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 Thursday August 13, 2020 --

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

Issues traded 3,074 3,064 3,060
Advances 1,246 1,867 1,460
Declines 1,750 1,117 1,497
Unchanged 78 80 103
New highs 59 88 113
New lows 3 1 6
Adv. volume* 247,162,660 418,897,831 326,707,746
Decl. volume* 449,415,499 341,000,011 421,921,059
Total volume* 712,518,051 770,692,128 773,628,701
Closing Arms (TRIN)† 1.23 1.45 1.27
Block trades* 4,564 4,637 4,877
Adv. volume 1,230,573,793 2,006,285,252 1,765,405,029
Decl. volume 2,129,282,805 1,742,687,544 2,295,331,997
Total volume 3,459,547,851 3,811,162,560 4,189,148,337