Rally Lacks Breadth – A Bad Sign In Recent Years

On the NYSE up issues accounted for less than 40% of the total issues traded. This only the 3rd time since 1970 that the up issues % was below 40% while the S&P 500 rose at least 1%. I ran a study tonight that looked at other times the market had risen at all when the Up Issues % was less than 40%.

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