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By Lawrence G. McMillanThe general market, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, broke down badly this week, smashing through previous support at 1,120 and 1,100, and registering...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThese oversold rallies are unbelievably strong – especially this one, which was preceded by three of four days in the “90% down day” category.  Yesterday...
By Lawrence G. McMillan...The equity-only put-call ratios have rolled over to sell signals, and that is a major technical factor, in my opinion.  Technically, the standard ratio was not yet a...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe CBOE has created “variance strips,” which is a way in which you can trade entire strips of $SPX options that are constructed according to the formula for...
By Lawrence G. McMillanSource: CFE-CBOEEconomic and technical worries have seemed to keep VIX at generally high levels for the entire last month. VIX has generally remained above 30 since first...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe main feature of the current market is high volatility. Even though $SPX has been contained within essentially an 80- to 100-point trading range (bound by 1100-1120 on the...
By Lawrence G. McMillanOne often feels that the current market conditions are more difficult than he’s seen before, even though they’re usually not.  It’s just that the past...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, remains volatile within a trading range. It reverses direction at will, and hasn’t been able...
By Lawrence G. McMillan...The two back-to-back “90% down days” of last week need to be worked off, and that seems to be happening  at the current time.  So far, over the last...
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe market has quickly become extremely oversold again, and thus short-lived rallies are possible.  In the bigger picture, bears see a break of the recent uptrend dating...

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