
11:47:50PM JAPAN 68775 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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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc. Close Mid-Price: 255 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 256 Day Low: 224.4

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LSE:TRN The Trainline. Close Mid-Price: 249.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 251.8 Day Low: 247

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Batman saves Medpal AI Plc (LSE:MPAL), trading around 4.15p at the time of writing.

#FTSE #WallSt The thing below is a Pipistrille bat, the name derived from the Italian word for Bat. In other words, the most common British bat could be correctly known as a Bat Bat. It also represents the only time I’ve had to resort to Google, just to figure out which was round an animal is pointing! The pointy ears should have given a clue. It was outside on the patio this morning, slowly moving around and scaring our Golden Retriever silly. As the sun was shining, my immediate diagnosis was it was probably thirsty, so a rag was soaked  with water and it clambered on. The beastie did perhaps take some water and decided it would be happy spending a few hours in the shade, while I checked on it every hour or so. When it was eventually time to take our dog to her afternoon Vet appointment, the decision was made to bring the bat along. Sometimes, veterinary surgeons have weird interests in peculiar animals, some even claiming to like cats! It transpires the Vet we were scheduled to see was also the practices “Bat Nut”, the bloke delighted with the gift in a little tupperware container. His diagnosis – it had probably been in a fight or maybe flown into something, and would just need time to recover at his home. For a week or two… Happy to be rid of the monster (they are really very small), I agreed to collect it when/if recovery happens and release into our garden, familiar territory.

My wife, of course, had hysterics and wouldn’t allow it in the house, still in shock after a bat flew into the lounge around 15 years ago. It was yet another “Argyll Event”, where we experience surprising animal encounters on a fairly regular basis. This one was unusual, insofar I managed to take a reasonable photograph, including its amazing 5 fingered feet.

Obviously, this all has rather a lot to do with Medpal AI Plc for reasons which utterly escape, other than to include a snapshot of a bat in a share price analysis. But with MedPal already operating a weight-management clinic through its New Health business, folk are getting a little excited at their link up with Eli Lilly and the expected sale of a daily weight loss pill, liable to be more popular than the current self administered injection regimes. In fact, while gossiping with some other folk walking their dogs, the subject of the weight loss pill actually came up. Though folk were probably bored with my Bat Bat story, desperate to change the subject.

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It was easy to develop a kneejerk dislike for MedPal AI Plc as we’re never happy when a company shoehorns whatever “hype” is driving the market into their company name. Hence, our immediate distrust due to the inclusion of “AI”. It’s an APP, it’s driven by software, and will communicate with other software on the company servers. The AI is unlikely to do anything other than produce intelligent sounding responses to users of the App, using far superior grammar than our own. In addition, we were not impressed with their FAQ when we tried to figure out how much this was liable to cost. The website is clearly out of date and no-one has bothered update the ‘all important’ cost, generally the very first thing prospective users will be interested in.

However, the ladies on the dog walk were talking about the new weight loss pill, liable to become popular amongst older folk cursed with arthritis or back pain. Apparently, loss of weight is a major benefit to those so affected, so perhaps MedPal are on the edge of something important and enthusiasm for their share price shall be justified. But personally, remaining suspicious at the “Look At Me” inclusion of AI in the company name, along with an outdated website, some pause for thought is advised.

The immediate situation certainly has some interesting potentials. Movement next above 4.65p calculates with the ambition of a visit to an initial 6.25p with our longer term secondary (or later that day – we don’t reliably do timeframes) at a future 9p, perhaps beyond. The share price has certainly broken through the immediate downtrend but it is worth paying attention to the chart Closing Price inset as the breakout lacks commitment.

Of course, we need provide an alternate scenario, what to expect if the share price discovers an excuse to slink below 3.5p? We currently can calculate an initial 3p as viable with our secondary, if broken, down at an eventual 2.1p.

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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
11:18:11PM BRENT 8817.9
11:20:12PM GOLD 4369.24 Success
11:22:45PM FTSE 10827.3 10809 10796 10763 10829 10895 10915 10950 10854
11:27:16PM STOX50 6544.9 Success
11:29:29PM GERMANY 26386 Success
11:27:51PM US500 7732.6 Success
11:45:33PM DOW 53803.5 53755 53550 53324 53890 54028 54094 54206 53951 Success
11:48:39PM NASDAQ 29529.9 ‘cess
11:51:35PM JAPAN 66981 Sorry

 

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: 179.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 183.8 Day Low: 179

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LSE:TLW Tullow. Close Mid-Price: 14.72 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 15.48 Day Low: 14.68

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Caution on strong drink, Diageo Plc (LSE:DGE), trading around 1,792 at the time of writing.

#Gold #FTSE As part of ensuring the family of back garden Ravens enjoy a balanced diet, we’d bought a watermelon, cut it in half, and set the two halves on top of a tree stump. The father (Russel Crow) didn’t approve of the fruit on his thrown, pushing the largest bit of watermelon onto the lawn. The small bit, he guarded, encircling it with its wings while it was methodically excavated. The female (Cheryl Crow) led the three small birds in destroying the big bit and within a few hours, there was not a single bit of the red watermelon flesh remaining, just the inedible hard shells. Once Russel Crow finished with his smaller section, it was also pushed onto the grass. Meanwhile, the robot mower was patrolling the lawn and I’ll admit to mild curiosity as to what would happen when it met the watermelon remnants.

Monday continued, it becoming clear I should take advantage of the lack of rain by strimming the edges of the lawn, something a robot mower cannot – unfortunately – do. It transpires the biggest enemy of a robots perimeter wire is this small, fat, Scotsman with a strimmer. At one point, the mower reversed from its garage/charging station, executed a series of tight circles, then turned itself off. The flashing lights told me it couldn’t identify a perimeter, a clear sign of a break, a disaster usually caused by the robot digging its own cable up and eating it. But from the point where the thing has stopped, a cable break was impossible, the only other likely culprit being myself and the strimmer. A slow walk around the lawns edges revealed the cut, each severed end soldered together and heat shrink tube sealing the evidence. Relieved to once again know where it was, the robot kicked into life and started its slow patrol, while I dug a new trench to embed the cable in the soil.

After a few minutes, the lawnmower ran into my right wellington clad foot, bouncing off rather than try and draw blood. I lifted it back to the charging station, wondering if it was fully charged. It reversed out, once again ready to patrol the lawn and I returned to my trenching job. Within minutes, the robot tried to crash into me. Deciding it simply didn’t want to coexist on the lawn, I left it to its own devices but only after dinner did I notice the robot had steered clear of both halves of watermelon. In fact, each piece resided on a patch of uncut grass, so assiduously had the machine avoided them. Yet it ran into me TWICE in the space of roughly 20 minutes.  It’s clearly a Scottish Robot. A few weeks ago, it avoided a football. Now, it has avoided fruit and I suspect if a lettuce is placed on the lawn, it shall also avoid it. But a slice of bacon, dropped anywhere, will probably be targeted by the voracious robot with a Scottish disregard for healthy choices.

Obviously, the foregoing neatly brings us to Diageo, a leading booze manufacturer who, according to authorities in India, has been avoiding admitting how they actually make alcohol. One of the accusations relates to whisky, apparently matured for 10 years in American casks. Instead, it is believed Diageo are avoiding the inconvenience of maturing their top selling brand Indian brand. Instead, it is alleged they are making clear alcohol and adding flavourings, producing the top selling Indian Whisky and Rum by nefarious means!

It sounds ridiculous except for an important detail, the sneaky Finnish cheap booze called Kilju (Kill You). In the wine making fraternity, this stupidly cheap Sugar Wine is thought of as being a student dorm room method to get drunk. The end product is allegedly palatable and done properly, within 5 days it is possible to produce something just over 20 proof. The method is simple, 6kg sugar, 21 litres of water, and yeast. The water should be around 28c and everything left alone for 5 days or longer. Longer is apparently better, the heavy bits falling to the bottom of whatever container was used. Eventually a clear liquid can be siphoned out, though some purists attempt to ferment the product twice. This is where Diageo come in, the allegations being they are adding flavourings to the clear liquid to produce product marketed as Whisky or Rum. From our internet wine maker gossip, some quite solid suspicions have emerged about what Diageo may be up to, very effectively cutting production costs for product.. Time will tell. One of our chatroom pals, based in New Zealand, claims she can make Dark Rum in just 7 days, production costing very little per litre.

If Diageo have come up with a quick and cheap method to make palatable booze, we lift our hat to them but harbour a suspicion the market may not be entirely happy. Should their “brewing” scandal from India damage their reputation, things may turn nasty for the share price but realistically, it’s unlikely governments shall care while they’re successfully extracting taxes, duty, tariffs, from production. However, the markets invariably love to discover an excuse to plunge the knife, so we think some care may be needed with Diageo in the months ahead.

This being the case, below 1,370 should ring alarm bells, triggering weakness toward an initial calculation of 1,252p. If broken, our secondary works out at a quite silly “bottom” of just 300p, matching the share price from the 20th century!

Alternately – and visually more believable – above 1,428 should trigger movement to an initial 2,143 with our secondary, if bettered, at 2,420p. There are obviously potentials above such a level but common sense demands we should once again stir the tea leaves. Hopefully, the scandal from India proves to be a Trading Standards fizzle which shall vanish, once the company pays some sort of absurd ransom (or fine) to keep everything quiet.

In summary, we suspect Diageo may be worth watching, unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.

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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
11:31:17PM BRENT 8687.3 Success
11:33:16PM GOLD 4395.63 4314 4276 4234 4349 4403 4415 4430 4356
11:36:18PM FTSE 10852.6 10827 10798 10744 10861 10900 10914 10943 10857
11:38:45PM STOX50 6527.3
11:40:41PM GERMANY 26317.1
11:42:29PM US500 7747.2
11:44:41PM DOW 53909.5
11:47:06PM NASDAQ 29601.3
11:49:55PM JAPAN 66518

 

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:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 708 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 747 Day Low: 696

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 54.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 56.1 Day Low: 50.2

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Happy Natwest Group Plc (LSE:NWG), trading around 712.40 at the time of writing.

#Brent #SP500 We finally got around to binge watching Clarkson’s Farm (mostly excellent) over the weekend, one particular scene making my wife and I quite literally laugh out loud. Jeremy Clarkson and Lisa made themselves comfortable with a couple of drinks, enjoying their new nightcap regime, watching a pair of robots working a field without human intervention. It was funny, ‘cos we’ve found ourselves sitting down with a couple of coffees, chatting while watching our robot tractor keeping itself busy cutting grass. We were, of course, watching Clarkson because it was raining heavily outside, our robot parked in its private garage, secure and dry, robot wheels proving to be rubbish on wet grass, similar to any other type of tyre.

Natwest Group share price feels like it has hit its own patch of wet grass. It successfully hit the 692p level we proposed three weeks ago and it now is slithering around, failing to achieve our secondary of 736p. Instead, it has been spinning its wheels at the 726p level quite convincingly, “almost” making us suspect it’s going no higher. We’ve used parenthesis  around the word “almost” as we’re not convinced at the stall, suspecting it just needs a patch of decent weather in the marketplace to permit further acceleration.

Above 726p now calculates with an initial ambition at 740p with our secondary, if exceeded, working out at 760p, a price level where we think some further hesitation shall occur. But overall, the Big Picture now claims a distant 820p is exerting a long term attraction!

If things intend go wrong, below 688p looks a bit troublesome, capable of provoking reversal down to an initial 677p with our secondary, if broken, at 645p and visually, a point from which a rebound could easily be anticipated. If in such a zone, a Big Picture possibility of a bottom at 598p makes some sort of sense but absolutely nothing currently indicates such a cycle commencing.

Hopefully Natwest share price movements prove more enjoyable than the horror of watching cows and sheep giving birth on Clarkson’s Farm, the camera not missing any details. The scenes certainly gave sufficient excuse to make coffee, pour drinks, or go out and check the robot mower was comfortable in its garage.

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Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
10:50:27PM BRENT 8137.5 8058 7667 7226 8222 8298 8400 8512 8214
1:58:20AM GOLD 4339.02
2:02:02AM FTSE 10894.2
2:08:05AM STOX50 6535
2:15:31AM GERMANY 26360.4
2:20:46AM US500 7753.6 7284 7214 7110 7450 7792 7858 7940 7691
2:43:01AM DOW 54024.8
2:48:21AM NASDAQ 29725.9
2:54:20AM JAPAN 66240

 

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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Our Famed FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX) was trading around 10,872 at the time of writing.

Last week, we dwelled extensively on the difference between a closing price of 10,910 points and 10,908 points. To most sane folk, the two levels are effectively identical but with the FTSE spending the last week carefully avoiding CLOSING a day above 10,910 points – the market high from February this year! – with exquisite care given to respect the FTSE trigger level. As the candles show on the chart extract, despite plenty if intraday forays above the Green closing price line, the FTSE has proven unable to break free upward.

Once again, the importance of Closing Prices is being illustrated, it being a frequent truism to “really” break free of a trend, only a ‘Higher High’ closing price dare be thought of as the only safe signal. Though, of course, there is no such thing as “safe” when discussing the stock markets, either indices, commodities, or share prices. When examining near term movements, it’s obviously virtually impossible to use closing prices but for the FTSE, it certainly appears as if movement next above 10,952 points should bring a visit to an initial 11,017 points with our secondary, if exceeded, working out at 11,088 points. If triggered, the tightest stop loss level appears to be 10,894 points, a bit wide but does reflect the potential for the number of points gained.

In the interests of balance, we’re able to provide an alternate scenario while we impatiently count down the days until the next Grand Prix (just 2 weeks). The situation is a bit wobbly, suggesting FTSE movement below 10,830 points risks triggering reversal down to an initial 10,751 points with our secondary, if broken, a very probable market bottom at 10,721 points. Our visual suspicion with these dance steps will be a belief the UK is indeed “parking” the index, while the grown ups from the market enjoy Benidorm, Butlins, or Blackpool… Meanwhile, the FTSE should be “trapped” between 10,750 and around 10,900 points.

There’s one really unexpected side effect of living in Argyll. We’ve not actually taken a conventional holiday for years. Despite whinging about the foul weather, at the drop of a cliche, we can take a day trip to really nice beach destinations, canoe down the river and paddle along the sea shore to our house, even go skiing in winter with Glencoe around an hour away. Or more often, just spent time mucking around varied projects in the back garden or forest. Talking to other folk from the area, it seems very few people bother going on holiday in any conventional sense.

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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
11:00:33PM BRENT 8235.5 7816 7757 8128 8300 8414 8143 ‘cess
11:06:12PM GOLD 4240.83 4224 4206 4254 4284 4304 4251
11:30:49PM FTSE 10860.6 10849 10831 10882 10916 10936 10890
11:33:03PM STOX50 6500.5 6470 6450 6503 6526 6540 6501
11:35:27PM GERMANY 26170.4 26083 25986 26222 26268 26323 26160
11:39:53PM US500 7714.8 7702 7674 7726 7746 7762 7713 ‘cess
11:44:36PM DOW 53892 53826 53748 54034 54050 54088 53888 ‘cess
11:47:45PM NASDAQ 29470.7 29145 29097 29465 29574 29680 29370 Success
11:50:41PM JAPAN 65779 64901 64786 65533 66351 66605 65826 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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Georgina Energy Plc (LSE:GEX) was trading around 13.75 at the time of writing.

#Gold #Dax Hopefully this is our final grumble about Argyll’s weather for August. The annual monsoon has arrived, delivering what feels like a month’s worth of rain in the space of an hour, accompanied by 60mph winds, temperatures dropping to 11°C, and a garden waterfall that sounds like an F-35 making a vertical take-off. In other words, here in our corner of Scotland, the weather is dreadful, though at least it remains reassuringly predictable. If the usual pattern holds, the final couple of weeks of August should be reasonably pleasant before September ushers in autumn with a proper cold snap.

Of greater irritation, perhaps, is knowing pushing the magic button to retract the mechanical roof of the VW shall be a rare event for the rest of the year! It would be accurate to admit this £1,500 car (for the dogs to ruin) still rates as one of the most fun vehicles ever owned. Needless to say, it is being properly maintained as a “keeper”.

Our predictive abilities also appear to apply to Georgina Energy Plc. We reviewed their share price potentials a couple of months ago, giving a couple of target levels, both of which have now been achieved. The next big deal demands the share price CLOSE a session above 13.8p but so far, movements have proven a bit reticent, the highest closing price being 13.75p.  From our perspective, missing target by just 0.05p is actually a big deal, a suggestion the market isn’t yet ready to allow the share price to fly solo. However, intraday traffic (not the closing price) allowed for the share price to exceed our 13.8p twice in the last week, so perhaps there is room for optimism.

It’s certainly now the case where movement above 14.8p shall be seen as triggering travel to an initial 15.8p with our secondary, if beaten, at 19.5p. These are fairly significant ambitions, launching the share price into a zone where a future 33p shall be viewed as exerting a distant attraction.

Of course, there is always a downside scenario. A fall below 11.5p would increase the risk of a retreat towards an initial target at 8p. Should that level fail to hold, our secondary support lies at around 5.7p, where we would expect a more substantial “bouncy bottom” to emerge.

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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
10:35:29PM BRENT 7875.7
10:41:05PM GOLD 4246.21 4064 3974 3876 4088 4268 4288 4364 4218 Success
11:02:11PM FTSE 10896.2 ‘cess
11:04:23PM STOX50 6492.6
11:07:43PM GERMANY 26229.2 26122 25992 25842 26261 26442 26465 27086 26160
11:17:34PM US500 7731.7 ‘cess
11:20:41PM DOW 54424.3 ‘cess
11:29:40PM NASDAQ 29478.5 ‘cess
11:34:33PM JAPAN 65891

 

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:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 51.9 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 51.9 Day Low: 39

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Helios Towers Plc (LSE:HTWS) was trading around 197.90 at the time of writing.

#FTSE #DOW We’ve had a couple of enquiries, asking our opinion of Helios share price. A constituent of the FTSE 250, the company are active in the Middle East and Africa, throwing up telecommunication towers all over the place. According to Wikipedia, they own and maintain over 10,500 towers, keeping the cellular market alive across the continent. If only we had something similar here in Argyll, an area of Scotland where cellular reception is kindly described as “spotty”. For instance, we now receive a reliable signal in our house, a vast improvement over the situation where we’d to go to the top of the garden to get a signal. But 3Mobile turned things on their head, if we continue up the cliff and into the forest, the cellular signal matches the coverage map from 3Mobile. Somehow or other, the mobile signal only covers about 100 metres inland from the shore line, then becomes unreliable. The crazy thing, we can actually see the tower from the hill behind the house but the cellular company has chosen to point their antenna fairly low down.

Perhaps they have to pay a “rent” to provide better coverage?

It certainly can be an irritation, if having a gossip with a friend while out with the dog, as there are numerous stretches where a conversation will suddenly go dead. Thankfully, it’s easy to warn the other person in advance, thus halting the amusing game of manners, trying to call each other back at the same time, getting connected and then cut off again. In virtually all areas of life, Argyll can be quite a bit behind the rest of the world. Though we have moved from Black & White TV to colour TV and also boast Hot & Cold running water! And about 10 years ago, the main road into the Cowal Peninsula was upgraded from an exciting single track to twin lanes,  making the drive less challenging. It’s also worth mentioning any dream of there being a motorway anywhere in Argyll would be an empty hope. Despite Argyll hosting part of the A82, the busiest road in the West, very little is judged to deserve dual carriageway upgrades.

Obviously, it doesn’t take much to trigger a rant about Argyll. At first glance, Helios Towers Plc seemed incapable of igniting a response, then we remembered Argyll’s little foible with cellular communications…

However, Helios are operating in an area of the world where Heat, Terrain, Wildlife, the People, are unlikely to be a problem, so doubtless they avoid all the usual difficulties Argyll faces.

As the chart below shows, the Green line represents the previous “All Time High” closing price at 205p. In May of this year, the market clearly thought the 205p risked becoming an issue, opting to manipulate (Gap) the share price over this little Red Circled obstacle. When we say Closing Prices are a big signal, this was one of these occasions where we’ve little choice but to judge the signal as seriously important for the longer term.

Our suspicion now is next time Helios share price closes a session above 205p, a journey to an initial 234p should commence with our longer term secondary, if exceeded, working out at a future impressive 293p. This is obviously a fairly significant change in the share price valuation, making us suspect the company perhaps have some good news tucked up their sleeves, awaiting release. Regardless, keeping an eye on Helios would certainly make some sense in the days ahead.

If trouble is planned,  their share price needs close below 190p to potentially spoil the aforementioned targets and instead, kick off a cycle downhill to an initial 166p with our secondary, if broken, at 139p. At present, there’s nothing suggesting this should become an issue, though our software demands we mention it.

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:40:30PM BRENT 7795 Success
11:43:31PM GOLD 4084.93 Success
11:48:06PM FTSE 10908.5 10868 10853 10828 10891 10931 10953 10993 10892 ‘cess
11:51:01PM STOX50 6522.6 Success
11:54:10PM GERMANY 26402 Success
11:56:26PM US500 7751.3
11:01:38PM DOW 54236.2 53139 52675 52134 53378 54286 54500 55215 54056 Success
11:05:24PM NASDAQ 29692.2 ‘cess
11:10:05PM JAPAN 65601

 

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:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 152.9 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 154.85 Day Low: 151.65

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1584.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1610 Day Low: 1562.8

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 716 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 726 Day Low: 705.6

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1529.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1547.2 Day Low: 1517.2

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LSE:SPX Spirax. Close Mid-Price: 7290 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 7300 Day Low: 7135

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2248 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2262 Day Low: 2208

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 26 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 26.4 Day Low: 25.4

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