trade timing signals - using Advance-Decline line tools

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Link to WSJ end of day Market Diary -

https://www.wsj.com/market-data/stocks/marketsdiary

16-months of daily $NYADV in histogram format -

* for each day in August, the # of NYSE Advancing issues remains
below the June and July highs for this internal,
which is potentially a Negative Divergence of importance

http://stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?s=%24NYADV&p=D&yr=1&mn=4&dy=0&i=p09228435053&a=760612625&r=1590534237667

WSJ update for Wednesday August 12, 2020 --

NYSE --- Latest Close --- Previous Close --- Week Ago

Issues traded 3,064 3,068 3,060
Advances 1,867 1,497 2,057
Declines 1,117 1,483 918
Unchanged 80 88 85
New highs 88 118 150
New lows 1 3 4
Adv. volume* 418,897,831 466,412,916 630,742,579
Decl. volume* 341,000,011 471,152,194 246,312,501
Total volume* 770,692,128 955,770,822 890,512,755
Closing Arms (TRIN)† 1.45 1.00 0.80
Block trades* 4,637 5,606 5,715
Adv. volume 2,006,285,252 2,416,274,584 3,309,513,418
Decl. volume 1,742,687,544 2,397,769,666 1,188,700,280
Total volume 3,811,162,560 4,889,498,489 4,565,525,924