Oct, 29, 2015
By Lawrence G. McMillanNote that there are three weeks between newsletters, since there are five Thursdays in October. The next issue will be published on Thursday, November 12th, and of course...
Oct, 26, 2015
By Lawrence G. McMillanEveryone knows that stocks can gap by huge amounts on earnings reports. Who in their right mind would want to sell such straddles? We touched on this subject in the last...
Oct, 23, 2015
By Lawrence G. McMillanEarlier this week, it appeared that the rally that began at the end of October was lagging. But then Thursday, the market blew through resistance at 2040 and reaffirmed the...
Oct, 16, 2015
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market has taken on a much more bullish tone since the late- September lows. We had several buy signals on September 30th, and they were well-timed. The...
Oct, 12, 2015
Lawrence G. McMillan was recently interviewed by bestselling author Michael Covel's Trend Following podcast where he discusses his various facets of options trading. Larry dishes on his early days at...
Oct, 09, 2015
By Lawrence G. McMillanA week ago, we noted that there were three short-term, oversold buy signals. Now, more buy signals are occurring, and these are of the intermediate-term variety. The last...
Oct, 09, 2015
By Lawrence G. McMillanWe have been having a good amount of success with our event-driven straddles this year – especially with the pre-earnings straddle buys. We have refined that technique...
Oct, 02, 2015
By Lawrence G. McMillanDespite a couple of rough days this week, buy signals have emerged from our short-term oversold indicators, and so we have a more bullish outlook for the short term but not...
Sep, 25, 2015
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe $SPX chart remains bearish. During the oversold rally that failed at the 2000 level, an upward trend line had developed on the $SPX chart, connecting the daily lows since...
Sep, 25, 2015
By Lawrence G. McMillan There are several seasonal trades that we use in the fall of the year – primarily the “October seasonal,” the “Post-Thanksgiving Trade.” and the “Heating Oil – Unleaded Gas...
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