there isn't anything in Desmond's article about Hulbert. Not sure why you said that but it's probably not important.
The point is - Hulberts article looks at volume only. Desmond's looks at both volume and point change on individual components of an index and warns against situations where you only get one.
The Street columns had more to do with market tops but contained a lot of similar ideas.
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