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 19, 2020 --

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

Issues traded 3,081 3,068 3,064
Advances 1,191 1,172 1,867
Declines 1,794 1,820 1,117
Unchanged 96 76 80
New highs 88 100 88
New lows 21 11 1
Adv. volume* 271,555,934 257,990,197 418,897,831
Decl. volume* 468,225,353 495,553,133 341,000,011
Total volume* 765,549,457 770,454,242 770,692,128
Closing Arms (TRIN)† 1.02 1.24 1.45
Block trades* 4,696 4,788 4,637
Adv. volume 1,432,573,920 1,253,857,572 2,006,285,252
Decl. volume 2,197,959,929 2,423,867,269 1,742,687,544
Total volume 3,719,361,312 3,726,261,286 3,811,162,560