UK market health & breadth
As of the 2026-08-05 close, 70.1% of the 244 UK companies we could measure were trading above their 200-day average, while 14.3% were overbought on a 14-day RSI and 0.4% were oversold.
Last updated 2026-08-05.
Breadth across the UK market
| Measure | Share | Count | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Above their 200-day average | 70.1% | 171 of 244 | The long-term trend line — the share of the market in a longer-term uptrend. |
| Above their 50-day average | 78.7% | 192 of 244 | The short-term trend line. |
| Overbought (14-day RSI above 70) | 14.3% | 35 of 244 | Momentum stretched to the upside. A count of what has happened, not a forecast. |
| Oversold (14-day RSI below 30) | 0.4% | 1 of 244 | Momentum stretched to the downside. |
| At or within 3% of their 52-week high | 20.1% | 49 of 244 | How much of the market is trading near the top of its own yearly range. |
| At or within 3% of their 52-week low | 0.4% | 1 of 244 | And how much is near the bottom of it. |
| Golden cross in the last 5 sessions | 2.5% | 6 of 244 | The 50-day average crossed above the 200-day — a trend turn watched widely enough to matter. |
| Death cross in the last 5 sessions | 2.0% | 5 of 244 | The same crossing downward. |
Counted across 244 of the 256 UK companies in the catalog — those carrying a technical snapshot for the 2026-08-05 session, after excluding 2 whose price history shows an unadjusted split or scale break. Each row shows its own count, because a company needs 200 sessions of history to have a 200-day average and only 15 to have an RSI.
"At or within 3% of the 52-week high" rather than "new highs": the 52-week high is the highest intraday price of the year, which a closing price almost never matches exactly, so a literal count would report one or two companies on a day most of the market is rising. The same 3% band is what the near-52-week-high screen uses.
Breadth is counted once a night from our own technical snapshot, which is computed from daily-close price history. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled — every figure is a count of companies meeting a stated, fixed condition. Universe: FTSE 350 (London Stock Exchange).
Informational only — NOT financial advice. Breadth describes what prices have already done; it does not predict what they will do next.