The NYSE Summation index (Ratio Adjusted) is a very good measure of the performance of advancing and declining issues within the NYSE index.

It takes new money or true liquidity to have more advancing stocks than declining stocks, if the new money flow into the stock market slows or stops then NYSE Summation Index (ratio Adjusted) struggles to get over +500 or falls. If this happens over a longer period then this evidence that a stock market top is likely. Sure you may get the NYSE index moving up and down within a 10% range, but the days of 30% gains are very unlikely while the NYSE Summation Index (Ratio Adj) struggles at +500.

This quote is appropriate:

Bernard Baruch.."Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars."

The above quote means, if you have green on the screen, green becomes cash at times like these.

The chart below shows the NYSE Summation index (ratio adj) performance at the two previous market tops. History is repeating. Time to keep an eye on this index.

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Investing Quote...

.."I have yet to find a man, in or out of Wall Street, who is able to make money in (markets) continuously or uninterruptedly. Like anyone else, I have good and bad periods."..

Richard D Wyckoff

Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50 per cent without becoming panic stricken, you should not be in the stock market.

Warren Buffett