Best Financial Markets Analysis Article The NYAD tracks market breadth on a daily basis. It is simply a sum total of the number of advancing stocks, on the day, minus the number of declining stocks. When there are more advances than declines it’s a positive number. When not, it’s a negative number. One can chart the cumulative total of the daily A/D numbers over a period of time. This is important information for investors.

During bull markets advances continually outpace decliners as buyers push most stocks higher. As a bull market unfolds cumulative breadth rises as illustrated by the monthly chart below. It also declines, naturally, as a bear market unfolds.

A bull market in the NYAD unfolds like a bull market in equities with some subtle differences. And, these differences is what makes this index of market breadth most valuable. Most market technicians would agree, in the early and middle stages of a bull market most stocks rise in price. Yet, in the late stages of a bull market buying becomes more selective as less and less stocks participate. In OEW terms, this more selective buying arrives during the fifth wave of a bull market. In the past this index has helped confirm bull market fifth waves in 1987, 1990, 2007 and to some extent 2000. Using the 2002-2007 bull market we’ll demonstrate the normal characteristics in this index.

Starting at the stock market price low in October 2002 the NYAD starts to trend just like the stock market. Only OEW can identify these trends quantitatively. As the bull market unfolds in equities each uptrend in the NYAD rises to a higher and higher level. What is interesting is that the NYAD also unfolds in a five wave sequence, albeit slightly different than the equity market. The reason for these differences is that the NYAD is tracking uptrends/downtrends in bull markets, but the strength of these trends differ in intensity as the bull market unfolds.

In our example you will observe during the last uptrend of the equity bull market, August – October 2007, the NYAD failed to make a new high. This negative breadth divergence nearly always confirms the ending of a bull market fifth wave. This is the same exact type of failure that occurred in 1987 and 1990 right at the highs. Now let’s review the current bull market.

Observe, each stock market uptrend has carried this index to higher highs. And, this is continuing as the current uptrend has continually been confirmed by higher and higher cumulative breadth. The OEW count, on the NYAD, suggests this bull market has several more uptrends to go before there should be any signs of an impending top. This coincides with our bull market projection into 2012. When the first negative breadth divergence occurs the bull market in equities will likely be ending. You can track this index along with us using page 6 on this link: http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/Favorites.CServlet?obj=ID1606987. The NYAD, market breadth plain and simple.

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After about 40 years of investing in the markets one learns that the markets are constantly changing, not only in price, but in what drives the markets. In the 1960s, the Nifty Fifty were the leaders of the stock market. In the 1970s, stock selection using Technical Analysis was important, as the market stayed with a trading range for the entire decade. In the 1980s, the market finally broke out of it doldrums, as the DOW broke through 1100 in 1982, and launched the greatest bull market on record.

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