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By Lawrence G. McMillanWe have written about the Total put-call ratio many times in the past, so I am not going to get too involved with the explanation of the system, but I did want to show a recent...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe market broke down through support this week. $SPX retraced all the way to 1810, the January intraday lows. The $SPX chart remains negative, with a downtrend in place and...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe CBOE is introducing two new variations on volatility products.  The first is that there will be weekly $SPX options expiring on Wednesdays (“Wednesday weeklys” is what...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe current year started off in a very similar manner to 2008, with the market dropping sharply through the Martin Luther King holiday.  The year 2008 surely conjures up...
By Lawrence G. McMillanStocks continue to have trouble rallying, but at least support has shown up in the 1870 area of $SPX. If that level is broken on a closing basis, it would mark the end of any...
By Lawrence G. McMillanA “modified Bollinger Band” (mBB) buy signal is nearly upon us.  It almost occurred today (Thursday, January 13th), but missed by a couple of points.  We began to...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe market has finally stabilized to some extent.  Even though $SPX had wide swings in the past week, there was a net gain over the past five trading days.There is strong...
By Lawrence G. McMillanComposite Implied Volatility (CIV) – for an individual stock – is calculated by weighting the individual implied volatilities of each option that traded on that stocks, by...
By Lawrence G. McMillanA “modified Bollinger Band” (mBB) buy signal is nearly upon us.  It almost occurred today (Thursday, January 13th), but missed by a couple of points.  We began to...
By Lawrence G. McMillanStocks remain under extreme pressure, but it finally looks like the oversold conditions are starting to have some effect. An oversold rally is now underway.You can see, in...

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