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 20, 2020 --

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

Issues traded 3,079 3,081 3,074
Advances 1,189 1,191 1,246
Declines 1,800 1,794 1,750
Unchanged 90 96 78
New highs 54 88 59
New lows 20 21 3
Adv. volume* 234,117,461 271,555,934 247,162,660
Decl. volume* 458,147,639 468,225,353 449,415,499
Total volume* 706,713,799 765,549,457 712,518,051
Closing Arms (TRIN)† 1.30 1.02 1.23
Block trades* 4,777 4,696 4,564
Adv. volume 1,169,129,335 1,432,573,920 1,230,573,793
Decl. volume 2,295,393,287 2,197,959,929 2,129,282,805
Total volume 3,523,638,537 3,719,361,312 3,459,547,851