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The Option Strategist Substack by Lawrence G. McMillan delivers stock market commentary using proven technical indicators, plus in-depth research on timely topics, historical studies, and new trading strategies—all backed by decades of options expertise.
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Larry McMillan Stock Market Update Video 9/28/2026 (opens the original)
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Continuing Theories About This Market (opens the original)
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It is said that a bull market climbs a Wall of Worry. In the modern context, this statement remains true of course, but also encompasses $VIX. In the past weeks, we have published a few articles detailing just how many articles are circulating in the financial media about the forthcoming $VIX explosion. That hasn’t happened yet, by the way, and probably won’t until people get more complacent about the current price of $VIX (and the stock market, as well). Of course, the Wall of Worry extends to
Weekly Stock Market Commentary 9/25/2026 (opens the original)
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This market continues to be one with a huge split between the technical indicators. The market internals (breadth, put-call ratios, New Highs vs. New Lows) remain in terrible shape. However, the $SPX chart itself has regained a positive stance, with last Monday’s gains breaking through the downtrend line that had existed. Moreover, the various indicators surrounding $VIX remain positive.$SPX broke above the downtrend line on its chart (the purple line in Figure 1) and attempted to reach the all-
Weekly Stock Market Commentary 9/18/2026 (opens the original)
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This past week saw further deterioration – by the $SPX Index as well as the internal indicators. Then $SPX tried to snap back with a big rally on Thursday, but it is not all that convincing. On Wednesday, after the FOMC announced that it was raising the Fed rate by 0.25%, stocks sold off. That day, $SPX closed below support at 7560, which was well below the previous support area. That previous support area is marked with two red horizontal lines on the chart in Figure 1. One can see that $SPX cl
Larry McMillan Stock Market Update Video 9/14/2026 (opens the original)
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