FTSE for Friday: blue-chip index breaks this trendline
After a strong rally from the April lows to record highs, the UK market is once again lagging US peers. Independent analyst Alistair Strang forecasts what happens next.
26th September 2025 07:51
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
Our FTSE for Friday is a bit difficult this week due to the UK index appearing to be enjoying a little nap. It was difficult to exercise restraint by not showing the closing price chart since the start of September. The FTSE 100 appears to be losing interest, now slinking below the Red uptrend.
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The immediate situation for the FTSE isn’t great as traffic below 9,203 points risks promoting reversal to an initial 9,160 and a very possible short-lived bounce.
But we’d expect 9,160 to break, giving access to a bottom around 9,108 points and a proper rebound, always assuming your fingers are properly crossed! If triggered, 9,238 looks like a viable stop loss position.
The index requires movement above 9,267 points, giving the probability of a lurch upward to 9,307 points with our secondary, if beaten, at 9,351 points.
Have a good weekend.
Source: Trends and Targets. Past performance is not a guide to future performance.
Alistair Strang has led high-profile and "top secret" software projects since the late 1970s and won the original John Logie Baird Award for inventors and innovators. After the financial crash, he wanted to know "how it worked" with a view to mimicking existing trading formulas and predicting what was coming next. His results speak for themselves as he continually refines the methodology.
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