By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market has signaled that whatever was holding it back for the past couple of weeks ("correction" would be too strong of a word) is over. $SPX and all the other major...
By Lawrence G. McMillan This article was originally published in The Option Strategist Newsletter Volume 18, No. 22 on November 26, 2009. No matter how you measure it, volatility is...
By Lawrence G. McMillan The Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. brings about several positive seasonal patterns that are generally worth playing. A number of years ago, we used to trade these...
By Lawrence G. McMillan$SPX remains in a bullish trend, despite breaking one support level this week -- a level which it quickly recovered. There is support at 2557 (Wednesday's low, from which...
By Lawrence G. McMillan This article was originally published in The Option Strategist Newsletter Volume 9, No. 7 on April 13, 2000. The CBOE’s Volatility Index ($VIX) has been a stalwart...
By Lawrence G. McMillan As noted on page 1, a divergence has developed between $SPX (and the other major indices) – which have all been making new all-time highs – and the Russell 2000 ($RUT, IWM),...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThis has been a successful seasonal trade in many years, and the last two years were the second and third best years in our history. We have used this in 23 of the past...
By Lawrence G. McMillanA few of our subscribers have been rather nervous about the fact that the mBB sell signal has not produced immediate results. The sell signal occurred on October 25th,...
By Lawrence G. McMillanYesterday's action was the first time in quite a while that the market has reacted to negative news. An overbought $SPX sold off nearly 30 points on news that the Senate is...
By Lawrence G. McMillanStock prices continue to rise, in general. There does seem to be a slowing of the upward momentum, but considering how overbought the market had gotten, much more was expected...