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#Gold #SP500 We simply will not fly Ryanair or EasyJet for fairly straightforward reasons. The budget airlines, with their “Pile ’em high, sell ’em Cheap” attitude have made flying an often vile experience. The worry is, we are utterly confident they cut corners at every legal opportunity, not least being the fact their cabin crew are not paid unless the aircraft is moving. This, obviously, creates a situation where the cabin staff are unlikely to note sobriety problems, unruly passengers now a frequent story on budget flights. Equally, aboard an aircraft sliding along the runway when landing at Bristol a few years ago, it was evident the pressure to get to the destination had encouraged the flight crew to land in dreadful conditions on an unsafe and poorly maintained airport runway. The entire industry (in the UK) has moved from “Best Practice” to “Cheapest Legal Practice”, making it difficult to summon any enthusiasm for their share prices. To be concise, this writer has not flown since the Easyjet incident.

However…

It seems the market may not agree with our gut reaction to Easyjet and their share price performance, though it may be more to do with the current 4.7Bn pound takeover bid, rather than the thickness of their toilet paper.

Above 542p should now trigger movement to an initial 571p with our longer term secondary, if exceeded, working out at 652p. This secondary is important with closure around such a level creating an “official higher high”, bettering the glass ceiling since 2022 and serving optimism for the market place. The funny thing, in a takeover situation, third level targets often appear which should be of benefit for shareholders. Nowadays, this is never our expectation and perhaps just above 652p shall be a reasonable hope for the future.

For things to go as wrong as a Bristol Airport landing, the share price needs dip below 478p as this risks triggering reversal to an eventual 375p.

On the bright side, we’re slowly edging up to the Austrian Grand Prix, usually one of the better fixtures with some seriously impressive camera angles. Hopefully the race proves more enjoyable than tonight’s Scotland/Brazil footie match, the South American side letting the visually terrified Scottish team off lightly. Apparently, this was the 5th or 6th time Scotland has faced Brazil, historically their best result being a draw, when both sides presumably got bored and walked off to watch the grass growing.

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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
10:19:49PM	BRENT	7336									Success
10:26:55PM	GOLD	4001.19	3960	3919	3764	4042	4225	4332	4456	4048
11:37:43PM	FTSE	10456
11:40:21PM	STOX50	6231.9
11:45:18PM	GERMANY	24757.4
11:48:10PM	US500	7410.7	7336	7327	7293	7393	7428	7468	7512	7382	Shambles
11:56:12PM	DOW	51918.5									‘cess
11:42:21PM	NASDAQ	29809.4									‘cess
11:50:59PM	JAPAN	71131									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.

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

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LSE:AZN Astrazeneca. Close Mid-Price: 13910 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 480.05 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EZJ EasyJet. Close Mid-Price: 539.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2773 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HIK Hikma. Close Mid-Price: 1527 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 480.9 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#FTSE #Japan The bewildering range of specialist lending organisations has been rather justified by the experiences a friend is going through, discovering the mortgage jungle is located in the middle of a swamp of petty rules and paperwork. Describing the current maze of ridiculousness as a nightmare would perhaps be an understatement. All she wanted to do was to buy another house and transfer her existing city property into a letting concern. This, unfortunately, created a considerable opportunity for the manufacturers of hoops for her to jump through. The time being taken by paperwork addicted mortgage entities makes it look like months will pass before the deal can be closed, though thankfully she’s got an understanding seller.

We’re obviously not suggesting OSB Group have anything to do with our chums situation, but can certainly understand how the company have managed to accumulate a number of specialist financial services businesses. From what we’re hearing, it is easy to suspect the industry is rather over-regulated.

While we wait for the Scottish football teams ritual slaughter at the hands of Brazil, it’s certainly looking worth taking a hard look at OSB Group as their share price looks poised for some positive action.

Movement next above just 532p has the potential to make things interesting, giving the potential of a lift to an initial 552p with our secondary, if exceeded, calculating at a future 576p. This secondary is a fairly big deal, giving the share price the potential of closing above the immediate Blue downtrend, thus dumping the price into a zone where a long term third level of 653p calculates as viable.

On the other hand, our negative scenario is pretty vile, suggesting below 493p threatens a trip to an initial 464p with our secondary, if broken, at 403p and perhaps a decent rebound. While the share is currently looking visually confused, on balance we’re leaning toward optimism for the future.

Then again, we’re optimistic our chum shall manoeuvre through the mortgage battlefield and complete her ambition to ditch the city and move to the country.

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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
9:01:09PM	BRENT	7680
9:18:30PM	GOLD	4111.07									‘cess
9:20:31PM	FTSE	10426	10320	10259	10188	10406	10472	10506	10568	10428	Shambles
10:01:58PM	STOX50	6225.9									Success
10:18:57PM	GERMANY	24928.6									‘cess
10:33:03PM	US500	7377									Success
10:36:12PM	DOW	51715
10:42:26PM	NASDAQ	29443.1									Success
10:45:13PM	JAPAN	69151	68290	67896	66034	68861	69508	69917	70467	69136	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.

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

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 511.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 2520 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2853 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HIK Hikma. Close Mid-Price: 1515 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc. Close Mid-Price: 173.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#GOLD #WALLStThe UK market responded rather well to the news the Prime Minister has finally done something for the good of the country, resigning. Of course, the jury is out on the subject of the next bloke being useful, coming from Manchester and the stomping ground for the grooming brigade. We would have expected the guy would have been all over the media historically but instead, he’s generally opted for the safe route by remaining silent on the dreadful situation within his control area. Doubtless, the media shall start digging into this, once the (expected) next Prime Minister settles in to his place at the trough.

Meanwhile, Persimmon, nothing to do with the fantastic fruit from Spain which they are named after but we finally got around to enjoying a tray. Some hope is apparently deserved for Persimmon share price as it’s been refusing to collapse despite plenty of signals suggesting grabbing a parachute might be a good idea. Below the 10 quid level risks promoting the idea of reversal to an initial 771p with our secondary, if broken, at 502p.

Balancing this gloomy scenario, our previous report calculated with a target of 1,441p, a price level successfully exceeded with the share eventually reaching 1,560p and making us look stupid for our previous calculation. The implicit suggestion is for strength in the share price and despite the immediate situation, we should plan for happy days ahead. Should this be the case, it will be worth watching .

Apparently, above 1,0053p should trigger recovery to a relatively useless 1,096p. Our secondary, if bettered, works out at a more useful 1,224p and dumps the share price into a zone where long term Big Picture potentials are possible at around 1,306p and exceeding the long term downtrend since 2021. This would be quite a big deal.

For now, alas, the share price is porking around in the doldrums, trying to make the idea of reversals looks valid. We suspect the converse shall prove to be the case.And the weather is also good with a Grand Prix imminent.

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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
11:17:17PM	BRENT	7781.1
11:24:02PM	GOLD	4189.97	4137	4100	4060	4179	4221	4226	4261	4183
11:47:57PM	FTSE	10414.7									Shambles
11:53:41PM	STOX50	6303.7
11:57:10PM	GERMANY	25046.7									Success
12:08:00AM	US500	7464.4									‘cess
11:38:52PM	DOW	51757	51600	51488	51354	51798	51894	52026	52261	51692	Success
11:42:50PM	NASDAQ	30188.6									Shambles
11:45:40PM	JAPAN	71984									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.

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

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **

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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 644.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 516 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EZJ EasyJet. Close Mid-Price: 518 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1451.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 465.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 109.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1221 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 663 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc. Close Mid-Price: 170.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2071 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 449.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#Brent #Nasdaq The markets are proving a little crazy this year, perhaps even full on fruitcake. From a UK perspective, Share prices want to go up, some quite substantially. But Brent Crude wants to drop quite sharply, Gold often feels on the edge of a meltdown toward the $3k level, and CryptoCurrency only has itself to blame. Obviously, the Iran thing has focussed minds on just what is and is not a safe place to store your currency and Crypto, pretty conclusively, has been left wanting. In fact, should BitCoin manage to close a session below $63k, things risk becoming particularly nasty with a visit to the $50k level initially with our secondary looking absurd around $25k and a return to the levels of just 3 years ago.

Making things worse, Bitcoin has enacted a pretty neat Head & Shoulders movement formation since the start of 2025. The guy who theorised this to be a useful charting weapon calculated around $38k would be a typical outcome in the current scenario, our expectation around $25k is rather more painful, a result we anticipate to prove correct. Only if, of course, Bitcoin takes the final steps off the cliff. Like Scotland and their forthcoming match against Brazil, this crypto is on the edge, just waiting the right calamity circumstances. Scotland, on the other hand, only need walk onto a football pitch to face Brazil for calamity.

As for Barclays, their share price is doing fairly similar things to others in the banking sector. Essentially, there appears to be quite a lot of confidence (mostly hidden) which should flourish once the Iran shambles is complete. We couldn’t help but speculate the current Iranian walkout from “peace” talks may have something to do with softening oil prices. At least the Pakistan, Iranian, and American delegations can enjoy quality time in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, a place where great views were probably invented.

In the last few days, Barclays share price took a glance above the Blue downtrend since 2007, didn’t like what it saw and promptly retreated to the comparative safety below Blue. Generally, this sort of nonsense defines a share which, if it is going to move, will move fast. All it needs do is actually start going up!

Above 508p should provide a sane trigger to suggest proper movement is coming, this giving the “threat” of a visit to an initial 528p with our secondary for the longer term calculating at a less likely 614p.

If things intend go wrong for Barclays, their share price needs shuffle below Red at 460p currently, risking a visit down to an initial 448p. There is certainly hope for a near term bounce at such a level but our secondary, if it breaks, works out at a future 428p and the risk of the price getting stuck in mud for a while.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
8:58:33PM	BRENT	7971.6	7795	7538	7291	8280	8015	8164	8357	7898
9:00:55PM	GOLD	4155.08
9:03:07PM	FTSE	10356.2
9:06:40PM	STOX50	6275
9:14:27PM	GERMANY	24993.9
9:18:10PM	US500	7490.4
9:56:47PM	DOW	51480.8
10:18:39PM	NASDAQ	30336.4	30080	29946	29774	30301	30410	30536	30849	30216
10:22:13PM	JAPAN	71711

 

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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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:IPF International Personal Finance** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **

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LSE:AML Aston Martin. Close Mid-Price: 39.74 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 496.45 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HIK Hikma. Close Mid-Price: 1457 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 248.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1212 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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The breath taking arrogance of UK politicians has proven quite distasteful, while we await the results from a parliamentary seat somewhere near Manchester. We used to see this sort of thing in Scotland, where Labour politicians treated the public vote as theirs, each election promising a guaranteed seat at the trough Eventually, the penny dropped with the electorate, the entitled Labour politicians ejected almost entirely and replaced by an SNP government, an organisation which has managed to produce its own “entitled” troughers and is now paying the price. Hopefully we shall reach a stage where local independent politicians start to take seats as it’s becoming clear large political parties only owe allegiance to themselves, rather than the electorate.

It would be lovely if the results from Manchester toppled the smarmy expectations, though this would risk the current UK Prime Minister staying in place longer. Unfortunately, our suspicion is the Labour guy shall take the seat as he’s disturbingly confident he’s about to be anointed as the next PM.

Making Thursday even more irritating was the Bank of England, opting to continue their suffocating assault on the UK economy. They could easily have surfed the “glory” of the previous evenings England football match, celebrating by doing something positive with interest rates. Unfortunately, the political masters of the BoE clearly do not approve of such an action, so the entire country (and stock market) continues to be suffocated by a central bank following an economic policy which is a proven failure.

It certainly appears the case the FTSE was far from impressed by the BoE actions, setting things up for a Friday with reversals expected. Now below 10.375 looks capable of triggering reversal to an initial 10,335 with our secondary, if broken, at 10,256 and hopefully a rebound. However, it’s worth pointing out the danger of a third level, should the UK index find an excuse to close below 10,256 as a further journey to 10,033 is expected and a very probable market bottom.

Then again, the market does not need to work hard to express some optimism, only needing above 10,435 to trigger gains in the direction of 10,509 points with our secondary, if bettered, at 10,642 points.

From the feel of things, we suspect reversals shall be on the cards.

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
11:42:36PM	BRENT	7854.6	7625	7481	6176	8317	7931	7970	8100	7801
11:45:10PM	GOLD	4204.66	4201	4189	4142	4234	4276	4284	4312	4242
11:47:44PM	FTSE	10401.4	10376	10340	10279	10421	10470	10501	10542	10426
11:51:42PM	STOX50	6327.2	6242	6203	6156	6302	6344	6365	6397	6276
11:53:57PM	GERMANY	25046.3	24835	24735	24612	25010	25104	25163	25224	25021
11:09:49PM	US500	7497	7402	7347	7270	7491	7531	7571	7627	7488
11:13:23PM	DOW	51569.5	51478	51236	50885	51716	52243	52302	53164	51980
11:16:07PM	NASDAQ	30361.2	29962	29770	29540	30220	30468	30551	30868	30325
11:34:15PM	JAPAN	71824	71060	70799	70363	71529	72114	73530	75127	71470

 

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:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 5815 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 641.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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Sorry, our Broadband failed, making it impossible to publish this before the markets opened..

We’ve got a held a vote; is it more fun watching our robot lawnmower or football? A clear majority in our household favoured the little robot and to be accurate, it was only my wife and I voting. But 100% of us found we spend more time watching the grass monster trundling around, rather than a bunch of folk who really should know better, chasing a ball.  Our grass robot isn’t one of these posh ones with GPS control. Instead, it relies on bouncing off things, making random cuts everywhere and with a little bit of moisture, proves utterly unable to go in a straight line. In an attempt to make the cutting lines more regular, we placed a couple of rocks on the lawn only to see the thing wilfully avoid choose to avoid them and for 3 hours, the only part of the lawn which hadn’t been cut was a moat of grass around each boulder. Then it opted to switch things up, spending the next three hours trying to hit the rocks constantly.

Whatever software drives the little robot has a quite different understanding of the concept of “random” than we do. My wife challenged me to figure out software code to drive the machine, so obviously mucking around produced quite a simple series of commands which would effectively drive the machine exactly the way it drives. Essentially, a cascade of “Do This, if you can’t, then Do That, and if you can’t, “Try This”, each command effectively being an attempt to escape from the immediate situation. Or in plain English, think of a woman trying to park a car. Go right, go right some more, go even more right, go further right, try accelerating, go right again, try accelerating harder, go right again. Effectively, ending up with a theoretical machine rotating in a theoretical circle quite perfectly described our robots idea of hysterics. Unfortunately, software alone cannot magically produce a wire brush to clean the grooves in the wheels, clogged grass tending to produce little in the way of drive.

In other words, rather than assume a robot grass machine actually has a brain, it is best to assume a Human Overlord is watching the machines effort, ready and willing to sprint outside into light rain to clear the clogged wet grass from the driving wheels. In other words, relying on AI will always go wrong, without human supervision. There comes a point when software simply runs out of options and shuts down. Which is exactly what happens with our little robot, when it runs into an exceptionally large dog poo or sneaky rock!  Perhaps a decent Laser will destroy obstacles but this type of thinking drifts into Terminator territory.

We still prefer the concept of Artificial Intelligence only being real, if the software erects humanity to the level of being its creator. Until then, it’s only software running “If” algorithms.

But then again, there is always ice cream. With Magnum Ice Cream Company launched on the markets, we’re REALLY not fans of overpriced Magnums, invariably selecting from the cheaper “Me Too” selection in the freezer at our local petrol station shop, Magnums are nice but, chocolate covered ice cream is equally nice and a Magnum never gives a “special” moment when eating it. This ridiculous concept of “special” may sound ridiculous but real chocolate junkies know what it really means. Sometimes you eat the perfect Bounty Bar, sometimes you eat the perfect “Whole Nut” and these delights tend keep the glutton on the correct path. But a Magnum is simply chocolate encrusted ice cream, so the company really should try harder.

It’s easy to ridicule this concept but anyone who drinks coffee understands it, doomed to a life of once again making “the perfect” coffee. Thankfully, with our in-house Bean to Cup machine making such an ideology possible every morning, it’d be nice if an Ice Cream company produced a “perfect” product.

Then again, perhaps this is exactly the target every chocolate or ice cream company has spent their existence trying to attain. (Clue: nothing is nicer than letting a Galaxy square slowly melt in the mouth!)

As for Magnum, while we’ve proven our credentials in the fanboy category, it pnly needs above 1300p to indicate the potential for share price growth to an initial 1,367p with our secondary, if bettered, at a future 1,499p. Above such a level gives a problem, indicating the 15 quid level shall probably prove a future “top”.

If things intend go pear shaped, below 1232 looks like creating an issue for the future, potentially triggering reversals to an initial 1,177 with our secondary, when broken, at 1,032p and a potential bounce.

Like a chocolate Magnum drip on a white shirt in a traffic jam, it’s a bit complex….

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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
12:03:59AM	BRENT	7855.4	7748	7535	6648	8053	7986	8066	8172	7864
11:08:38PM	GOLD	4334.04	4312	4295	4275	4346	4355	4361	4368	4329	‘cess
11:11:25PM	FTSE	10461.3	10430	10401	10360	10477	10524	10537	10565	10486	‘cess
11:14:10PM	STOX50	6235	6220	6204	6176	6252	6288	6316	6348	6249	Shambles
11:28:49PM	GERMANY	24798.9	24738	24663	24516	24846	25110	25285	25477	24988	Shambles
11:33:50PM	US500	7524	7504	7490	7465	7535	7550	7558	7576	7526	Shambles
11:37:21PM	DOW	52075	51694	51514	51285	51828	52200	52305	53170	51977
11:51:24PM	NASDAQ	30067.5	29943	29931	29696	30195	30636	31130	32094	30424	‘cess
11:54:12PM	JAPAN	69440	68755	68468	67957	69352	69632	66991	66739	69277	‘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:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1390 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#FTSE #WallSt A client emailed asking us to examine Games Workshop, a share we’ve forgotten about, probably quite wilfully. A personal guilty secret is a love of Science Fiction writing but unfortunately, the folk who catalogue books include “fantasy” such as Star Wars, Dr Who, and Games Workshops main product, “Warhammer” in the category of Sci-Fi. Unfortunately, there’s an extremely large bunch of Warhammer fans who enthusiastically self publish a massive range of Warhammer stories, based on the popular game from Games Workshop. Accidentally downloading a few of the Warhammer audio-books, none proved of sufficient interest to justify getting beyond the first chapters, and thus the theme joined Star Wars & Dr Who in my personal “blocked” list in the Sci-Fi category.

However, this personal foible hasn’t proven sufficient to dampen Games Workshop share price rise. The company employ a “zero tolerance” approach to those who impinge their Intellectual Property, this doubtless being the reason fans produce so much literature, rather than models, coffee mugs, t-shirts, images, maps, for which Games Workshop jealously protect their copyright. Another company who use “zero tolerance” for their character sets is Disney and the policy certainly hasn’t harmed them.

It’s quite interesting – from our nerd perspective – to note Games Workshop (GW to their friends) are now trading above our logical “Top”, the number beyond which we normally be unable to calculate. This worked out at 18,941p and with a relatively impressive degree of confidence, the market managed to confirm our calculations with the current very visible pause around the 19,000p level. But we’re starting to suspect the current hiatus may yet prove just a stutter for the future as now, above 20,340p should apparently trigger a climb to an initial 20,606p. Our secondary, if bettered, works out at 21,304 and yet another all time high. In fact, our secondary target level is a bit arguable as we can also present a longer term ambition at a future 22,128p.

Who knew there was so much interest in the UK’s answer to Dungeons & Dragons. Perhaps the current UK Prime Minister should consider copyright on his speeches as it seems there is serious money to be made from Fantasy.

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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
12:03:59AM	BRENT	7855.4
11:08:38PM	GOLD	4334.04									‘cess
11:11:25PM	FTSE	10461.3	10430	10401	10360	10477	10524	10537	10565	10486	‘cess
11:14:10PM	STOX50	6235									Shambles
11:28:49PM	GERMANY	24798.9									Shambles
11:33:50PM	US500	7524									Shambles
11:37:21PM	DOW	52075	51694	51514	51285	51828	52200	52305	53170	51977
11:51:24PM	NASDAQ	30067.5									‘cess
11:54:12PM	JAPAN	69440									‘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:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1393 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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