The FTSE 100 Index is a share index of 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The total market cap as of April 2022 was £1.996trillion. It was launched on the Stock Exchange in 1984 by the FTSE group at an IPO price of 1650. Over the last three decades, long-term investors in FTSE 100 have seen its price reach an all-time high of 7900 which occurred in May 2018.
Enter COVID-19. FTSE 100 had been ranging pre-Covid after the all-time high in 2018. In March 2020, the price fell as low as 4800 which could have been a result of the slump in stocks across the world during that time. Following the lockdown ease, price rallied back above 7500 which was close to the all-time high of 7900 in 2018.
Since the beginning of 2022, the highest opening price on the monthly chart is 7523 which was in February 2022. The worst close also was in February 2022 at 7388. RSI gave no indication that price has been overbought both on the weekly and monthly charts. Price is currently in the upper region of the Bollinger Bands on the longer timeframes. A breakout to the upside might occur as price looks to hit a new all-time high at a psychological level of 8000.
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