Author: T&T Staff

#Brent #Dax A feature of the enhanced cost of fuel is probably worth considering. The UK Government are pocketing a nice little windfall, their VAT take increased by 50% due to the Middle East mess. While they were previously generating around 20p per litre (on top of their 80p fuel duty tax, they are now generating 30p a litre and not required to do anything for it, other than ensure the war continues. It’s not in the UK Government nor European politicians best financial interests for prices to rapidly decline, any announcements of reopening North Sea fields or reopening refineries viewed as less than ideal. After all, if they can keep the hardship going for a few months, maybe folk will get used to it and politicians will be able to justify voting themselves another wage increase, due to the high cost of living they’ve created.

Over the weekend, considerable effort was made to blame the US President for the breakdown in peace talks, the media leading with “Trump Stops his Peace Envoys from going to Pakistan for Talks!”  Somehow or other, the media failed to mention the Iranian “peace diplomats” had already left Pakistan, some reports saying their lead negotiator had resigned. It made absolutely no sense for a US delegation to arrive in Pakistan with no-one to negotiate with. Quite why the media work so hard to blame President Trump for everything is beyond comprehension but doubtless goes some way in explaining why he’s quite a popular shooting target.

Meanwhile, in more important news, our little red tractor has disgraced itself repeatedly. The drive mechanism for the cutting deck failed repeatedly on Saturday, a strip of grass 2 metres long and 1.2 metres wide successfully cut before everything stopped turning. The tractor essentially dangles a twin bladed Chinook helicopter underneath it, generally doing a pretty good job on the lawn. Unfortunately (doubtless due to my work last year) the blades seem determined to pick a fight with each other, causing the machine to come to a noisy sudden stop. Monday shall see the deck removed and given a firm talking too, while I try and ensure 90 degree separation between the blades at all times. Usually a few elaborate theories spawn before such a job but this time, I’ve got nothing other than knowing it shouldn’t happen. Well, okay, there might be a 45 pence part which I might not have fitted, something called a “Woodruff Key”. Should this prove to be the case, I shall never talk of this incident again. It’s a bit like forgetting to fit the wheel nuts, after fixing a puncture, an incident which requires a special type of idiot…

Back in the land of things which can sometimes make sense, the share price for Lloyds has been doing something really surprising.

Once upon a time, Lloyds Bank share price was over 10 quid. In fact, back in May 1999, ‘just’ 27 years ago, it was around 1070p. Paying any attention to a trend spawned from this sort of nonsense would be utterly ridiculous, aside for something which is bugging us. Zooming in on price movements for Lloyds this year reveals something which we did not anticipate.

In our opinion, there should NOT be a valid downtrend since 1999 but in the case of Lloyds, when we opt to view closing prices this year, they intersect rather neatly with the Dark Blue line dating back to May 1999. While this may be a silly co-incidence, we’re nervous about making such a finite statement as it’s extremely rare for the market to endure “co-incidence”, quite the opposite. From our perspective, it creates a fascinating situation where we’re supposed to apply future strengths from a share price which was once over 10 quid. The implication is for a growth scenario which shall exhibit strength, a bit like the methods currently in use by politicians to steal from the public. After all, they could reduce VAT to alleviate costs to motorists, yet choose to ignore such an option, relying on “the media” forgetting the current 20% rate of VAT was a temporary increase during the banking bailout after 2009. Prior to this, it was 17.5%.. For the Government to alter the VAT rate on fuel to levels which would maintain their levels of usury, VAT on Petrol & Diesel should be reduced to 11% or so.

If we opt to muck around with a trend which “perhaps” commenced in May 1999, things certainly get interesting with various degrees of acceleration. Currently, above 106p should next trigger movement to an initial 111 with our secondary, if beaten, at 123p, While we anticipate some hesitation at this secondary level, the share price should move solidly into a Big Picture cycle, where a future third level target of 153p awaits. And for those with infinite patience, a long term 310p should be exerting an attractive influence. How hard can it be?

In the event things intend go wrong, below 85p would be a bad thing, allowing for reversal to an initial 72p and if this level breaks, our secondary – and potential bottom – calculates down at 60p.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
1:50:17AM	BRENT	9964.8	9594	9465	9248	9807	10116	10265	10440	9947
6:59:46PM	GOLD	4708.8
7:06:04PM	FTSE	10386
10:42:40PM	STOX50	5905.9
11:04:14PM	GERMANY	24258	23838	23715	23354	24158	24232	24429	24626	24090
11:27:53PM	US500	7141.9
11:29:55PM	DOW	49107.4
11:32:19PM	NASDAQ	27232.7
11:34:39PM	JAPAN	59792

 

24/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10379 points. Change of -0.75%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,757,896,465 a change of -3.26%

23/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10457 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,985,316,582 a change of -3.94%

22/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10476 points. Change of -0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,271,923,237 a change of 4.79%

21/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10498 points. Change of -1.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,939,310,505 a change of -19.68%

20/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of -0.54%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,639,261,853 a change of -7.81%

17/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10667 points. Change of 0.74%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,370,886,318 a change of 52.53%

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

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:BT.A British Telecom. Close Mid-Price: 223 Percentage Change: + 1.25% Day High: 225.1 Day Low: 219.75

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LSE:CAR Carclo Close Mid-Price: 40.7 Percentage Change: -3.10% Day High: 42.9 Day Low: 39

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LSE:FOXT Foxtons. Close Mid-Price: 43.15 Percentage Change: + 3.85% Day High: 43.65 Day Low: 41.3

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 154.8 Percentage Change: + 8.56% Day High: 166.5 Day Low: 140

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 17.25 Percentage Change: + 8.49% Day High: 17.5 Day Low: 16.1

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A day which was supposed to be spent “going fishing” turned into one of these “I went into the kitchen for X, came across Y and was distracted, finally going somewhere else for Z. And completely forgot X” days. Needless to say, we were not even going to get to the point where fishing rods were attached to the car. But when the pair of us went into the kitchen to make a couple of flasks of coffee, my chum asked if I’d a sparkplug suitable for his garden lawnmower. So while the coffee machine was slaving away, we went out to the workshop to dig out a plug and the chainsaws caught his eye.

Apparently his neighbours have agreed the monster hedge between their properties can come down and they’ll go 50:50 on a new fence. But no-one approves the quotes from contractors, feeling between 5 and 7 thousand pounds to be a bit of a rip off. When my chum saw my chainsaws, he suddenly had a “good idea”, asking if he could borrow a 26 inch machine to tackle his hedge. Of course, I was happy to oblige, though suggested a quick lesson on how to tackle a hedge would be considerably beneficial. The problem using a chainsaw to tackle a bush comes from the sheer volume of vegetation sucked back into the saw. The trick is quite simple, using the top side of the saw blade for the cutting stroke, this ensuring vegetation was flung away from the machine.

I suggested we go up to our log cutting area for a demonstration as we’ve a holly bush which must be terminated this year as it has ideas above its station. Leaving the coffee machine to finish, we headed up to the cutting area, started the machine, and I demonstrated the easiest way to remove bushes, even slashing into a rhododendron bush as a secondary example of this supposedly safe cutting technique. When this routine was finished, my chum asked how long a tree had been in the stream! A large chunk of what looked like Beech visually was blocking the stream, though water was somehow making itself under the tree without any impromptu swimming pools being formed. This lump of tree had silently been swept over the waterfall, almost certainly in a position to block the stream during the next confluence of water, due to heavy weather. It made sense for us to attack this tree trunk, even fetching a 4 ton winch to drag the thing up the bank.

At some point, the coffee was remembered, so we made ourselves comfortable while enjoying the view, a distant military ship of some sort doing impressive patrol manoeuvres in the sea, fairly close to the secret nuclear submarine base. The presence of a couple of powerful tug boats also brought the suggestion the naval destroyer was working in concert with a submerged vessel. We suspect someone has decreed these big commercial tugs MUST be available in case the “pride of Britain’s  Fleet” breaks down. It was just another Thursday, though one with extraordinary good weather.

Fishing was completely forgotten and it was all because my friend asked for a spark plug, creating a new high in the usual game of “I went into the kitchen and…” But we did make plans to do fishing things next week, weather allowing.

As for the FTSE, above 10524 should trigger movement to an initial 10583 with our secondary, if beaten, at 10657 points. This secondary, matching market highs since the start of April,  is almost certain to provoke market hesitation. It looks like the FTSE shall need above 10,690 points to provoke the upward cycle which is apparently coming.

If things intend go wrong for the FTSE, below 10358 risks triggering reversal down to an initial 10196 with our secondary, if broken, down at 10034 along with the potential for a rebound.

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
11:28:03PM	BRENT	10045.3	9583	9442	9207	9852	10140	10267	10739	9800	Success
11:31:02PM	GOLD	4691.35	4665	4655	4616	4710	4742	4769	4804	4716	Success
11:35:46PM	FTSE	10379	10341	10322	10272	10400	10471	10516	10575	10431	Success
11:38:31PM	STOX50	5852.9	5825	5733	5619	5867	5911	5953	6007	5871	‘cess
11:40:37PM	GERMANY	24087	23838	23705	23520	24000	24260	24363	24538	25083
11:46:56PM	US500	7117.3	7058	7022	6980	7096	7148	7196	7234	7048	Shambles
11:52:19PM	DOW	49215.9	48953	48800	48451	49240	49523	50098	50769	49315
11:44:27PM	NASDAQ	26951.5	26533	26490	26321	26713	26997	27153	27358	26856	Shambles
11:47:29PM	JAPAN	59333	58282	58220	57560	58890	59538	60199	60474	59178	Success

 

23/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10457 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,985,316,582 a change of -3.94%

22/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10476 points. Change of -0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,271,923,237 a change of 4.79%

21/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10498 points. Change of -1.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,939,310,505 a change of -19.68%

20/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of -0.54%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,639,261,853 a change of -7.81%

17/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10667 points. Change of 0.74%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,370,886,318 a change of 52.53%

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

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:EMG MAN Close Mid-Price: 245.6 Percentage Change: -7.32% Day High: 266.4 Day Low: 240.2

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LSE:FOXT Foxtons Close Mid-Price: 41.55 Percentage Change: -5.57% Day High: 43.8 Day Low: 41.55

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LSE:GENL Genel Close Mid-Price: 50.5 Percentage Change: -0.98% Day High: 52.2 Day Low: 50.2

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 49.75 Percentage Change: -20.53% Day High: 64.5 Day Low: 42

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#Gold #DAX BP has finally achieved the targets we presented a month ago, managing to close above our 569p secondary target on several occasions. Perhaps more impressively, the share also tackled our third level target of 606p, exceeding that target slightly before closing the day at a shoulder disconnecting 605.3p. This sort of “pat on the back” is always appreciated as it confirms we’ve been following the correct trend from which to base our calculations!

Despite all this euphoria, there’s a bit of a worry becoming evident. The Blue downtrend on the chart below, a crayon mark which dates back to 2018, has been pierced 3 times during the last month. Obviously, this must be an effect of the ‘war on shipping’ currently ongoing and a quite strange economic situation which has been created. Usually, prices head upward due to Demand, sheer buying pressure creating inflationary circumstances. Now, a quite different situation exists as Demand has remained fairly steady, though in a state of constant decline due to the attempted shift to electric power. But Supply has faltered, oil refineries in Europe failing to be drip-fed the raw product needed to keep them ticking over. When, in the instance of the UK, this is blended with a government being wilfully blind to the UK’s assets in the North Sea and happy to see refineries close in their race to commit national economic suicide, events in the Middle East couldn’t have happened at a less inconvenient time.

The UK Prime Minister is doubtless drowning in mixed emotions, the shambles of Epstein/Mandelson keeping the shambles of Economic Mismanagement off the front pages. Hopefully, this only remains the case for a fairly short term as the North Sea remains able to deliver. Additionally, the Grangemouth Refinery in Scotland could be recommissioned, resuming its position as the major producer of Jet Fuel (essentially paraffin) and keeping aircraft flying. For now, we’re in a situation where Net Zero has turned into Zero Net, absolutely no safety net while the clowns in government try a high wire act with no safety net. At least during Covid19, they had the excuse they didn’t know what they were doing but in the current position, they knew exactly what they were doing when destroying the UK’s oil industry.

It may be suspected we’re quite irritated at this mess.

The three dips below the Blue downtrend bother us, perhaps early warning the price of BP is about to react to the current shambolic market conditions. It’s an awkward situation and becoming harder to resolve quickly, due to national governments already using their “strategic reserves” to create a comfort zone to disguise the lack of supply. But there’s obviously a point when this situation will dissolve, especially in the UK where it became part of the master plan to allow fuel stocks in petrol stations to be regarded as part of the strategic reserve. Some petrol stations, blessed with truly massive underground tanks, could easily hold over 1/4 million litres and a value of stock beyond the ability of a normal retailer to fund. But instead, an oil company would choose to “bunker” a certain amount of fuel, a reserve the retailer hadn’t paid for and only chargeable once the site started to draw on it. In this way, inconveniences like “tanker driver strikes” didn’t make all petrol stations run out of fuel, those blessed with super large storage able to keep functioning as they’d generally sufficient fuel to keep operating for a few weeks. Personally, when changing fuel tanks at one of our own petrol stations 25 years ago, the size of the new tanks were a complete shock, a tanker of fuel generally holding 34,000 litres and our new diesel tank able to accommodate 3 tanker loads. And the more popular petrol tanks were similarly proportioned.

With the country now running in a mode opposite to Malthus’s Supply & Demand laws, things risk becoming a bit strange for BP’s share price.  If the price of fuel is forced to increase, the reason will be an attempt to maintain income levels. But in a normal market environment, price increases are an attempt to maximise income levels exponentially. This should place some interesting pressures on Crude prices as we enter a strange new land.

Currently for BP share price, below 531p shall be taken as a trigger capable of provoking reversal to an initial 500p with our secondary, if broken, at 459p and perhaps a bottom capable of provoking a bounce.

But if things turn sunny in the Straits of Hormuz, the share need only exceed 586p to tick the first box which should trigger a surprise cycle, one which has an initial calculation of 652p and our secondary, if beaten, at 721p.

Our suspicion is BP’s share price risks some reversals.

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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
11:26:21PM	BRENT	9572.3									‘cess
11:31:00PM	GOLD	4727.13	4711	4693	4667	4747	4749	4779	4816	4722
11:33:09PM	FTSE	10455.6
11:32:30PM	STOX50	5884.4
11:37:24PM	GERMANY	24124	23884	23809	23480	24192	24393	24579	24810	24194
11:47:32PM	US500	7115.8
11:51:53PM	DOW	49252.1
11:57:06PM	NASDAQ	26890									‘cess
12:00:23AM	JAPAN	59879

 

22/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10476 points. Change of -0.21%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,271,923,237 a change of 4.79%

21/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10498 points. Change of -1.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,939,310,505 a change of -19.68%

20/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of -0.54%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,639,261,853 a change of -7.81%

17/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10667 points. Change of 0.74%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,370,886,318 a change of 52.53%

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

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:BT.A British Telecom Close Mid-Price: 216.4 Percentage Change: -1.64% Day High: 221.75 Day Low: 216.15

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LSE:GENL Genel Close Mid-Price: 51 Percentage Change: -1.16% Day High: 52.2 Day Low: 50.5

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1539 Percentage Change: + 0.29% Day High: 1548 Day Low: 1523.5

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 62.6 Percentage Change: -0.63% Day High: 72.8 Day Low: 59.3

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 4960 Percentage Change: + 1.39% Day High: 5160 Day Low: 4820

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc Close Mid-Price: 217.7 Percentage Change: -0.18% Day High: 223.2 Day Low: 214.1

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments Close Mid-Price: 2858 Percentage Change: -1.45% Day High: 3038 Day Low: 2858

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital Close Mid-Price: 41 Percentage Change: -3.07% Day High: 43.4 Day Low: 40.35

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#BrentCrude #Nasdaq It’s a little fascinating how International Workplace Group continue to reframe their position, facilitating to a market which must feel like herding cats. When the shambles of the Covid19 era hit, they were certainly placed to ensure business’s kept operating, despite the constraints from governments, always keen to restrain trade internationally. IWG celebrated the opportunity by declaring bankruptcy across 97 different entities. But IWG’s experience and reach certainly created a situation where folk could “talk” internationally with the most up to date methods of conferencing, provided seamlessly. But a newer challenge has emerged, one framed by harsh economics.

The price of fuel is apparently seriously influenced decisions on “work from home” as the cost of commuting leapt, once supply constraints affected the price of oil, substantially increasing the daily cost of commuting from the mess of Bedford to London or less likely, travelling from Esher to London. It exhausts our experience, discussing beyond these areas. But memories of Esher tend imply folk from the hamlet rarely trouble themselves by visiting the city. A chum bought a business and land in Kingston Upon Thames, his single visit to the city using his boat, which really doesn’t count as commuting. But it has become clear many folk are avoiding the traumatic cost of fuel currently and we question why the UK Government has not followed many other countries by making an effort to lower the burden. When paying £1.86 per litre, the public are exposed to VAT of 37p and DUTY around 90p, it remaining the case the government still accounts for the bulk of the cost of fuel.

But once again, commercial property shall face the reality of empty offices, again creating demand for solutions for meetings and discussions from multiple remote locations. The ongoing heavy boulder, rolling over commercial property leases must be worth some long term reflection.  After all, we shall inevitably face the day when we attend meetings wearing 3d headsets, everyone with perfect bodies and the location being a pretty outdoor cafe in Brussels… All kidding aside, this would certainly beat a meeting anywhere on Canary Wharf, the second portal of hell.

We’ve been taking a hard look at IWG share price, especially due to their failure to reach our 252p target (slightly) with a rise failing at 250p. From our perspective, this was a big deal as we couldn’t justify calibration for the error but instead, a suspicion of weakness in the share. Should this indeed be the case, below 174 presently suggests the risk of weakness to an initial 162p with our secondary, if broken, calculating at an eventual 132p which should provide a bounce point.

However, if IWG intends catch a break, above just 202p should next prove important, allowing for movement to an initial 222p with our secondary, if bettered, at a pretty confident sounding 262p which dumps the share price in a land, where a decent future should become logical. Of course, as we’ve just over a week from the Miami Grand Prix circus commencing, perhaps our optimism is being inflated faster than Red Bulls attempts of cheating aerodynamic regulations.

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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
9:11:07PM	BRENT	9639.1	8990	8731	8414	9130	9682	9714	10192	9215
10:28:44PM	GOLD	4692.93									‘cess
10:32:16PM	FTSE	10464									Success
10:49:41PM	STOX50	5913.3									Success
10:52:40PM	GERMANY	24159.9									‘cess
10:54:41PM	US500	7086.2									Shambles
11:01:45PM	DOW	49286.6									‘cess
11:04:47PM	NASDAQ	26586.7	26400	26356	26228	26576	26740	26820	26960	26622	Shambles

 

21/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10498 points. Change of -1.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,939,310,505 a change of -19.68%

20/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of -0.54%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,639,261,853 a change of -7.81%

17/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10667 points. Change of 0.74%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,370,886,318 a change of 52.53%

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

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:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY Close Mid-Price: 826.5 Percentage Change: -0.60% Day High: 839 Day Low: 825

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc. Close Mid-Price: 218.1 Percentage Change: + 4.76% Day High: 222 Day Low: 206.8

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 42.3 Percentage Change: + 7.09% Day High: 42.3 Day Low: 39

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#Gold #Nasdaq Gossiping to one of the folk on my usual dog walk circuit, I related the story of becoming utterly fed up with Scotlands weather. Instead of becoming defensive, she agreed and pointed out we’ve “enjoyed” around 7 months of rain here in Argyll. Obviously, it usually does not rain all day, only when you need to step outside to do something. It’s one thing being caught in a downpour when walking the animals, quite another when you look out the window and realise squeezing into a wet suit would make some sense. And of course, Golden Retrievers will usually refuse to go out in the rain, despite their propensity to get wet at every other opportunity. One of my favourite “countryside” jokes is to point out it always rains the day after the grass has been cut. Thus, when using my newly serviced Strimmer to butcher the lawn edges, it was not a surprise to feel rain on my face when the job was finished.

It’s possible Scotland was described quite nicely with that dreadful pop dirge; “Love is all Around”, number one in the mid-1990’s chart for 4 painful months. The Scottish band name was imaginative; “Wet Wet Wet“. It transpires the only way to get revenge on our Argyll climate is to write about it, honestly and often. If only the Scottish government would do more to “sell our mountains”, not for tourism but to get the sodding things moved somewhere else 

Since August 2025, Convatec share price has behaved as if it were trapped in Scottish frame of mind, realistically doing very little other than bob up and down. An email asked that we update our thoughts on the subject and it’s slightly interesting to note this years price shuffles have revealed the market appears to be paying attention to Red on the chart. On April 8th, the share price was manipulated (“gapped”) above this Red trend, sending a neat little message some share price recovery should be expected.

This has created a fairly confident calculation share price movement next above 245p should trigger price movement to an initial 254p with our secondary, if bettered, at a longer term 284p. This longer term secondary is visually problematic, suggesting some hesitation while the share price matched the high of May 2025 and a bunch of folk respond by creating selling pressure, while they delight in retrieving their funds from a year long vacation. However, we should acknowledge share price closure above 284p should reveal a long term 322p exhibiting itself as an attractive ambition.

Convatec share price needs below 224p to ring alarm bells, providing the threat of reversal to an initial 200p with our secondary, if broken, at 180p and hopefully a bounce.

But for now, in direct contradiction to our thoughts on Scotland’s weather, we’re pretty optimistic on this share price.

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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
11:31:55PM	BRENT	8945.1
11:34:21PM	GOLD	4823.92	4737	4691	4625	4794	4892	5052	5369	4852
11:46:04PM	FTSE	10618.8
10:53:57PM	STOX50	5996.5
10:57:43PM	GERMANY	24502.3
11:00:23PM	US500	7118.9
11:25:02PM	DOW	49515.6
11:37:12PM	NASDAQ	26630.9	26413	26385	26290	26551	26670	26746	26868	26542
11:43:24PM	JAPAN	59275

 

20/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of -0.54%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,639,261,853 a change of -7.81%

17/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10667 points. Change of 0.74%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,370,886,318 a change of 52.53%

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%

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:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 15.5 Percentage Change: + 1.64% Day High: 16.55 Day Low: 15.5

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#Brent #Germany Without any surprise, the FTSE managed waste everyone’s time on Friday, frittering around while rain fell here in Argyll in record quantities, while other world markets were experiencing a 2% day of gains.. Again. Cutting a long story short, instead of vanishing down a YouTube rabbithole on Friday afternoon, looking at properties in Norfolk consumed a large part of the day. And a big question arose! How the hell can people in England afford to buy houses? The entire property game still looks like a massive pyramid scheme, one which is surely going to bite back harder than the mortgage related banking shambles of 2009. An industry which can only survive if prices continuing going up isn’t an industry but instead, a collective delusion. My wife acidly points out I shall forget my negative weather comments as we’re about to experience Argyll’s two “safe” summer months, May and June.

The FTSE’s moribund behaviour is something we hope shall prove to be a fairly short term affliction, hopefully cured once navigation resumes in the Straits of Hormuz. We glanced at shipping movements tonight, noting a Saudi cruise ship was cheerfully carrying its passengers through the troubled zone, presumably without hindrance on what appears to be a regular three day “jolly” from Jeddah. Equally, plenty of aircraft were flying over Israel though airspace above Iran remained as absent as the UK Prime Ministers apparent ethical standards.

However, there remains optimism for some decent FTSE acceleration, such an event obviously holding a high probability of a further kick up Barclays memory from 2009,  To be fair, the share price is already cruising in an area where our rule of thumb deems a distant 737p as exerting a future influence, though goodness knows how long it would take. Unfortunately, the share price only needs close below 432p for us to glare at the tea leaves and revisit the numbers for the future.

At present, above 456p is supposed to trigger gains in the direction of an initial 468p with our secondary, if bettered, at 506p and the possibility of the share price entering the land of Big Picture miracles. While achieving 506p shall challenge the downtrend since 2007 and the years of “political integrity” from PM’s Blair & Brown (aka sarcasm), this is liable to become a truly important era for the retail bank share price as while it’s possible to highlight various price levels as potential problems on the way up, the strength of the share price when this Blue downtrend commenced is liable to make a future 737 a very viable ambition. Hopefully a future mortgage crisis fails to appear at such a level as it would provide Barclays share price with the most poisonous “double top” since “Good Old Yellow Pages” share price pretended a fake recovery…

Should things intend go wrong for Barclays – or at least enact a slow down – below 432p would certainly present a problem, opening up the concept of reversal to an initial 408 with our secondary, if broken, at 353p and the potential for a bounce. At present, we’re more focussed on happier days ahead.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
9:26:25PM	BRENT	8706.4	8475	8098.5	7454	8780	9140	9577	10033	9027
9:30:32PM	GOLD	4846.28
11:20:42PM	FTSE	10693.4
10:24:20PM	STOX50	6038.5
11:06:58PM	GERMANY	24370	24252	24005	23741	24390	24648	24721	24910	24575
11:13:15PM	US500	7073.7
11:16:01PM	DOW	49003.5
11:18:09PM	NASDAQ	26464
10:56:25PM	JAPAN	58899

 

17/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10667 points. Change of 0.74%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,370,886,318 a change of 52.53%

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%

9/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10603 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,549,262,704 a change of -39.09%

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:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 52.1 Percentage Change: -11.09% Day High: 72 Day Low: 48.5

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LSE:ITM ITM Power. Close Mid-Price: 131.5 Percentage Change: + 40.12% Day High: 144.1 Day Low: 104

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 4969 Percentage Change: + 4.50% Day High: 5038 Day Low: 4794

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 368.7 Percentage Change: + 2.33% Day High: 372.9 Day Low: 354.1

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 40.4 Percentage Change: + 4.26% Day High: 41.8 Day Low: 38.65

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1444 Percentage Change: + 0.63% Day High: 1453.5 Day Low: 1434.5

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#FTSE #Brent In an ideal world, the S&P 500 is about to produce a “teachable” moment, the index finally closing above the 7,000 point level for the first time ever. Headline writers are waxing lyrical about such an event but we’re neither surprised nor impressed. From our perspective,  the 7,000 level should only be a footnote in S&P movements as the current cycle indicates growth above 7,052 should next trigger movement to an initial 7,085 points. The really impressive level is the potential “top” of this cycle, calculating at 7,450 points.

This secondary ambition is liable to be a big deal, representing a price level at which we anticipate some volatility. But there is an important caveat with the S&P. If the market starts “gapping” the index up, should our initial 7,085 be exceeded, it creates a situation where the goblins who control the market probably have a different, higher, target level in mind. Time will tell.

As for The FTSE, the index is driving us a little bonkers. If it would only move in accordance with “our rules”, we’d be confident proposing happy days are indeed ahead. Whereas Germany which has mucked around since the start of this year just ticked a pretty confident box which points at a future 25,750 on the DAX, a tidy 1,500 points above current levels. But the FTSE feels stalled, shuffling around like a gender confused person facing a choice of toilet doors. The value of the index has exceeded the point of trend break on the Red trend, it has even regained the Red trend, conventional logic screaming the UK index is primed for substantial movement. Instead, we are being treated to daily shuffles incapable of suggesting direction.

Currently, above 10,687 points should prove important, potentially triggering a rise to an initial tame 10,792 points but our “longer term” secondary, if exceeded, calculates at 11,183 points. While journalists shall doubtless deem the 11,000 level as important, the FTSE is liable to continue blundering upwards with a third level target working out at a future 11,447 points. Perhaps the UK Government shall do the decent thing and resign, once again allowing optimism to return. Reports the UK has been buying oil from Norway were a shock, our countries North Sea reserves far greater than Norway’s. The blind adherence to something called Net Zero is actively damaging our economy, just for imaginary political point scoring. In other news, apparently the UK Prime Minister had no idea his proposed American Ambassador has failed “vetting”, a detail which must surely call into question his management style by not monitoring the appointment of the UK’s most important diplomatic position.

Our alternate scenario suggests aggressive eyebrow action, if the FTSE manages below  10,450 points as weakness toward 9.983 points looks possible with our secondary, if broken, at 9,764 points. For now, we’re inclined to adhere to an optimistic outlook.

Have a good weekend, hopefully with a little less rain than we’re getting here in Argyll.

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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
10:27:46PM	BRENT	9420.7	9010	8646		9319	9627	9813		9426	Success
10:29:40PM	GOLD	4788.59	4772	4750		4814	4840	4863		4810	Shambles
10:31:29PM	FTSE	10582.4	10542	10505		10570	10647	10670		10565
10:34:24PM	STOX50	5913.9	5899	5893		5935	5971	5999		5946
10:38:26PM	GERMANY	24107.5	24055	24025		24122	24258	24286		24090
10:45:33PM	US500	7040.4	7008	7000		7037	7051	7069		7017
10:47:46PM	DOW	48628	48278	48116		48480	48671	48752		48463
10:49:32PM	NASDAQ	26299.5	26121	26035		26286	26400	26423		26266
10:53:24PM	JAPAN	59265	58821	58598		59153	59675	59900		59304	Success

 

16/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10589 points. Change of 0.28%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,143,664,232 a change of -12.74%

15/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10559 points. Change of -0.47%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,040,462,072 a change of 0%

14/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10609 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 0 a change of -100%

13/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10582 points. Change of -0.17%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,248,149,769 a change of -33.03%

10/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10600 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 9,329,891,860 a change of 42.46%

9/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10603 points. Change of -0.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,549,262,704 a change of -39.09%

8/04/2026 FTSE Closed at 10608 points. Change of -100%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,752,106,847 a change of 0%

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:ITM ITM Power Close Mid-Price: 93.85 Percentage Change: -1.78% Day High: 98.8 Day Low: 93.85

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 4755 Percentage Change: + 8.98% Day High: 4958 Day Low: 4356

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2812 Percentage Change: + 2.48% Day High: 2826 Day Low: 2750

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 38.75 Percentage Change: + 0.26% Day High: 40 Day Low: 37.4

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1435 Percentage Change: + 1.09% Day High: 1445.5 Day Low: 1425.5

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