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 & September, the # of NYSE Advancing issues remains
below the June and July highs for this internal, which is
potentially a Negative Divergence of importance ... it will likely be an actionable Divergence
at some future date only if the negative condition persists for multiple weeks/months

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 September 1, 2020 --

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

Issues traded 3,085 3,090 3,079
Advances 1,878 899 1,460
Declines 1,120 2,105 1,521
Unchanged 87 86 98
New highs 112 77 80
New lows 16 9 11
Adv. volume* 471,740,316 296,053,844 345,258,810
Decl. volume* 337,326,585 828,294,081 356,206,084
Total volume* 814,002,315 1,131,664,761 713,294,748
Closing Arms (TRIN)† 1.19 1.01 0.95
Block trades* 5,439 5,531 4,746
Adv. volume 2,384,717,178 1,299,541,747 1,803,186,354
Decl. volume 1,691,555,977 3,075,094,999 1,785,429,902
Total volume 4,097,448,391 4,404,523,411 3,640,695,534