FTSE for Friday: not looking great for FTSE 100
At the end of a poor week for global stock markets, independent analyst Alistair Strang runs his software for signs of better things ahead.
11th September 2026 07:12
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
For the FTSE 100, one worry for next week comes from the economists who are doubtless advising central banks to increase interest rates, even though the reductions experienced by the UK lagged behind everywhere else. The rate decision is at noon next Thursday.
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Things are not looking great for the FTSE on Friday, movement below 10,592 looking capable of triggering reversal to an initial 10,555 points.
Should such a level break, our longer-term secondary calculates down at 10,515 and perhaps a bounce. But overall, the market is already looking dangerously attracted to a future bottom at 10,413 points.
However, there is a faint light shining in the misery of darkness. For the FTSE 100, should the index clamber above 10,673 points, we can hope for gains to an initial 10,699 points with our secondary, if exceeded, at 10,777 points and an urgent need to revisit our tea leaves.
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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