Jun, 06, 2011
By Lawrence G. McMillanThere seems to be a bit of a hangover from Friday’s action. Despite some potentially positive movement in $VIX, the market can’t seem to rally today. $VIX spiked up...
Jun, 03, 2011
By Lawrence G. McMillanCurrently, the dominant theme of the $SPX chart is its downtrend. There is now resistance at 1330, and above that, at 1345.The equity-only put-call ratios have...
Jun, 02, 2011
By Lawrence G. McMillanBreadth was terrible yesterday, making Wednesday a true 90% down day in terms of “stocks only” data and a 90% down volume day in NYSE terms. This is the first true...
Jun, 02, 2011
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe market has had some very volatile short-term moves in the past few weeks. A strong rally over the past week gave way today to one of the largest down days in quite a while....
Jun, 01, 2011
By Lawrence G. McMillanThis is the second of two articles on weekly calendar spreads. In the last issue, we dealt with some of the complexities of this strategy, and promised to finish the...
May, 27, 2011
By Lawrence G. McMillanA number of bearish signals have arisen over the past two weeks, and the market has declined -- albeit only slightly. The bears have not really capitalized on what have...
May, 26, 2011
VIX Edging Higher: A Warning?By Lawrence G. McMillanThe settlement for the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) May futures contract was 18.02, up by a healthy percentage from the April settlement of 14.86....
May, 26, 2011
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe bears have slowly been gaining strength over the past week. The easiest way to tell is that the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has slowly been trending lower and...
May, 20, 2011
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market was under some pressure entering this week, but a positive intraday reversal on Tuesday has stemmed the bearish tide, and may have turned things bullish once...
May, 19, 2011
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe market was extremely strong on Wednesday, but it is unclear if it was merely a double bonus of a) an oversold condition, and b) a strong commodity market. We have...
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