Trends And Targets

A horror story is slowly unfolding in our home. With our dedicated office, four screens designated to monitor markets and prices, supported by a fridge and my magical ‘bean to cup’ machine, it couldn’t be better. So my wife decided to throw a spanner in the works, deciding to work from home for the next few months. She’s employed by a corporate entity and suddenly we’ve to host another pair of monitors, a Cisco box, and associated network security protocols.  She also snaffled our guest bedroom as her lair, occasionally visiting my office to grab a coffee or complain about the toilet seat being up. Of course, with the good weather, she can now be found outside on the patio, a wireless headset, a 20 metre network extension cable and laptop grabbing the shade and doubtless making her staff and colleagues jealous when they see the view over her shoulder. Doubtless our Argyll weather shall introduce some stark reality into the situation and hopefully she remembers to let her Microsoft Teams video link to display the August monsoon.

The “horror story” evolving comes from some entrenched habits from myself, whether it relates to the “toilet seat”, hoovering the lounge, strimming the lawn edges, .running the dishwasher, or picking up a guitar for an obligatory hour plus of practice. The issue my wife forgets is I’m always constantly monitoring the markets, thinking about how some shares are heading, running futures scenarios, or considering whatever headline article I’ll write during the night, and everything else is simply filling a gap between my next market test. Often, I’ll pick up on volumes against a share, run the numbers, decide it’s a waste of time. Sometimes during the trading day, I shall pick up something useful and only if it proves worthwhile, shall it make its way into a headline feature. Perhaps the next 11 weeks will avoid being a horror story but there’s a scary difference between a 24 hour day and a 9 to 5 day.

This, obviously, has little to do with Natwest but we must admit to a fair degree of optimism for the future. When we previously reviewed the share 3 weeks ago, we mentioned the possibility of closure above 631p dumping the share price into happy territory.. This is now the case, so we’re doomed to suggest movement next above 667p should next attack an initial 688p with our secondary, if exceeded, at 740p. Or as they call it in the retail banking world, happy days ahead…

Our alternat4e scenario requires the share to drift below 545 to break Red, threatening a visit to an initial 543 with our secondary, if broken, a bottom around 501p hopefully.

For now, we’re a little optimistic. Hopefully they don’t appopint the outgoing UK PM to their board.

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
9:22:39PM	BRENT	7350.9	7230	7104	6938	7294	7468	7710	7882	7298
9:34:20PM	GOLD	4088.79								4040
9:35:57PM	FTSE	10476								10484
9:37:49PM	STOX50	6207								6214
10:28:23PM	GERMANY	24638.9								24755
10:30:27PM	US500	7332.2								7340
10:32:11PM	DOW	51752								51834
10:34:24PM	NASDAQ	28987.5	28882	28553	28077	29281	29415	29534	29753	29116
10:36:28PM	JAPAN	69507								69687

 

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

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 876 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:CASP Caspian. Close Mid-Price: 1.95 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:HIK Hikma. Close Mid-Price: 1531 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:QED Quadrise. Close Mid-Price: 1.85 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 70.9 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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Most houses have the “goto” person, who’s called with a problem wasp, bee, spider (especially spiders), or once even a tiny little bat. Routinely, a pint glass and a bit of hard cardboard, reside on a bookshelf, ready to spring into action to trap whatever is terrorising my wife, daughter, or grand-daughters. Despite always explaining the savage insect is more scared of them, doing the hero walk out the patio doors with a captive spider is always quite pleasing. A few moments ago, karma went full circle, a big brown moth trying to break the sound barrier while indulging in crazy flying through the office, a one point managing to flap under my reading glasses.

So, like all macho here types, I ran hysterically from the office, slamming the door and turning to face my wife. In a fair world, she’d have gone into the office and caught the big brown manic moth. Instead, she opened the door a crack and emptied the best part of a can of fly spray into it. After an hour or so, entering the office revealed a very dead moth on my office seat, along with the foul residual scent of insect killer. Apparently, should any sarcasm be used in the future about spiders, the subject of this moth shall surface…

To be blunt, the above tale is more interesting that the FTSE. It’s been interesting to note the eventual frustration of analysts throughout the USA and Europe, the penny finally dropping nothing has been happening since April. However, there are now signs some confidence is entering the market place with many shares starting to display a “slightly” elevated heartbeat. Perhaps, the the temperature, the market is finally about to head up and do something useful. Though, to be fair, driving with the dashboard claiming 31c, the roof down, and air-con at full blast, the experience was a little bit decadent. But great, especially as the Magnum ice cream didn’t melt. It reminded of a similar day, driving off the Glenelg ferry to Skye in a rare TVR S3000 2+2 hardtop, turning on the air-con and realising the white stuff pouring out the vents was snow. Eventually the snow stopped and the TVR settled down to issue cool air. We obviously lost the exhaust system shortly afterward, the single track road proving (once again) beyond TVR’s design capability. In fact Skye was to eventually eat TWO exhaust systems from my addiction to a dreadful make of car.

As for the market, it’s apparently the case where we should anticipate movement above 10576 should trigger market recovery to an initial 10,696 points. Our secondary for the longer term (ie; next week) 10,882 points. This is assuming the market behaves according to our rules, a scenario which presents a stop loss level at 10383 points, wide but a reasonable risk/reward calculation.

If things intend go horribly wrong, below 10383 risks promoting trouble, calculating with an initial 10266 points with our secondary, if broken, at 10104 points.

Have a good weekend, the Austrian Grand Prix usually capable of a good race. But Austrian cuisine can be a little difficult!

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
10:09:45PM	BRENT	7505.9	7247	7062		7376	7680	7731		7478
10:14:57PM	GOLD	4025.61	3967	3938		4002	4044	4072		3997
10:18:26PM	FTSE	10516.7	10414	10348		10473	10562	10592		10519	Success
10:22:12PM	STOX50	6259	6232	6209		6264	6286	6304		6236	‘cess
10:32:20PM	GERMANY	24938.9	24844	24738		25030	25092	25144		24960	‘cess
10:45:34PM	US500	7352.8	7322	7308		7392	7431	7466		7393
10:49:37PM	DOW	52001.5	51812	51544		52098	52511	52681		52186	Success
11:17:43PM	NASDAQ	29350.9	28994	28579		29468	29620	29743		29386
11:23:41PM	JAPAN	71335	70646	70268		71170	72577	73427		72142

 

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

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

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

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

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

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 521.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 882 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 480.85 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EZJ EasyJet. Close Mid-Price: 574.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HIK Hikma. Close Mid-Price: 1530 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 488 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 110.05 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:NG. National Glib. Close Mid-Price: 1253 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1432 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury. Close Mid-Price: 310.9 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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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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FUTURES

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.

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LSE:AML Aston Martin. Close Mid-Price: 39.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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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.

FUTURES

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
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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Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares

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.

FUTURES

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
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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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 871 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 490.05 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EMG MAN. Close Mid-Price: 299.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 2509 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1442.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 463.1 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 0 Day Low: 0

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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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