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 Monday August 17, 2020 --

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

Issues traded 3,077 3,068 3,062
Advances 1,529 1,493 2,172
Declines 1,452 1,448 827
Unchanged 96 127 63
New highs 91 44 123
New lows 11 7 5
Adv. volume* 329,720,998 391,758,294 654,943,585
Decl. volume* 406,787,464 311,800,302 203,364,011
Total volume* 744,530,105 714,838,854 863,983,509
Closing Arms (TRIN)† 1.31 0.71 0.79
Block trades* 4,731 4,258 4,982
Adv. volume 1,549,861,644 1,888,105,055 3,368,536,304
Decl. volume 1,929,232,623 1,298,713,163 1,009,158,778
Total volume 3,516,983,583 3,244,527,076 4,407,585,498