Dec, 11, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe CBOE will begin trading Bitcoin Futures with Sunday night’s trading (December 10th). These are the basic facts about the contract, as taken from the website (the CME...
Dec, 08, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillanDespite some selling early in the week (that seemed to be more of a reaction to a short-term overbought condition than to any real change of trend) $SPX still remains well...
Dec, 01, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe post-Thanksgiving seasonal period got off to a rousing start perhaps too rousing. The $SPX chart remains positive as long as it holds above support. The first support...
Nov, 30, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillanTraders are abuzz with the seemingly absurd fact that $VIX is up strongly today (and up for four days in a row), even though the market has risen strongly over that time – and...
Nov, 27, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillanThe stock market has signaled that whatever was holding it back for the past couple of weeks ("correction" would be too strong of a word) is over. $SPX and all the other major...
Nov, 21, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillan This article was originally published in The Option Strategist Newsletter Volume 18, No. 22 on November 26, 2009. No matter how you measure it, volatility is...
Nov, 20, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillan The Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. brings about several positive seasonal patterns that are generally worth playing. A number of years ago, we used to trade these...
Nov, 17, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillan$SPX remains in a bullish trend, despite breaking one support level this week -- a level which it quickly recovered. There is support at 2557 (Wednesday's low, from which...
Nov, 16, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillan This article was originally published in The Option Strategist Newsletter Volume 9, No. 7 on April 13, 2000. The CBOE’s Volatility Index ($VIX) has been a stalwart...
Nov, 15, 2017
By Lawrence G. McMillan As noted on page 1, a divergence has developed between $SPX (and the other major indices) – which have all been making new all-time highs – and the Russell 2000 ($RUT, IWM),...
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