Nov, 15, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe bears have finally managed to take control of the stock market, mostly due to some worries about upcoming economic and regulatory issues. However, the market has quickly...
Nov, 12, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanPut-call ratios are useful, sentiment-based, indicators. The put-call ratio is simply the volume of all puts that traded on a given day divided by the volume of calls...
Nov, 09, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanWe keep track of “90% days” with a great deal of accuracy. A “90% up day” is, in its purest form, a day when advancing issues outnumber declining...
Nov, 09, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market, as measured by the Standard and Poors 500 Index ($SPX) continues to break down through important support levels. It is the close below 1395 that matters....
Nov, 08, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanStocks are trying to make sense of the election results, the newly bad news out of Europe, and the potentially foreboding “fiscal cliff.” This resulted in some very...
Nov, 06, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanWe occasionally publish charts showing the seasonal pattern of $VIX. Figure 2 below shows the composite price of $VIX for a 23-year history (1989 through 2011). This...
Nov, 02, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanMORRISTOWN, N.J. (MarketWatch) — Ever since the stock market, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index SPX broke down through support late last...
Nov, 02, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanEver since the stock market, as measured by the Standard & Poors 500 Index ($SPX) broke down through support late last month (on October 23rd), the bulls have been...
Nov, 01, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market — as measured by the Standard & Poors 500 Index SPX +1.04% — is struggling to stabilize after last week’s breakdown below support...
Oct, 26, 2012
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe fall of the year is a time when we trade two of our better seasonal patterns – The (month-end) October Seasonal buy and the Heating Oil Gasoline spread. In fact...
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