#FTSE #GOLD Rolls Royce shares have been mucking around since the start of this year, pretending to be rangebound between 12 quid and 13 quid. Perhaps in a couple of days, the share shall exhibit a proper sense of direction, needing only above 1307p to introduce the concept of even further growth being ahead. To a degree, the share price has been in “difficult” territory since May 2025. In April 2025, we’d produced 856p as a “top” target, a price level we’d some difficulty in calculating above. By the end of May, the share price closed above our 856p, entering uncharted territory and grudgingly increasing in price by over 50%!
It has been pretty impressive and perhaps a reflection on the companies work with nuclear power, their modular reactors already approved for us in the USA and going through the mill in Europe. We like the idea of a couple of big lorries turning up beside one of the record breaking potholes which litter UK roads, lowering a garden hose into the pothole puddle to draw off water to turn to steam. It’s easy to forget Nuclear power is “just” a modern steam engine, only instead of wood, coal, or oil fires supplying the heat, we’ve atoms bumping off each other, boiling water, creating steam, then turning a wheel to generate electricity. Then again, the big lorries may prefer lower their garden hose into a lake or river as this should give longer supply of product than found in local potholes here in Argyll.
Regardless, more power to Rolls Royce as their small modular reactors should become the smartest tool in the box to dismantle windfarms. It’s almost funny, listening to traditional left wing politicians such as the UK’s Corbyn, change their stance and favour nuclear as the way forward.
Currently, with a financial report due on the 26th of this month, there’s a reasonable chance Rolls Royce shall display another upward surge. Certainly, since January 13th, the market has almost hired a billboard saying “The £13 Level is Sacrosanct” and therefore, anything above the prior high of 1307p should be significant, allowing for movement to an initial 1328p with our secondary, if bettered, at 1373p. Overall, from a Big Picture perspective, we can introduce a potential high of 1420p, this being the point we can once again no longer calculate above. As shown historically with our 856p level, the concept of “maximum” means nothing to the market where Rolls Royce is concerned, other than the possibility of introducing a price level which may cause hesitation for a few days – or hours!
As always, we must speculate on the curse of the final paragraph, asking “what happens if RR stumbles below £12 quid?”
In such a scenario, below 1200p risks triggering reversal to an initial 1144p with our secondary, if broken, at 1088p. For now, we feel more gains are expected. Soon.
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| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 10:37:14PM | BRENT | 6695.2 | |||||||||
| 10:42:08PM | GOLD | 4877.89 | 4841 | 4810 | 4731 | 4911 | 4945 | 4979 | 5025 | 4902 | ‘cess |
| 10:46:34PM | FTSE | 10566.7 | 10483 | 10445 | 10398 | 10528 | 10587 | 10614 | 10693 | 10524 | Success |
| 10:49:40PM | STOX50 | 6024.7 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 10:52:48PM | GERMANY | 25008.3 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 10:54:52PM | US500 | 6838.6 | |||||||||
| 10:57:26PM | DOW | 49508.7 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:01:03PM | NASDAQ | 24658.1 | ‘cess | ||||||||
| 11:03:14PM | JAPAN | 56990 | Success |
17/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10556 points. Change of 0.79%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,541,923,736 a change of 30.7%
16/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10473 points. Change of 0.26%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,005,351,962 a change of -53.38%
13/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10446 points. Change of 0.42%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,736,069,118 a change of 25.25%
12/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10402 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,571,766,423 a change of 6.33%
11/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10472 points. Change of 1.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,061,814,273 a change of -0.89%
10/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10353 points. Change of -0.32%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 8,133,860,971 a change of 2.3%
9/02/2026 FTSE Closed at 10386 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,950,643,906 a change of 17.72% 
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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