FTSE for Friday: on the edge of a new era?
Independent analyst Alistair Strang publishes his latest forecasts for the blue-chip index.
15th August 2025 09:42
The FTSE 100 has remained pretty boring this week, however it looks like, should the index manage to close above just 9,187 points, a new era should prove almost irresistible as market growth to an initial 9,298 looks very possible with our secondary, if exceeded, a longer-term 9,733 points.
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Thanks to the UK index closing at 9,177 points on Thursday, just 10 points short of our trigger level, we are nervous providing a near-term long position potential as things risk moving fast, especially if the Gremlins behind the curtain notice the index is right at the edge of a 500-point surge.
Perhaps cynically, we do expect some bad news will emerge in the coming days to slow things down.
Source: Trends and Targets. Past performance is not a guide to future performance.
Near term, currently below 9,138 looks capable of triggering reversals to 9,097 points with our secondary, if broken, at an eventual 9,068, making it look like there is a conspiracy to keep the market treading water during August.
If triggered, the tightest stop looks like 9,153 points.
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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