Author: T&T Staff

#Brent #Dax As expected, Monaco provided a boring race, albeit one with plenty of entertainment of around 1/4 of the drivers penalised for speeding in the pit lane, along with a few of them hitting walls. Eventually a reasonable bump provided a Red flag, stopping the race and producing 7 laps of pretend racing, the drivers unable to pass the car in front. Which is the big problem with Monaco but we’ve learned the sneaky way to make the event tolerable. Record it, then watch on Fast Forward. Unfortunately, we cannot do this Retail Banking Sector share prices but, gosh, we wish we could.

Nine sessions ago NatWest share price broke through this years Blue downtrend. In the period since, NatWest share prices have “done a Monaco”, their share price exploring a fascinating 10p range of closing prices while it effectively has done nothing. For a share flirting with the 6 quid level, a 10p range of prices failed to give any sort of reasonable Risk/Reward for traders. The share price is “supposed” to be heading upward, hesitation doubtless being blamed on the Iran thing. Or perhaps the Lebanon thing. Our suspicion, once the various “things” are cleared up, is for NatWest to hopefully explode into life, accelerating upward faster than a projectile fired from Beirut.

It appears, given this tedious flatline behaviour, that movement next above 604.5p should ‘reliably’ trigger gains to an initial 622 with our secondary, if bettered, a very probable 631p. Visually, there are three arguments favouring some hesitation at such a level but closure above 631p shall be viewed as significant for the longer term, theoretically triggering a future 682p and a challenge against a Light Blue downtrend which dates back to 2008.

For things to go wrong, below 553p would be a bad thing, risking a visit to 506p with our secondary, if broken an unlikely 438p. Our inclination is toward optimism for this share.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
2:15:54AM	BRENT	9210.4	9276	8993	8710	9407	9512	9650	9804	9400
2:59:52AM	GOLD	4328.3
3:11:23AM	FTSE	10334.6
9:57:45PM	STOX50	6012.5
10:00:27PM	GERMANY	24570.8	24504	24463	24276	24704	24868	24978	25136	24758
10:03:10PM	US500	7357.3
10:05:45PM	DOW	50746
10:27:41PM	NASDAQ	28780
10:33:28PM	JAPAN	63827

 

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:AML Aston Martin. Close Mid-Price: 41.12 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 603.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 72.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury. Close Mid-Price: 300.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital. Close Mid-Price: 12.25 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#FTSE #Nasdaq As we brace ourselves for the boring procession of cars in the so-called “race” from Monaco, we appreciated the British driver George Russell expressing the sentiment that the race should be scrapped. Instead, running a Qualifying Session on Saturday along with another on Sunday, awarding points on the times achieved, would offer more entertainment than the “race”. After years and years of watching Formula1, it’s impossible to disagree with such a concept as the Saturday qualifying is always the best bit, famously once spoiled by Michael Schumacher ‘accidentally crashing’ to inhibit other competitors from beating his time.

Since the start of April, the FTSE has been doing processional driving, manoeuvring on an imaginary track 400 points wide and like Monaco, providing very little in the way of entertainment!

For the future, we’re inclined to anticipate the worst because this is the FTSE, an index always ready to disappoint both participants and spectators. At present, there’s a threat weakness below 10,238 points shall trigger reversal to a tame near term 10,203 points and perhaps a bounce. However, a break of 10,203 points could signal trouble, powering reversal to 10,080 points with our Big Picture secondary coming in at a hopeful ‘bottom’ of 9.833 points. To indulge a bout of hysteria, this could easily prove to be the start of a proper market “correction”, probably to be blamed on AI optimism collapsing. As a result, the Big Picture gives the potential of a “real” bottom working out at a ridiculous looking 8,840 points…

Of course, there’s always a “however” and in the case of the FTSE, it may come from the strength of Wall Street, an index which has been achieving “higher highs” every few days recently. Perhaps some of this optimism from the American market shall spill across the pond to infect gullible folk in the UK. To be fair, we’ve been expecting a visit to 10,200 for a while and the fact the UK index has avoiding impaling itself at such a level maybe indicates some well hidden strength.

Should this indeed be the case, we can throw some near term numbers into the frame as above just 10,378 points should apparently trigger movement to an initial 10,470 points with our longer term secondary, if beaten, at 10,582 points. While this would initially suggest the index is once again swerving across its 400 point wide track, but this time, opening the door for a 3rd level target if the secondary is exceeded, an impressive 11,153 points and another new all time high.

We can hope the UK market intends follow the US example. Perhaps the US leader shall avoid playing with big fireworks until their countries 4th July celebration of 250 years of independence, as the entire nation continues to kiss the ground, praising the fact they are immune from incompetent UK politicians.

Have a good weekend, hopefully without a climate similar to our Scottish weather. Our garden waterfall is currently in full flow and it’s not snow melt but instead, due to heavy, very heavy, rain. My wife phoned at 4pm, saying she’d pulled over on the drive home as it was impossible to move safely in a rainstorm. It was true, the other side of the loch completely obscured in a rain cloud  just 2 miles away. But I was in the garden, in sunshine, once again reinforcing the perimeter cable for the lawn robot. It seems 5cm is the optimum underground level to bury it, an easy job to 3d print a special tool to feed the cable the correct depth. This perimeter cable has rapidly become hated, the source of properly sore backs. But the little robot remains the leading contender to replace the little red tractor.

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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
11:28:36PM	BRENT	9446.7									Success
11:30:38PM	GOLD	4457.1									‘cess
11:17:51PM	FTSE	10341	10237	10165	10087	10308	10400	10426	10461	10315	Shambles
11:19:48PM	STOX50	6077									‘cess
11:21:45PM	GERMANY	24809.2
11:23:48PM	US500	7542.4									Shambles
11:26:11PM	DOW	51556.3									Success
11:29:14PM	NASDAQ	30014.8	29994	29971	29709	30106	30084	30544	30725	29995	Success
11:32:17PM	JAPAN	65993	65861	65723	64716	66159	67668	68358	69190	67433	Shambles

 

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

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

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

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

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

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LSE:BME B & M. Close Mid-Price: 208.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 294.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 3218 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 74.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 448.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#FTSE #STOXX A couple of requests regarding Georgina Energy were impossible to ignore, if only due to Mrs T&T’s name being Georgina. We wonder what inspired the company name as we cannot find anything which perhaps relates to their holdings in the USA. We’ve a terrible track record with Helium & Hydrogen biased companies, our enthusiasm for future fuel which isn’t based on electricity, invariably producing an optimistic tone, regardless of what the numbers may be saying…

We can currently argue about the dangers of any break against the immediate Red uptrend, an irritating line for 2026 which currently suggests any break below 2.75p risks a visit to 0.85p and that’s it! We cannot calculate anything below such a level, so hopefully we are now viewing a share which has seen a bottom. Visually, this would seem to be the case.

Above 7.2p anytime soon would give sufficient reason for optimism. A movement such as this is liable to trigger recovery to an initial 9.6p with our secondary for the longer term, if bettered, working out at a future 13.8p. Given the share price is presently trading around 5.8p, it’s also worth pointing out, should it discover sufficient excuse to close above 13.8p in the future, we can already promote the concept of a Big Picture attraction coming from 21p.

Who knows, perhaps Australia shall prove useful for something?

One thing which remains a puzzle came from many of the graphics on Georgina Energy website, quite a lot of space given over to images of the now cancelled US Space Shuttle, along with rather a few artist renderings of impossible spacecraft. It certainly cheers up their internet presence, while providing absolutely no information unless, perhaps, they intend mine Helium3 on the Moon.

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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
10:52:57PM	BRENT	9668.1									Success
10:55:45PM	GOLD	4439.25
11:01:52PM	FTSE	10283.6	10280	10265	10226	10326	10382	10406	10448	10345
11:03:59PM	STOX50	6027.2	6014	5985	5946	6040	6095	6107	6138	6065
11:07:52PM	GERMANY	24677.1									Success
11:11:19PM	US500	7524.6									Success
11:16:49PM	DOW	50730.3
11:20:17PM	NASDAQ	30358.7									‘cess
11:23:07PM	JAPAN	67259									‘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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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:BME B & M** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **

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LSE:BME B & M. Close Mid-Price: 195.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 608.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 73.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2012 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 19 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 1.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey. Close Mid-Price: 76.32 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#FTSE #Nasdaq We previously reviewed Glencore back in January, suggesting the day the share price closed above the 571p level would justify drooling for the sharer price future. May has been interesting, the share price finally closing above our target level and better still, attaining a series of “higher highs”. This tends imply Glencore has a cunning plan with, perhaps, a new future about to unwind through a puddle of traders drool! But first, we need tell you about a Black Cat.

The dog introduced a new bark to her repertoire, justifying looking out to the garden in an attempt to discover whatever new bird had invaded the lawn. Instead, there was a cat, sitting in a perfect cat posture, up at our log cutting area. Calling my wife to come look, she said “That is really big, don’t let Penny (the dog) out.”. The dog was happy to bark, showing no ambition to run into the garden, and the cat stood up, stretched itself, then walked away. Later, when along at the beach for our evening walk, I bumped into a local shepherd and told him about the massive cat, the size (roughly) of a one year old Labrador. Apparently the animal is something of a local celebrity, even blamed for killing the occasional lamb at this time of year. He wanted the sighting reported to a farmer who’s made it his mission to stuff the extremely big cat. To expand, we’re used to oddball animals but this thing was different, roughly twice the size of a typical wildcat  (another garden visitor) and capable of leaving a Maine Coon in the shade of a fur ball. My wife did take a snapshot of the cat, discovering her mobile phone was unable to capture an image of something 50 metres away without spending time setting up the shot.

Perhaps the cat is the reason our usual gang of deer are choosing to avoid destroying everything in the garden.

As for Glencore, traders are probably drooling like the cat over a free meal, their share price looking exceedingly attractive at present. We’re devotees of the “higher high” method for picking sure things (no such thing) and Glencore certainly ticks quite a few boxes for optimism. The share price shall doubtless relax again toward the 571p level, so perhaps it’s worth watching on the basis the company shall indeed dig themselves further higher highs. The price would need close below 571p before we’d lose optimism for the longer term.

Currently, above 615p looks capable of triggering further share price growth to an initial 649p with our secondary, if exceeded, now at a longer term 795p and perhaps beyond. Whether its the price of Gold, Silver, or Copper, things certainly seem to be heading in Glencore’s favour at present. All they need do is announce an AI has replaced their board of directors and the share price shall doubtless go utterly mad. After all, everyone involved with the stock market truly believes anything which involves AI is the way forward… Okay, we’re cynical, knowing it’s an AI bubble but completely uncomfortable in pointing out where it will burst. Nvidia should obviously be the lead indicator but equally, it could be a minnow which presages any collapse.

If Glencore intend any drama, below 542 risks triggering reversal to an initial 476p with our longer term secondary, if broken, an eventual “bottom” ideally just above 390p.

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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
11:25:01PM	BRENT	9527.9
11:28:04PM	GOLD	4488
11:29:33PM	FTSE	10380.5	10285	10231	10112	10370	10588	10707	10826	10432
11:38:26PM	STOX50	6098									‘cess
11:45:24PM	GERMANY	25108.6
11:49:01PM	US500	7614.7									Success
11:52:11PM	DOW	51327.3
11:55:25PM	NASDAQ	30665.5	30446	30353	30236	30535	30712	30795	30972	30547	Success
11:58:11PM	JAPAN	67384	66700	66319	65892	66940	67600	67973	68782	67290	‘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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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **

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LSE:AAL Anglo American. Close Mid-Price: 4225 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 292 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 615 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IQE IQE. Close Mid-Price: 55.9 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1545 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2063 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 1.375 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#GOLD #WallSt  It transpires our robot lawn mower has cannibalistic tendencies. The machine comes with “perimeter cable”, a roll of thin, insulated, wire which is clipped into the ground every 80cm. This worked absolutely brilliantly, the robot trundling over the thin blue wire, then reversing itself and ricocheting off at unlikely angles. The flaw in the instructions is pretty obvious, once you think about it. Grass Grows. A thin bit of wire is propelled upward after a few days and the little robot is poised to eat its own cable. When this happens, the electro-magnetic field around the lawn simply stops and the robot loses signal, so turns itself off.

On the “keep fit” side of life, poking a narrow trench around the border to a 400 sq metre lawn turned out to be hard work. Though not as hard as finishing digging the tiny trench and needing to get down on my knees and poke the blue wire into the slots created on the lawn, then thumping it closed with a gloved fist. Of course, it was obviously raining while this punishment exercise was enacted but when everything was powered up for a test, the robot detected the (new) border as its cutting area had been expanded, thanks to lessons learned from the initial border. Despite the need for this horrible job, the 200 quid robot from Aldi remains a “Best Buy” in our thinking. To be honest, our previous house with a just 20 sq metre lawn would deserve such a little toy mower, the device providing hours of visual entertainment as you bet with yourself about the survival time of a buttercup, daisy, or arrogant dandelion.

A bunch of emails flooded in, asking our updated thoughts on Applied Nutrition. We previously reviewed it when the share price was around  219p and now, it looks like our “all time high” ambition at 296p looks at risk. Perhaps its my wifes fault as I notice she’s hoarding some of their product in her “survival” cupboard. This is a cupboard where my “Summer Fruits” 4x dilution bottles live, the rest of the area given over to her essential daily foods. While perhaps being a little sarcastic, when she arrived home from work, I asked “Did you get any complements today on how you look?”. She’d chosen a denim ensemble for Friday, at first glance a Status Quo enthusiast but in reality, she looked great and had managed to lose 20 years of age, literally looking younger than our daughter. I’d never given great thought to her dietary supplement regime, only indulging in extra Vitamin D pills, along with Folic Acid pills as I might be a little pregnant, my bloodwork showing symptoms since 2004 (yes, honestly) The gluten thing, Coeliac Disease, produces funny blood test numbers, my Doctor once saying; “This is conclusive, you are female, probably in your 80’s, and it looks like you might be pregnant! Should you really be riding that big BMW motorcycle parked outside?” Rather than wearing a frock, avoiding food with gluten (also known as FLAVOUR) has ruined the most recent 22 years of life. Absurdly, thanks to chemotherapy and an immune system artificially boosted by drugs, has proven relatively immune to normal Gluten responses, strongly suggesting there can be positive sides to cancer treatments! While I wouldn’t dare eat a croissant, the temptation is horrible every time our grand-children visit.

Few things are worse than looking at a packet of fresh croissant, along with an unopened jar of Nutella. Once upon a time, there was a single stand in Hauptbanhnhof Munich (Main Railway Station) who sold chocolate croissant, literally justifying parking nearby while my girlfriend ran into the busy station to buy four perfect products from heaven.  When we returned to the snobby Four Seasons, ordering coffee to wash down our loot was genuinely funny with the ceremony with which a coffee trolley was pushed into our room, proving worth a giggle. But wow, did they get their own back when we (okay, I) had to pay the hotel bill for our weekend stay.

As for Applied Nutrition share price, the immediate future looks quite promising,  movement above 283 potentially now triggering a rise to an initial 300p with our secondary, if beaten, a quite pleasant looking 330p and very possible hesitation.

Should things intend go wrong, below 200 risks trauma, introducing the chance of reversal to an initial 171 with our secondary, if broken, at a probable bottom of 132p. However, we are fairly optimistic for their future upward potentials, a further series of “higher highs” looking very possible.

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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
11:19:56PM	BRENT	9393.4									Success
11:22:48PM	GOLD	4481.35	4446	4438	4386	4492	4524	4557	4594	4490	‘cess
11:26:38PM	FTSE	10322.7									Success
11:30:13PM	STOX50	6038
11:33:26PM	GERMANY	25051.7									Shambles
11:36:51PM	US500	7569.3									‘cess
11:40:23PM	DOW	50833.3									‘cess
11:43:25PM	NASDAQ	30326.7	30233	30069	29881	30328	30402	30526	30638	30374	‘cess
11:46:35PM	JAPAN	65870									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:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 19 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#Brent Crude #DAX Sometimes a television program comes along and folk say “this, alone, makes the BBC licence fee worthwhile!”. Unfortunately for the state broadcaster, it seems Netflix may be deserving of such a title. Their recent show “Legends” proved compulsive viewing over the weekend, justifying a “This alone makes a Netflix subscription worthwhile!”. We do tend be a little cynical as we had once subscribed to Amazon, just to watch “The Grand Tour” from Clarkston & Co. Once it finished, we cancelled the subscription, only to renew once Clarkstons Farm became a thing. But “Legends” proved truly addictive viewing, rationing ourselves with two episodes per evening from Friday until the show ended on Sunday evening. An uncle who was rather senior in the government organisation which is the focus of the program, we were regaled with some of the tale in the late 1980’s (at a Viking festival in Orkney) but this TV show brought his drunken story telling to life.

And this, of course, brings us to Barclays Plc…

Actually, struggling to find the correct entry point for a Barclays Plc story, there is one aspect of the television show which wasn’t mentioned, not even slightly. In the final rolling credits, the text told of UK civil servants successfully achieving heroic  results without any additional government support, manpower, or training. What they missed out was important, the events took place in the final decade where senior management had mostly fought in the second world war, were nearing retirement, and when the need presented itself,  exactly the people needed to deal with such a threat were in place. This sort of thing was repeated at senior level through politics, industry, and the banking sector, where newer senior management had military levels of discipline and expectations, often encouraging recruitment from commissioned military. From a personal perspective, witnessing at first hand the decline in competence in the Oil sector and Banking sector was weird, not because of any empathy with these senior Golf & Lunch brigade members but instead, seeing a complete change of ethos which by the start of the 21st century heralded a “new” banking sector and “new” oil sector as the old, ex-military, thinking vanished. However, the core of our skiing gang were mostly ex-military, now in corporate world upper management just before everything changed completely and civilians took precedence. As someone in business, tt would be difficult to find something nice to say about the banking sector during that period, management dissolving into a murky group-think where the only thing was a belief everything from the past was bad, computers were the only future, and customers – as it still the case – were the enemy. My bank manager could ski and would also attend (take over) jamming sessions in my garage. It was a real garage and we used the body & spray shop, allowing us to face the drummer and use whatever amps we wanted. He was ex-military and took early retirement from Barclays, faster than an eye can blink when offered.

For various reasons, we’re inclined toward optimism for Barclays.

Perhaps importantly, the share price is now trading solidly above 445p, the level at which it broke through the immediate Blue downtrend. From our conventional arguments, this now suggests a “sure thing”, where movement above 463.5 should propel the share price to an initial 488p with our “longer term” secondary, if bettered, at 499p and the visible threat of some hesitation.

Adding flamable chemicals to this fire is the Red uptrend, one which implies movement above just 443p should be taken seriously as a sign some strong recovery should be planned for. This argument is a little more insane than the one in the preceding paragraph, suggesting a cycle to an initial 528p has become possible, maybe even a fruitcake factory 584p. We fear this Red Line theory relies a little heavily on President Trump striding the world, spreading sweetness & Light, along with everyone agreeing with him, utterly.

As always, we need to supply our negative scenario, one which we actually doubt as the market “wants” to go up. But below just 440p would apparently be a bad thing, allowing reversal to an initial 388p with our secondary, if broken, at 362p. And hopefully a bounce…

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
10:44:09PM	BRENT	9124.5	8960	8565	7626	9270	9260	9358	9492	9092
10:46:44PM	GOLD	4539.9
10:48:33PM	FTSE	10369
10:50:50PM	STOX50	6026
10:52:39PM	GERMANY	25050.1	25030	24954	24868	25121	25212	25335	25478	25076
10:56:05PM	US500	7577.6
10:59:53PM	DOW	51004.2
11:01:48PM	NASDAQ	30362.2
11:03:49PM	JAPAN	66231

 

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: 194.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc. Close Mid-Price: 223 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 3278 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1337.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 18.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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#FTSE #GOLD Penny, our Golden Retriever, usually amuses herself trying to bury a hedgehog, when she comes across one in the forest. However, she discovered an entirely new game, barking furiously at one of the animals while she kicked it around our lawn. Doubtless, she’d already discovered it was impossible to pick up the spiky little ball and nudging it with her snout probably hurt. Instead, the poor animal was being flicked around the grass as she curled a paw over it, then skilfully propelled it across the lawn behind her. Needless to say, this took place around 2am, the dog resisting quietly yelled threats to stop barking, while she invented her own game of football. Doubtless, she exhibited more skill than than Scottish football team will do at this summers competition. (we’re not sure if it is World Cup or Olympics football which is getting the media excited)

The FTSE is getting close to providing a “sure thing” for those who follow/trade the index. Obviously, there is absolutely no such thing as a “sure thing” on the stock market but movements, while generally pretty lame, in the last few weeks tend imply the FTSE is poised to fly like our garden hedgehog didn’t.

From a bigger picture perspective, the threat is for movement above 10522 points triggering a rise to an initial 10582 with our secondary, if bettered, an impressive 10728 points. As a result, we need examine intraday movements over the last week or so, trying to identify any reason for the market to exceed 10522. This proves a harder job than we suspected. With the index currently trading around 10440 points, it actually needs above 10492 points before we even dare raise an eyebrow, let along hopes for strong FTSE movement.

Instead, it feels like weakness remains possible for the UK main market as below 10377 points risks promoting reversal down to an initial 10301 points. with our secondary, if broken, calculating at 10219 points.

Our suspicion, as it’s a month end, is to expect reversal to 10301 points, then a surprise bounce with June starting with some optimism, hopefully capable of triggering some of our bigger picture thoughts.

Have a good weekend. There isn’t a proper Grand Prix for a few weeks as next weeks effort from Monaco remains a boring proposition. Perhaps we shall see drivers playing Suduko on their phones, while they adhere to whatever procession has been ordained for the “race”. But the qualifying session is always worth watching!

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:05:50PM	BRENT	9200.4	9050	8996		9317	9479	9641		9314	‘cess
11:08:31PM	GOLD	4491.18	4367	4299		4458	4515	4560		4464	‘cess
11:11:46PM	FTSE	10411	10399	10372		10450	10451	10468		10417	Success
11:43:11PM	STOX50	6049.8	5994	5923		6044	6084	6107		6044	‘cess
11:47:23PM	GERMANY	25108.1	24906	24727		25101	25254	25340		25076	Success
11:50:02PM	US500	7568.2	7490	7466		7520	7578	7593		7558	‘cess
11:46:12PM	DOW	50684.7	50335	50251		50591	50783	50914		50643
11:52:50PM	NASDAQ	30191.5	29694	29571		29930	30303	30435		30180
11:56:54PM	JAPAN	65729	63879	63511		64543	66047	66084		65558	‘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:TERN Tern Plc. Close Mid-Price: 1.325 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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