Recent Blogs

Feb, 23, 2016

McMillan Article Published in Proactive Advisor Magazine

An abbreviated version of The Option Strategist Newsletter's Is It 2008 All Over Again? artricle was recently published in Proactive Advisor Magazine magazine's. Read the entire article for free...

Feb, 22, 2016

Are Three Consecutive 1% Moves by $SPX Significant? (Preview)

By Lawrence G. McMillanIn the past week, the Standard & Poors 500 Index ($SPX) had a huge rally. Specifically, it rose by more than 1% for three consecutive days – for the first since...

Feb, 19, 2016

Weekly Stock Market Commentary 2/19/16

By Lawrence G. McMillanThe rally has been powerful, but is it just another oversold affair? At this point, we can't really tell. The next resistance area is at 1940-1950, and that's a more crucial...

Feb, 15, 2016

The Total Put-Call Ratio Signal Generated (Preview)

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...

Feb, 12, 2016

Weekly Stock Market Commentary 2/12/16

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...

Feb, 12, 2016

Additions to the Volatility Trading Spectrum

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...

Feb, 08, 2016

Is It 2008 All Over Again? (Preview)

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...

Feb, 05, 2016

Weekly Stock Market Commentary 2/5/16

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...

Feb, 01, 2016

mBB Buy Signals After Extremely Large Market Declines

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...

Jan, 29, 2016

Weekly Stock Market Commentary 1/29/16

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...

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