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 Tuesday August 18, 2020 --

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

Issues traded 3,068 3,077 3,068
Advances 1,172 1,529 1,497
Declines 1,820 1,452 1,483
Unchanged 76 96 88
New highs 100 91 118
New lows 11 11 3
Adv. volume* 257,990,197 329,720,998 466,412,916
Decl. volume* 495,553,133 406,787,464 471,152,194
Total volume* 770,454,242 744,530,105 955,770,822
Closing Arms (TRIN)† 1.24 1.31 1.00
Block trades* 4,788 4,731 5,606
Adv. volume 1,253,857,572 1,549,861,644 2,416,274,584
Decl. volume 2,423,867,269 1,929,232,623 2,397,769,666
Total volume 3,726,261,286 3,516,983,583 4,889,498,489