The Bullish Percent Index (BPI) The indicator helps you know the market's health and when it's overbought or oversold By: Bonnie Gortler | January 2, 2024
• The Bullish Percent Index (BPI), developed by Abe Cohen in the 1950s, is a breadth indicator based on the number of stocks based on Point and Figure Buy signals. The indicator helps you know the market's health and when it's overbought or oversold.
When the bullish percent index is above 70%, the market is overbought, and when the indicator is below 30%, the market is oversold. Like other overbought indicators, sometimes it does not get as high or as low.
In 2022 and 2023, the indicator reached 70 (overbought) six times (red circles). All occurrences were near market peaks (red lines). The BPI fell closing today (1/2/24), at 78.80 (purple circle). A reading over 70, followed by a retracement below 70, would give a sell signal on this indicator.
Information posted to this board is not meant to suggest any specific action, but to point out the technical signs that can help our readers make their own specific decisions. Caveat emptor! • DiscoverGold
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