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Good Evening eastern_investor and one and all,

Apologies for the delay in responding... don't ask! Having seen my £10,000 profit currently turn into a £1,750 loss, strangely or foolishly, I still remain pretty calm at the moment. To me, this is just another tremor of further tremors to be felt before before the A.I. Volcano blows. I'm not wanting to sound like i am wishing my life away but will be happy to see November come to an end.

a) What with all the missing data from the U.S.A. arriving (or not) and to be digested by the markets.

b) Robotic Rachel from Accounts and her dreaded budget next week. Sadly, her trust appears to have evaporated will the Banks be hit with further taxes?

c) But what really concerns me is the NVIDIA's reporting at some stage on Wednesday 19th November and a potential 7% move in either direction thereafter... gulp. Fingers crossed it is 7% up (rather than down)this should then have a positive knock-on effect to all other markets 🤞 See my copy and paste from Reuters below:

"NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Nvidia's(NVDA.O), earnings report on Wednesday could trigger a $320 billion swing in the chipmaker's market value — the largest post-earnings move ever for the AI giant — as investors seek signals about whether the artificial intelligence boom is accelerating or cooling.

Nvidia options implied about a 7% move for the stock in either direction after it announces its quarterly results, which are expected following the market close on Wednesday, data from analytics firm Option Research & Technology Services (ORATS) showed."

Anyway, back on track, I really don't see the A.I. explosion until at least May of 2026 at the very earliest. As a betting man, personally i would edge closer to an each-way bet of September to October 2026. This as punters bet and (as you say) of history repeating itself. Discounting the dot.com bubble bursting in March 2000 which was all about loss making start-up's, the crashes of 1929, 1987 and more importantly 2008 all happened in October. Coincidence?

If this rigged roulette wheel operates to form, then i would expect to see, subject to no unknown/unexpected Macro events:

a) A positive uplift in the share price in December 2025 with the expected Santa Run.

b) A positive uplift in the share price in January 2026 with all the institutions investing new "retail" monies for the new financial calendar.

c) A positive uplift in the share price in February 2026 post Barclays full year 2025 Results with Venkat announcing his new Barclays Future Plans.

d) A general uplift in the share price between now and March 2026 with expected Base Rate cuts. Which in the current climate should not hurt the UK Banks.

As for circa 450p, Alistair Stang seems to be in the same camp as me as he concludes with: "From a more immediate perspective, above 424p should be useful, triggering movement to an initial 454p..." For what it's worth i'll post his link separately.

Regards, MrA

E-i (said in a Yorkshire Accent),

Currently at work at the moment but for what it's worth i'll give my opinion later.

Let's see where we are by close of business 🤞

Regards, MrA

🤣🤣🤣

Evening All,

A 2 minute read from Reuters.

A short but interesting piece on the past missed and future probable Mergers and Acquisitions.

From my experience of Reuters they are rarely, if ever, wrong.

Regards, MrA

The official link: https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/barclays-next-chapter-may-have-an-ma-twist-2025-11-13/

...as buyback and AT1 comeback fuel rally.

Good Afternoon All,

A little decent write up here i.m.h.o. from Techstock2. Who? I here you ask... True, I've never heard of them either but worth a read.

The official link: https://ts2.tech/en/barclays-share-price-hits-fresh-52%E2%80%91week-high-on-nov-11-as-buyback-and-at1-comeback-fuel-rally/

Regards, MrA

Good Afternoon All,

As per title, a small 2 minute read from the Motley Fool from just Monday of this week. Worth a read i.m.h.o.

The official link: https://www.fool.co.uk/2025/11/10/i-asked-chatgpt-where-the-barclays-share-price-could-be-at-year-end-and-this-is-what-it-said/

Spoiler Alert: ChatGPT expects it to finish the year between 420p and 430p and the price is already (almost) there.

Regards, MrA

Good Afternoon lordlucan,

For the sake of all others on this board, and chiefly myself, this will be my last message to you in relation to YOUR created thread where you initially undertook the role of the bully/disrupter and now appear to be acting/classifying yourself as the victim - classic troll behaviours.

I will try and be as succinct as I can, as I appreciate that your attention span appears to be somewhat limited.

I have copied and pasted some of your latest outbursts below:

“writing dross like that!”

“I bet you never went to school much!”

“all these posts time and stamped correct all before event!all in black and white,,so matter how much any one wants to twist facts every one can read and see its correct!,,oh I will not say how much I bought shares for so you or any one can track on ticker tape, need to be up very early for that!”

“mr a you write nasty msg, at some other stage you forgot yourself and write msgs?”

Big sigh and inward take of breath…

What the heck are you actually on about? That was a rhetorical question, so please, please, please do not reply.

I can see that you seem to struggle with understanding such simple principles as the markets do not operate as an exact science regardless of the amount of research that either you, I, or anyone else in the world does. Otherwise we would all be millionaires. Research greatly helps to arrive at a decision but not solely or in its entirety.

The fact that my own research and understanding tends to conclude with me using the three G’s is primarily for alliteration purposes but to also emphasise the fact that no matter what my views may be, ultimately, I am at the mercy of the markets and that we all need lady luck in life.

I can see that you are a fan of using the exclamation mark, almost ending every sentence with one. This is the typical written response behaviour of someone that is angry, aggressive and SHOUTING!

Some of my former students would crudely describe this as a behaviour conveyed and expressed by individuals also known as “the nutter on the bus.” Personally, I am not a big fan of this descriptor but it does fit perfectly to allow me to end my discourse with you.

Hence, next stop please driver… I will walk the rest of the way home from here.

I sincerely wish you every success with your trade.

Regards, MrA

Corryvrekan1,

Many thanks for your guidance. Truly appreciated. It allowed me to search for JayK who has not been on the site for pretty much a year to date. As you say, you need to be a premium member to send a private message, of which i am no longer.

Good Luck My Friend.

Regards MrA

Rookie1,

Sadly, I'm not sure what further support, apart from emotional, I can offer you? I genuinely don't ever want to see any Retail Investor get their fingers burned.

To paraphrase your response, there are much more knowledgeable and experienced players out there and on this board. The silent majority normally see things clearer than those who are embroiled on a daily basis. If any of them would like to step forward, I for one would be happy to listen.

I wanted to make contact with JayK, who was an excellent former poster on here, but can't for the life of me work out how to search for his Member Name and message him as LSE have tinkered with this site... again. Anyone have any ideas?

JayK always did, as per MrWolf, (if you're reading) give a sensible, on-point, normally pretty accurate current and short term view of the market and of course Barclays.

Sending you a (virtual) hug as per the John Lewis Christmas Advert.

Good Luck My Friend.

Regards, MrA

Robbo24,

You just made me spit my coffee out with laughter...

To be fair, I suppose that there's still plenty of time to fit in other things like undertaking your uber eats delivery driver takeaway calls... quickly stopping for a dead-cert flutter at the Bookies... enroute of course.

Well Done You!

Good Luck My Friend.

Regards, MrA

... I wish you every success with your sports betting.

Must go now as i have more important things to do... like descaling the kettle.

Kind regards, Mr A

Good Afternoon lordlucan,

I hope you are well. But I suspect from a “head space” point of view, and responding directly to your post of last week that you may not actually be?

Until now, I appreciate that I have never, ever communicated with you before. Yet despite this you seem to insinuate and/or be under some sort of illusion or stupor that I have been speaking with forked tongue with potential past barbs towards you in the last few weeks? As any sane or rational person can see and to ensure 100% unarguable clarity here, I have copied and pasted a couple of sentences from one of my earlier posts of today.

…when I have the time, (I) always respond to any poster who directly communicates with me by name to prevent any potential confusion. I am not one to create perplexity or indeed play amateur mind games of issuing posts to unnamed recipients. Personally I find this (behaviour) particularly weak if not cowardly.

…the standard fit of the occasional disruptors that we have all seen come and go on this board over the years i.e. (is typically) with less than 300 posts, with a join date of less than 2 years.

For those that have positively contributed on this board for more than a handful of weeks, they may remember some of the past occasional disruptors that have thankfully disappeared into the ether including WHITEGHOST, stuart1471 and of course the many pseudonym accounts of the notorious falklandinvestor… but to name a few.

I have just had a quick look at the few posts that you have contributed purely to this Barclays board. I’ve seen zero positive debate from you but have seen a collection of what I can only call tourettic outbursts with no named direct recipients.

You randomly mention something about sports betting and putting in 70/80 hours research a week? I have absolutely no idea the relevance of this statement to me. And in fairness I have no desire to understand your “copper plated dead-cert trust me strategy” of how to win big on a £1 horse accumulator with William Hill. This is the worry of having a clouded and troubled mind it leads to confusion as to the reality of whom you believe you are creating an argument… oops apologies… debate with.

As for your comment of putting your money where your mouth is. A somewhat ironic statement to say the least. Especially on the basis you have not indicated how much you have staked on Barclays be it £5.00, £50.00 or even £500? Why be so coy? Go on… be a big, brave soldier and let us all know. Or do you just enjoy sitting on the fence?

In summary, to add some entertainment, as you suggested that you like to do, I have included a link that I previously used to share with my past undergraduates and students during their very first lecture with me. It relates to understanding personality types and disorders and understanding the individuals you are dealing with. Fingers crossed the link works. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MB-9arU9gPs I wish you ev

Good Afternoon All,

I hope everyone is well on this positive bounce back Monday.

Apologies for the delay on getting back on the board, just had to deal with some more important pressing family stuff.

As an update. in relation to the Troll of last Tuesday, no sooner did they appear in my Private Messaging Inbox (that I have no longer have active), minutes later, they then seemed to then disappear. As confirmed by my automated message response of “Member Unknown”. Hence me posting to the Barclays Board for me to at least have my opportunity to reply.

However, I did still have time to initially click on their Member name and see that they matched the standard fit of the occasional disruptors that we have all seen come and go on this board over the years i.e. with less than 300 posts, with a join date of less than 2 years. I can’t seem to see that searching for Members is a function on this site anymore? Unless anyone can advise otherwise?

Anyway, I would just like to convey a quick thank-you and shout out to those that personally took some time out of their busy days to share their kind words and empathy in relation to last weeks Troll i.e. @razzledaz @Trucks @eastern_investor @Rookie1 and to the other unnamed recommenders. Truly appreciated. God Bless and Good Luck to You All!

For the record, and call me old fashioned, but for all the time I have been on this board you will have seen that I will, when I have the time, always respond to any poster who directly communicates with me by name to prevent any potential confusion. I am not one to create perplexity or indeed play amateur mind games of issuing posts to unnamed recipients. Personally I find this particularly weak if not cowardly.

Hence, @Rookie1 I can assure you that my post of last Tuesday was categorically NOT aimed at you or anyone else apart from the disappearing sad individual. My sincere apologies if you thought that this was the case. Personally, I look forward to your views, which I struggle to disagree with at the moment as they are well thought out and presented.

But to repeat, on this occasion at least, I believe your timing is somewhat premature against the artificial but real direction of the market. We are all at the mercy of the direction of the markets… regardless of what may be happening in the real world.

I am not sure how long you can hold out with your Short, happy to be educated, but still believe a 6 month window remains more likely for the tide to turn. That is to say that once the A.I. Cap-Ex bubble bursts… which it will, is when this over inflated Bull market is likely to metamorphosise into the expected Bear Market. None of us will forget that day when, rather than if, it happens.

Finally, and to paraphrase @razzledaz , now that the sheep has finally jumped the 412p electric fence in some style, fingers crossed that it can remain in the greener grass field setting a higher floor and ceiling trading level range.

Good Luc

Finally…

@ the sad individual, from whom I received an unrequested nasty inbox message. Why not have the common decency to “expose” yourself on the Barclays Board and use the common courtesy of addressing me directly with your messages, to avoid any doubt that it is me that you have “beef” with, so that I can then reply to you accordingly. You really should luck up Manners in the dictionary… assuming you know how to use one? It appears between Maggot and Moron!

For the record, the purpose of me sharing my occasional trades in Barclays is purely for information purposes only. They are not a boast, fantasy, form of advice, guidance, encouragement or persuasion for anyone else to follow.

As I have mentioned before, over many, many years, via the Barclays board, I am not obliged to share my trades but just feel that it may help (even one person), to post them, pretty much as they happen. If nothing else to prove what can go well, what can also potentially go horribly wrong but more importantly what can really happen for an ordinary, average run of the mill punter in the real world!

Many years ago, I decided to open a self-select share ISA, and buy and sell shares within it. Thankfully, with an element of luck more so than skill, I have over those years built up (for me) a substantial tax free ‘lump’ of cash.

Historically, regular repeating statements were previously often seen on this Board by self-confessed “experts” with less than 300 posts, with a join date of less than 2 years, who allegedly bought at the bottom and allegedly sold at the top. Yet the same individual(s) never gave any indication, at the real time, of when their actual trades to buy and sell took place. Strange that? To the contra, my trades, warts and all were shared in the moment as they happened with proven mixed results and emotions.

I confess that I have a very ‘light-touch’ healthy interest in Chartist theory, also known as technical analysis, and often joke to use my Helix Maths Set with a big black thick marker pen as my accuracy is akin to that of trying to hit the bull’s-eye on a dartboard without my glasses!

To conclude, it’s the three G’s for me. Namely, Guesswork, Gut feel and Good Luck in that order. I repeat that I know no more than your neighbours cat… if it could talk.

Please Make Your Own Choices and Good Luck One and All.

Regards, MrA

Good Evening One and All,

@Robbo24, Absolutely nothing wrong with your circa average £17k trade amount which is NOT to be sniffed at. I believe there is some more profit to be made, before this AI capital expenditure bubble explodes! Totally agree with the elusive exit timing. The time to sell, to me, remains almost impossible to gauge correctly, hence (fingers crossed) the old adage of "The profit is made in the buying". Good Luck My Friend.

@eastern_investor, I believe that there is a potential circa 10% short-term uplift to come i.e. on or before the next set of Barclays Results being announced on Tuesday 10th February 2026. Subject to the usual caveats of a journey of plain sailing with NO unexpected Macro and/or UK related “surprises”. I’m hoping that the catalyst for the uplift startswith the BofE Rate decision on Thursday 6th November, followed by the usual Broker upgrades and a potential Santa rally. I wish I could forget the exchanges of the “peak” price of 306p… needless to say that your decision proved to be hugely and profitably correct. Well Done and Good Luck My Friend.

@MrWolf, Good Luck with your bread and butter trades… we all need some lady Luck! Having second thoughts whether to hang out for circa 453p or undertake a few sell high and buy-back low “rinse and repeat trades” when 412p arrives. Especially having seen today’s Low high Swing of 397p to 406p. Hmmm… an R&R trade, if timed correctly would make me circa £3.5k a spin? Enjoy your time away whatever and wherever you may go. Good Luck My Friend.

@M1HV, Congratulations on making and taking a profit. Enjoy! Good Luck My Friend.

@Rookie1, robrennie summarises perfectly i.m.h.o. of what is actually going on at the moment. I have read and heard that there is a huge amount of capital that has “rotated” into Bank Stocks, regardless of the individual Banks’ CEO strategy and more towards the view of where else is “safe” to hold the money, with an element of growth and lower form of risk? Just remember that when funds “rotate in” they can and/or will “rotate out”. I’m not sure how long you can keep a short position live, but I suspect you may be looking at least 6 months before the tide starts to come in. Sell in May (2026) and Stay away? Good Luck My Friend.

@ robrennie. Beautifully put. Good Luck My Friend.

Good Evening Mr Wolf (and One and All), 

I hope you are well my friend. 

As per title, I just couldn't resist today. Again, just set my ‘personal best’ of my biggest ever lump purchase in relation to the sterling value rather than the (43,500) volume of shares.

As always, my purchase is within my ISA so no CGT to be concerned about. 

Anyway, let's see if i can get anywhere close to my usual short term, return of circa 10% to pay for next year’s cruise for the wife!

The positive momentum for both this share and the banking sector as a whole continues. With confirmation that (the smaller UK Bank) IPO of Shawbrook Group Plc has been launched being the catalyst for me to finally jump in with my whole body and both feet!

Good Luck All.

Regards, MrA

PaulSpain,

Congratulations on making and taking a profit. Enjoy!

Regards, MrA

Good Morning Newtothissite,

I hope you are well.

Many thanks for your kind words. I will always try to respond to those that mention me. .

Worryingly, I'm not even sure that "Rachel from Accounts" knows what she will be declaring, yet, during her UK Autumn Budget on Wednesday 26th November?

To respond to your question. I am not here to encourage you or indeed anyone to buy or sell a share. Or indeed talk up a share price or talk down a share as a poster. Especially with the phrase of "trust me"...cringe.

Understanding that there is more than one way to cook an egg. It depends how you trade the shares, your strategy and what you are looking to achieve over what time horizon?

In summary, perhaps consider whether it would be sensible to sell some (and bank the assumed profit) and let the others ride? That way if more upside materialises then clearly you would benefit accordingly. You may also need to understand/consider the level of profit and perhaps tax payable on any eventual sale?

I have in the past used this very basic principle via one transaction to sell a chunk, and keep a chunk, at the same with mixed success.

I wish you all the best whatever you may choose to do.

Good Luck my Friend,

Regards, MrA

Good Evening Eastern (and all),

Looks like your positive steer was on the mark. In fairness the 5% drop and a little more has been returned.

It would appear, according to Bloomberg, that the rotated funds into the Bank Sector and Barclays, like the statement of quarterly buy-backs.

Good luck one and all.

Regards, MrA

Evening Eastern,

Thanks for your post. My gut feel is negative territory tomorrow. I sense more profit taking.

You say heads... I say tails.

Let's see.

Good Luck My Friend,

Regards, MrA