Overbought is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Overbought in a sentence
Overbought meaning
Of a stock or commodity market condition: where there has been significant trading bidding up prices to higher levels, levels which seem overextended or excessive on a short-term basis.
Using Overbought
- The main meaning on this page is: Of a stock or commodity market condition: where there has been significant trading bidding up prices to higher levels, levels which seem overextended or excessive on a short-term basis.
- In the example corpus, overbought often appears in combinations such as: overbought territory, overbought and, is overbought.
Context around Overbought
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overbought
- In this selection, "overbought" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, significantly, signalling, extreme, stocks, conditions and situation stand out and add context to how "overbought" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the most overbought stocks in and an extreme overbought region above. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overbought" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overbought
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The RSI is now 70 and signals an overbought situation. (10 words)
The 12x3x3 weekly slow stochastic reading is overbought at 81.15. (11 words)
In terms of overbought, that can be said of our entire market. (12 words)
The retailer manages to keep its prices low, up to 60% less than the recommended retail price, by buying current and past season stock from manufacturers that have produced too much and department stores that have overbought. (37 words)
Bitcoin still has room to run because it was already trading at overbought levels on the longer-term weekly and monthly charts prior to the Israel and Iran escalation and fears of high interest rates longer. (36 words)
The Nikkei's 14-day relative strength index (RSI) - a tool for measuring market momentum - was around 60 on Monday, below the 70 line that most analysts see as signalling overbought conditions. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ackman added on Wednesday that from a supply and demand perspective, long-term Treasuries seemed to be overbought, which could put additional downward pressure on the price of bonds.
Additionally, I called the buy-in level However, the stock is significantly overbought in the near term now.
In early-October the Dollar Index () was very overbought and had just begun to ‘correct’.
In my opinion, the stock is overbought and due for a correction lower.
Plus the market does seem to be overbought, and the market over time is an equal opportunity pain giver, to the bears AND to the bulls.
The 12x3x3 weekly slow stochastic reading is overbought at 81.15.
The most overbought stocks in the energy sector presents an opportunity to go short on these overvalued companies.
The most overbought stocks in the industrials sector presents an opportunity to go short on these overvalued companies.
The most overbought stocks per their 14-day relative strengh index are Anghami (), and Bluegreen Vacations Hold ().
The Nikkei's 14-day relative strength index (RSI) - a tool for measuring market momentum - was around 60 on Monday, below the 70 line that most analysts see as signalling overbought conditions.
The retailer manages to keep its prices low, up to 60% less than the recommended retail price, by buying current and past season stock from manufacturers that have produced too much and department stores that have overbought.
The RSI is now 70 and signals an overbought situation.
The weekly chart for KB Home is positive but overbought with the stock above its five-week modified moving average of $42.23.
Traders look for indicators such as oversold or overbought conditions, trendline breaks, or chart patterns to identify potential reversal points.
What I mean by "overbought" is that there were just too many traders piled into stocks.
Bitcoin still has room to run because it was already trading at overbought levels on the longer-term weekly and monthly charts prior to the Israel and Iran escalation and fears of high interest rates longer.
In addition, the daily RSI momentum indicator has continued to exhibit bullish momentum conditions and has not reached an extreme overbought region (above 70 level).
In terms of overbought, that can be said of our entire market.
The 14-day Relative Strength Index ( demonstrates a balanced condition without overbought.
The stock market is overbought and companies paying dividends make sense now.
Common combinations with overbought
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- overbought territory 7×
- overbought and 6×
- is overbought 5×
- overbought conditions 4×
- in overbought 4×
- most overbought 3×
- overbought stocks 3×
- be overbought 2×
- overbought at 2×
- an overbought 2×