NatWest shares and the level that remains a viable trigger
A share price pause continues, but independent analyst Alistair Strang believes there's still hope for the high street bank's share price ahead of annual results on Friday 13th February.
26th January 2026 07:44
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
At the start of the year, we gave some criteria for happy days for NatWest's share price, criteria which has been utterly ignored while political drama intruded, giving pretend reasons for stock market hesitation.
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Though NatWest ignored our 670p trigger, it remains a viable trigger level which should allow us to demand a festival, due to fireworks pointing at an initial 683p with our secondary, if exceeded, now calculating at a happier 702p.
In fact, once the share price closes above 670p, we shall regard a future 786p as exerting an attraction in the long term.
Our alternate scenario, if the share price now stumbles below 644p, a visit to 633p looks possible with our secondary, if broken, at 622p and hopefully a bounce.
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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