By Lawrence G. McMillanThere are some longer term seasonal patterns that affect the stock market. One is that years ending in ‘5’ have generally been quite bullish since the first one in 1895 (...
By Lawrence G. McMillanWhen the government announced that they were going to begin instituting tariffs, the market went into a quick nosedive, from which it has mostly recovered. But the fact is that...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThis article was originally published in The Option Strategist Newsletter Volume 23, No. 22 on December 1, 2014. This is a subject that we will likely be writing...
By Lawrence G. McMillanHere’s a table that was printed on Bloomberg this week. It shows the percentage of equity options and index options (and total) that each U. S. Option exchange trades....
By Lawrence G. McMillanI thought we’d take a look at one of these covered writing ETFs that did not have to do with such volatile things as Bitcoin or AI. TSLY, the one on Tesla (TSLA)...
By Lawrence G. McMillanA week ago, $SPX was trading at new all-time highs for two consecutive days. While the breakout wasn't all that strong, it was a breakout. However, on Monday, January 27th, the...
By Lawrence G. McMillanWe wrote an article last week regarding the Microstrategy (MSTR) covered writing ETF (MSTY). The only addition there is to that information right now is that we observed...