Apr, 21, 2014
By Lawrence G. McMillanAs subscribers know, the CBOE created the Short-Term Volatility Index ($VXST) earlier this year. It is a 9-day average volatility as opposed to a 30-day average...
Apr, 18, 2014
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market abruptly ended its decline of a week ago and rallied all week. Wednesday's strongly higher opening turned into an overall bullish day, and as a result a number...
Apr, 15, 2014
By Lawrence G. McMillanWe are back on a normal publishing schedule for the next two issues. However, due to travel commitments in May, there will only be one issue of The Option Strategist that...
Apr, 14, 2014
By Lawrence G. McMillanRecently, the difference between the two breadth oscillators that we follow moved to a rare, extreme differential. Buy signals were generated shortly after that. We have...
Apr, 11, 2014
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market has taken on a potentially bearish tone, although all the pieces are still not in place. But now that 1840 level has given way, the bears finally seem to...
Apr, 10, 2014
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe upward market reversal that began on Tuesday when $SPX bottomed near the 1840 area, continued with passion on Wednesday. The rally was aided by the benign Fed minutes...
Apr, 07, 2014
We all know that trading options is exciting, highly competitive, and can be very profitable. The key to long term and consistent profits in option trading is options education. The McMillan...
Apr, 04, 2014
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe broad stock market, as measured by the Standard & Poors 500 Index ($SPX) made new all-time intraday and closing highs on consecutive days this week. That, coupled...
Mar, 28, 2014
By Lawrence G. McMillanThis issue was published one day early, on Wednesday, March 26th. This is because of the AAPTA Conference in Austin (see page 10), to which I will be traveling on Thursday,...
Mar, 27, 2014
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe Standard & Poors 500 Index ($SPX) has been bouncing around within a trading range for nearly a month now. There is resistance at 1880+ (the all-time highs) and there...
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