With news the UK now has a spare “Prince” title lying around, perhaps our King could decide to really impress Mr Trump on his next visit by bestowing him a new title. After all, the UK has a track record of awarding nonsense prefixes to folk who’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve them (ie; Sir Kier Starmer, Lady Mone of Bra-land), tossing a royal title in the direction on the US President could even do some good! There would even be some legitimacy, given his Scottish heritage and love of our country. After all, a glance at the FTSE shows the country is running out of time and will probably need a friend in high places…
With the FTSE now running at around 9760 points, things are getting close to a “logical top”, a point at which we tend expect some reversals. Not necessarily a Bear market, more a case where an artificial excuse is discovered to introduce a sharp 15% drop in the index value. Other markets tend deal with these critical levels in their own fashion, usually by – in the case of the Nasdaq or S&P – the index being gapped over the potentially dangerous area. But with the UK’s traditional adherence to self flagellation being a solution to every problem, we shall not be aghast if some reason is discovered to provoke a short term market problem.
Our concern stems from the expectation of a coming Interest Rate reduction, throwing a reasonable reason for a further excuse for index gains. As a result, the situation now exists where movement above 9,780 should promote gains to an initial 9,821 points with our secondary, if bettered, calculating at 9,908 points. In a sane world, we’d already be concerned at the proximity of these two bigger picture targets as they tend suggest an area where some reversals can be anticipated. Additional, our “Big Picture” high potential now calculates at 10,162 points, an index level where some hesitation almost must occur. Whether reversal to around 8.300 points takes place should be questionable, though visually it even makes an awful lot of sense.
Near term, below 9689 looks capable of triggering reversals to an initial 9644. Our longer term secondary, if broken, works out at 9596 points, though this may require news Princess Kate has changed the colour of her hair to freak the UK media out. Unfortunately, overall such a cycle suggests the chance of a future visit to a bottom of 9475 points.
Tragically, such a reversal dance would be broadly in line with our expectations for the way the FTSE behaves, essentially working hard to pretend “everything is okay, just carry on” and keep the market on its trajectory. While visually this isn’t the worst idea, given the markets growth curve in 2025, our worry is a “business as usual” mindset shall not work for the longer term with the proximity of a market “Top” just above the magical 10,000 point level. If only the UK would mimic the US method of introducing main market gaps to jump above problem areas. While this may sound ridiculous, it works as conventional logic would not allow Wall St to reside at 47,000 points.
FUTURES
FUTURES
| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 11:30:39PM | BRENT | 6405.2 | 6359 | 6339 | 6251 | 6437 | 6678 | 6895 | 7193 | 6425 | |
| 11:35:03PM | GOLD | 4017.2 | 3953 | 3918 | 3875 | 4013 | 4042 | 4082 | 4138 | 3994 | |
| 11:38:34PM | FTSE | 9750.4 | 9686 | 9641 | 9592 | 9738 | 9790 | 9800 | 9838 | 9740 | ‘cess |
| 11:48:23PM | STOX50 | 5692 | 5680 | 5662 | 5638 | 5710 | 5715 | 5731 | 5753 | 5685 | |
| 11:51:18PM | GERMANY | 24113.7 | 24002 | 23936 | 23780 | 24142 | 24226 | 24294 | 24382 | 24114 | Success |
| 11:53:46PM | US500 | 6865.3 | 6819 | 6810 | 6773 | 6869 | 6896 | 6925 | 6960 | 6867 | ‘cess |
| 11:58:17PM | DOW | 47537.3 | 47385 | 47263 | 47006 | 47661 | 48034 | 48218 | 48480 | 47730 | |
| 11:48:38PM | NASDAQ | 26040.6 | 25709 | 25581 | 25356 | 25956 | 26151 | 26320 | 26522 | 25989 | Success |
| 11:52:33PM | JAPAN | 51901 | 51239 | 50894 | 50520 | 51564 | 52020 | 52112 | 52404 | 51781 | ‘cess |
30/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9760 points. Change of 0.04%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,306,885,149 a change of 3.02%
29/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9756 points. Change of 0.62%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,121,713,518 a change of 7.72%
28/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9696 points. Change of 0.45%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,683,126,613 a change of 7.14%
27/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9653 points. Change of 0.08%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,304,536,727 a change of 2.03%
24/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9645 points. Change of 0.7%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,198,860,657 a change of 1.36%
23/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9578 points. Change of 0.66%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,128,914,273 a change of -30.05%
22/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9515 points. Change of 0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,332,238,538 a change of 33.6% 
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:BME B & M Close Mid-Price: 182 Percentage Change: -2.57% Day High: 187.55 Day Low: 181.15
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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 447.85 Percentage Change: + 1.43% Day High: 448.2 Day Low: 439.15
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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 179.8 Percentage Change: + 1.87% Day High: 180.65 Day Low: 175.8
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LSE:DGE Diageo Close Mid-Price: 1733 Percentage Change: -1.28% Day High: 1738 Day Low: 1700
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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 88.82 Percentage Change: + 0.27% Day High: 89.1 Day Low: 87.9
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LSE:PHP Primary Health Close Mid-Price: 94.6 Percentage Change: -0.21% Day High: 95.15 Day Low: 94.2
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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1571 Percentage Change: + 3.63% Day High: 1580.5 Day Low: 1529.5
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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 8.1 Percentage Change: + 1.25% Day High: 8.5 Day Low: 8
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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 462.9 Percentage Change: + 1.27% Day High: 462.4 Day Low: 456.4
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