FTSE for Friday: prospects for blue-chip index after rates decision
After the Bank of England opted to leave interest rates on hold, independent analyst Alistair Strang reveals what his charts tell us about FTSE 100 potentials.
19th September 2025 09:10
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
Concerning the FTSE 100’s immediate future, we are perplexed.
The UK index has experienced a neatly choreographed drop this week, one that looks like it will have trouble escaping the Bank of England’s effect.
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Instead, weakness next below 9,203 points has the potential of provoking a visit to 9,162 points and a very possible bounce.
But should 9,162 points break, the UK index could easily falter down to an eventual 9,107 points and a return to the lows seen at the start of September this year.
If this scenario triggers, a reasonable stop loss looks like 9,245 points.
Source: Trends and Targets. Past performance is not a guide to future performance.
Of course, there’s always the awful risk of going into a weekend with an open position, one that might bite due to whatever world event occurs.
If the FTSE is to make any real attempt to redeem itself, above 9,263 could allegedly trigger recovery to an initial 9,290 points with our secondary, if exceeded, calculating as an extremely unlikely 9,379 points.
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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