#FTSE With the FTSE dropping 1,000 points during the past few weeks, we deserve the chance to exhibit our report from last Friday, along with the circled Red bottom at 9,680 points. For one minute on 23rd March, the market reached (and broke) our target before recovering by an impressive 400 points. Our drop target was “out” by 0.1%, an impressive error margin.
The surprising thing about this shoulder dislocation moment, while patting ourselves on the back, is the indication the FTSE may actually be back under control, rather than experiencing reaction to the unknown. Our theory, perhaps heartless, is Iran & Co have decided they want a base price of $94 against Crude Oil, so when the price achieves such a level, an outrageous Press Release to Reuters is sufficient to drive the price of oil back up. Equally, when the price exceeds 101 US dollars (using Brent as our guideline), it’s the time for US President Trump to state Iran is visiting to enjoy a peaceful BBQ on the White House lawn.
It almost feels like the stock markets are acknowledging the chaos in the Middle East is a form of stability. What really surprised us, our sister-in-law has been trapped in Jerusalem during March and informed by the airline a couple of weeks ago it would be around 28th March before she could fly home to Scotland. Her flight landed early today, almost exactly as told, and it begs the question, just how did the airline know?
Needless to say, we shall be popping up to the miserable north of Scotland to catch up on any gossip, a fun 420 mile round trip in a day, probably Saturday. Apparently there was a Patriot Missile emplacement very close to where she was staying…
Can we pull a similar stunt to the above again?
We do this fairly often, rarely bothering to back check our results, but when noticing the low of the FTSE while whipping our RI (Real Intelligence) to generate this comment, it rung a distant bell. This is probably why our Friday report remains the most commonly read thing we produce, a ridiculous number of views from China, the Middle East, and North America, literally in that order. The UK generally slots in just after China but often just above, as we’d expect from our location bias. And thankfully, our chums in Reunion continue to login every Friday.
Staring hard at the FTSE to try and comprehend if the markets are truly performing in accordance with logic, the immediate question is straightforward. Shall movement above 10,120 generate a market lift to an initial 10,191 points? If bettered, our secondary calculates at a confident and smug sounding 10,236 points. This secondary level is important as closure at such a point makes a very useful future attraction from 10,511 present a magnetic influence. Perhas President Trump shall announce his predecessor, Preside Clinton, is arranging the prerequisite number of virgins for a future White House picnic with Iran. But only if they’d stop messing around with the price of oil!
Our alternate, and less happy, scenario is quite horrid. There is now a strong suggestion weakness below 9670 points shall trigger a FTSE visit to 9528 points. If (when) broken, our secondary calculates at a bottom for the FTSE at 9,363 points and hopefully a proper bounce. To be blunt, unless the FTSE makes it above 10,236 points, we suspect it still faces a drop to 9,363 points. To paraphrase the ancient cartoon, “Stingray”, it seems “Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Month”. We suspect April shall not be terribly happy as the FTSE suggests a further 1,000 point fall may be ahead. Our level of 10,236 to rubbish the proposal is key, so worth watching for.
And on the bright side, motor racing returns to telly this week, hopefully the Japanese Grand Prix delivering its usual complement of real entertainment. It is interesting how Red Bull seem to have stopped winning races, since firing their manager, the guy who is married to Ginger Spice. Obviously, the teams previous success had absolutely nothing to do with Christian Ginger Spice Horner’s team curation. So far, the Red Bull team seem to outfitted themselves with entirely the wrong sort of wings.
FUTURES
FUTURES
| Time Issued | Market | Price At Issue | Short Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Long Entry | Fast Exit | Slow Exit | Stop | Prior |
| 11:31:23PM | BRENT | 9982 | 9690 | 9544 | 9317 | 10019 | 10230 | 10354 | 10696 | 9990 | Success |
| 11:33:34PM | GOLD | 4405.49 | 4351 | 4316 | 4243 | 4465 | 4535 | 4694 | 4892 | 4486 | Success |
| 11:36:08PM | FTSE | 9961.4 | 9928 | 9883 | 9822 | 10009 | 10066 | 10135 | 10204 | 10022 | ‘cess |
| 11:43:06PM | STOX50 | 5565.4 | 5526 | 5508 | 5450 | 5592 | 5652 | 5769 | 5899 | 5567 | Success |
| 11:46:05PM | GERMANY | 22592.2 | 22490 | 22111 | 21788 | 22760 | 22910 | 23070 | 23257 | 22570 | Success |
| 11:49:21PM | US500 | 6492.1 | 6472 | 6456 | 6375 | 6514 | 6576 | 6618 | 6667 | 6521 | Success |
| 11:35:44PM | DOW | 46067.4 | 45906 | 45805 | 45493 | 46226 | 46565 | 46760 | 47288 | 46300 | |
| 11:38:10PM | NASDAQ | 23634.1 | 23566 | 23248 | 22816 | 23755 | 24040 | 24228 | 24448 | 23856 | Success |
| 11:44:16PM | JAPAN | 52604 | 52353 | 51728 | 50852 | 52750 | 53483 | 53921 | 54444 | 52843 |
26/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 9972 points. Change of -1.33%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,777,739,669 a change of 15.71%
25/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10106 points. Change of 1.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,721,737,754 a change of -9.66%
24/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 9965 points. Change of 0.72%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,440,227,588 a change of -27.54%
23/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 9894 points. Change of -0.24%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,268,753,932 a change of -47.55%
20/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 9918 points. Change of -1.44%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 19,578,284,329 a change of 84.81%
19/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10063 points. Change of -2.35%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 10,593,978,868 a change of 34.88%
18/03/2026 FTSE Closed at 10305 points. Change of -0.94%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,854,191,076 a change of -1.67% 
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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