As much as we prefer to look at the long term behavior of the advance/decline indicator, how can you not focus on its shorter term behavior when you are long a market that’s making new highs? The health of the S&P 500 index looks terrible as measured by net advances (advances minus declines) on a daily basis. This is not a typical bull market behavior. The fact that we are witnessing negative net advances when the market is supposedly the strongest it has ever been is a screaming anomaly.
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