Now that January is past, most of the seasonal trades are over for this cycle. It was an interesting and somewhat profitable seasonal trading season, but it always behooves a trader or analyst to go over the results of a system while the data is still fresh. This can lead to adjustments – hopefully profitable ones – when the seasonal system rolls around the next time. Furthermore, if no adjustments are needed, it confirms that the system is continuing to work well.
...An astute subscribers noticed that, last week, another $VIX “spike peak” buy signal was setting up. $VIX had risen more than 3.00 points, measured with closing prices, from Jan 9th to Jan 13th (two trading days later). Moreover, $VIX then dropped sharply this past Monday, January 20th, triggering a second signal while the first one was still “open.”
We're proud to announce the latest installment of Lawrence G. McMillan's Intensive Option Webinar series titled "The Secrets Behind McMillan's Trading Systems." This series of 6 webinars will cover each of the major systems we monitor that have been succesffully calling market turns for years. Topics include:
This year, Christmas falls on the 4th Thursday, and the stock market will be open for a half day on Friday, December 26th. We will publish our next issue sometime in the morning of Friday, December 26th.
We are planning a new series of six seminars, one each on the major systems that we use to trade the markets. Each of these had a major profit with buy signals near the October lows, and all have long-term successful track records. Stay tuned for schedules, pricing, and subscription information.
When the tech boom of the 1990's collapsed, the NASDAQ Composite Index ($COMPQ) and other related indices (NASDAQ 100: $NDX) and their ETF’s (QQQ) collapsed as well. The highs that were set in 2000 seemed as if they would never be breached, and they haven’t been – so far. But with nearly everything else having recovered to new all-time highs, one wonders if the same could happen for the NASDAQ indices.
For the record, here are the peaks, peak dates, and current prices:
The feature article discusses a protection technique – collar buying – that is favored by many sophisticated stock owners, including institutional traders.
With the stock market at all-time highs, and many stock holders sitting on large gains, thoughts often turn to options as a hedging technique. For stock owners, there are two ways to provide protection to a portfolio: 1) macro protection, which involves the use of index options to hedge a entire portfolio’s risk, or 2) micro protection, which involves the use of individual options on each stock in the portfolio.
Join Stan Freifeld, Director of Corporate Services and head option mentor at McMillan Analysis Corporation for this complimentary webinar event. Binary Return Derivatives (affectionately known as ByRDs) are now scheduled to begin trading before yearend 2014. This new and innovative product has characteristics that are similar to Puts and Calls but there are also some significant differences. Join Stan as he discusss these new binary options and strategies for trading them.
The fall of the year sees more seasonal trading patterns than the rest of the year. Two more major seasonal trades are discussed in the feature article: the Heating Oil-Gasoline spread, and the Post-Thanksgiving Buy signal. Both have worked well often in the past, although not every year. Recommendations are made for both.
Renowned option analyst and best-selling author Lawrence G. McMillan is proud to announce his latest edition to his Intensive Option series, the Intensive Option Webinars: Volume 1. Containing over 9 hours of valuable information, this USB flash-drive video set features three of McMillan's most popular seminar topics, specifically Volatility Trading, Modern Portfolio Protection, and Speculative Option Trading.
