Sometimes, glaring at market movements in an attempt to elicit potential movements just doesn’t work. Currently, the FTSE is in such a humourless situation, our software tending to prefer giving giving “safe” predictions which frankly, are useless. When this sort of thing starts to occur, we zoom out and look at the big picture, trying to figure out if the index is suffering from some sort of historical effect.
It turns out this is probably the case as, when we look back in time to the “fun” year which was 2020, a situation was created which suggested the potential of some market stutters around the 8765 level. This, very oddly, appears to be happening though it is hard to comprehend why the absurd market drop literally 5 years ago, should be contributing to our current confusion. With shares, it is understandable as folk who invested while trying to pick bottom, generally are delighted to get their money back, once an investment finally turns to real profit. From a Big Picture perspective, we count this as a halfway point and for the FTSE, this works out roughly halfway to an overall target of 10156 points.
Visually, it appears we may be correct, the recovery from a market low of 4900 creating such a punctuation mark in the FTSE at 8765 and there’s no doubt the index is currently bouncing a bit above and a bit below the target level, like trying to nail exactly 30mph when a police car is behind you!
If we’re right and adhere strictly to our software rules, it’s apparently the case where above 8765 should now power market movement to 8849 next with our secondary, if bettered, at 8928 points. These numbers are quite serious, though bare no immediate resemblance to the state of market futures, while writing this. The FTSE closed Thursday at 8756 points, pleasantly close to our trigger level, but currently (4am Friday) market futures are sitting at just 8697 points. Something, perhaps the UK Prime Ministers visit to the White House, is causing quite severe FTSE Future reversals. Maybe the UK Prime Minister was photographed on his knees, apologising for his behaviour and promising to be a better person in future. It was all a sharp contrast to the French President Macron, who Mr Trump didn’t even bother meeting when his motorcade arrived.
Regardless, FTSE Futures have lost 60 points overnight which does not bode well for Friday.
Presently, it feels like FTSE movement below 8680 should now trigger reversals to an initial 8579 with our secondary, if broken, a less likely 8336 points.
Have a good week and cheer up. It’s only 3 weeks until Formula 1 is back on telly.
FUTURES
FUTURES
| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 9:54:31PM | BRENT | 7327 | 7314 | 7301 | 7276 | 7348 | 7374 | 7690 | 7450 | 7340 | Success |
| 9:58:20PM | GOLD | 2876.85 | 2876 | 2866 | 2836 | 2888 | 2898 | 2904 | 2916 | 2882 | |
| 10:12:54PM | FTSE | 8731.5 | 8700 | 8674 | 8644 | 8745 | 8785 | 8810 | 8839 | 8722 | ‘cess |
| 10:43:22PM | STOX50 | 5432 | 5428 | 5408 | 5366 | 5458 | 5480 | 5497 | 5520 | 5450 | ‘cess |
| 10:51:53PM | GERMANY | 22402.7 | 22378 | 22215 | 22008 | 22500 | 22580 | 22636 | 22724 | 22460 | |
| 10:57:16PM | US500 | 5867.9 | 5860 | 5831 | 5726 | 5906 | 5965 | 5995 | 6040 | 5927 | |
| 11:01:03PM | DOW | 43257 | 43224 | 43072 | 42798 | 43390 | 43772 | 43913 | 44142 | 43550 | Shambles |
| 11:07:41PM | NASDAQ | 20613 | 20535 | 20248 | 19581 | 20786 | 21110 | 21233 | 21466 | 20902 | Success |
| 11:11:19PM | JAPAN | 37701 | 37556 | 37459 | 37111 | 37793 | 38129 | 38366 | 38637 | 37960 | ‘cess |
27/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8756 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,518,268,288 a change of 21.01%
26/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8731 points. Change of 0.73%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,212,854,759 a change of -4.11%
25/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8668 points. Change of 0.12%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,478,870,440 a change of 6.36%
24/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8658 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,091,356,449 a change of 2.58%
21/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8659 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,938,081,458 a change of 0.78%
20/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8662 points. Change of -0.57%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,892,381,883 a change of 10.17%
19/02/2025 FTSE Closed at 8712 points. Change of -0.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,348,624,853 a change of 11.87% 
SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.
Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION
Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.
UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.
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Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares
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LSE:AML Aston Martin Close Mid-Price: 85 Percentage Change: -12.37% Day High: 96.7 Day Low: 84.4
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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 546.8 Percentage Change: + 4.19% Day High: 548.2 Day Low: 524.6
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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 912.3 Percentage Change: + 0.07% Day High: 917.7 Day Low: 906.9
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LSE:ITM ITM Power Close Mid-Price: 28.7 Percentage Change: -1.98% Day High: 29.6 Day Low: 28.56
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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 470.9 Percentage Change: + 0.84% Day High: 471.2 Day Low: 464
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LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc Close Mid-Price: 273 Percentage Change: -18.07% Day High: 341.6 Day Low: 268.9
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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 731.6 Percentage Change: + 15.94% Day High: 760.8 Day Low: 710.2
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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1264.5 Percentage Change: + 1.28% Day High: 1262 Day Low: 1236.5
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