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By Lawrence G. McMillanIvers Riley, a long-term friend and business associate, died February 17th at his home in Savannah, Georgia. I met Ivers in the early 1980's when he was a cofounder of The...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe market has gone dull after making new all-time highs. The chart of $SPX remains bullish, in that it remains above support.Equity-only put-call ratios remain bullish as...
By Lawrence G. McMillanWhen we first wrote about the “$VIX Crossover” system, we only analyzed it from the viewpoint of buy signals.  In the feature article in this issue, there is...
By Lawrence G. McMillanWe have written about crossover signals from the CBOE’s Volatility Indices in the past.  In particular, we want to present research on sell signals generated when $...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market continues to move higher, albeit at a very slow pace. That makes the $SPX chart bullish, of course, and it will remain bullish as long as $SPX holds above...
By Lawrence G. McMillan$SPX has finally broken out to new all-time highs and has maintained that status by closing above the old highs for four consecutive days. That's the bullish news. The less-...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe Standard & Poors 500 Index ($SPX) has finally broken out of the 1990-2065 trading range that had contained it for nearly two months. The breakout was not easily...
By Lawrence G. McMillanNow 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...
By Lawrence G. McMillanLast October, the CBOE changed the way it calculated $VIX – or, as the CBOE put it, the methodology was “enhanced.”  The change was a logical and...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market has had a strong week. Even so, $SPX remains within the general confines of the 1990-2065 trading range, on a closing basis. We still await a breakout from...

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