My question is what does that telling us. Is the market getting ready to fall apart?
In its simplest form, the McClellan Summation Index measures the intermediate term trend of money flow as represented by the Advance/Decline line. The separation of the postings give you a quick visual of the amplitude of this same money flow trend at any given time.
The recent move below the zero line is part of what is called a "Summation Failure" pattern and this produces "crash like" events as the bulls attempt to hold the current trend and fail to do so (at or near the zero line) and the bears abruptly take control ( by moving below this same line of neutrality).
Since this data is based solely on the A/D line itself, such failures can have different contexts all dependent on the longer term direction of breadth itself. And based on this, no, the market is not "ready to fall apart", but in fact, is closer to completing the correctional process that began earlier this year based on the current data.
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