HOLDING THE BREADTH:

Despite Monday's selloff the overall markets' breadth, or advances versus declines is still very strong. Last week saw new highs in the cumulative A/D summation, the McClellan Summation (similar) also broke 1000; it also hit 1560 in June of 2003 after a strong runup, but only to advance for a few more years after the hiccup. The McClellan Oscillator, the weekly number, however, has been declining the past couple weeks to +10.

Markets did hit new highs last week - Nasdaq and S&P 500, and NAS Volume increased over NY (speculative) to a 3-handle. New highs to lows ran above 10 to 1 on both the above indexes.
Other notable extremes: the Investors Intelligence Bears dropped to 15; the gold commercials continue to increase their shorting. Insider selling continues to be huge.
Here are the numbers:

Date>		3/7/2014	2/28/2014
Indices:	DJIA	16452	16321
	NAZ	4336nh	4308nh
	SPX	1878nh	1859nh
WklyVolume (Bshs).	naz/ny	11.0/3.6	10.9/3.7
Specul.Ratio hi=bullish		3.06	2.95
Sentiment:	put/call-CBOE	52	58
VIX>50-alltmlow=8.8		14.1	14
Advance/Dec-NYSE..		1864/1344	1825/1192
Weekly Net:		520	633
Cumulative:		157669	157149nh
Weekly	NYSE hi/low	512/35	457/63
New Hi's/Low's	Nasdaq h/l	500/46	446/50
McClellan	Oscillator	10	42
McClellanSum	.+750/-1000	1050	924
Newsletter	Inv.Intel -Bull:tues	54.6	53.5
Surveys	Bear:-5yrs	15.1	17.2
	AAII  -Bull :wed.	40.5	39.7
	Bear	26.6	21.1
COT:SPX w/w	large/small (net)k	3k/(31k)	6k/(29k)
COT:gold  comm.hedg	long-short.000	(121k)	(117k)*
CEOinsider	selling	40:1	111:1
off.&bd b/s.vs.	10% holder b/s	160:50	200:50
3-box rev	Bullish%-	75	72
US equity -ICI	Fund Flows	WeekDelay	3.1B
MMF flows	Change in $B	(4B)	20B
MargDebt- top (300M)	monthly		451Bnh
ETF:mthlyEqty/	Int'l/Bond-$B		987/377/248
2-yr Tsy Yield: Inflation		0.37%	0.32%
	InsiderTotal:	1265k/32k

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HOLDING THE BREADTH: