Product Details

• Actors: Larry McMillan
• Directors: Kate Glibert
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 10, 2003
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1592800459
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #586,746 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An how to use implied volatility lecture, July 13, 2003

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Etienne Lorenceau (Bethesda, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Option Trading Indicators and Patterns for Increasing Profits with Larry McMillan (DVD) (DVD)

In this DVD, Larry McMillan, a recognized expert of option trading, shows why and how the Implied Volatility of a security (compared to its own past) is an essential tool in option trading. It explains ways to implement for using it when trading options, and free sources for getting the needed information.
The DVD is very clear and detailed on this Implied Volatility topic (but not thorough). It also supplies some insights on the Put/Call Ratio. Its focus allows to describe it as an "advanced" lecture. Yet there is no need to be a mathematician or an otions expert to fully understand the demonstrations.
Even if the lecture refers to free internet sources, some statements (reference to daily money weighted indicators) are clearly made to let us subscribe to Mr McMillan's site where money weighted data are available (...and after all why not?). Implied volatility is not shown in its relation to historical volatility (see Natenberg's DVD for that).
The remaining feeling at the end is that Mr McMillan is sharing some precious knowledge but not his enthousiasm for options trading. He clearly knows what he is talking about, but is clearly holding back. He probably owes us a sequel in DVD form as well.
The clarity of the graphs is sometimes forcing us to stop the DVD to really understand what they say (but isn't this exactly why we buy DVD rather than videos).
It still is definitely worth buying: it can be classified as "Advanced" on options and as "basic" to "intermediate" on implied volatility. I liked the "how to" approach as opposed to traditional conceptual analysis, but this is personal taste.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Another Repeat, November 27, 2009

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Keith "SkydivingNerd" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Option Trading Indicators and Patterns for Increasing Profits with Larry McMillan (DVD) (DVD)

Just like his "4 Powerful Rules" DVD, 95% of this DVD
is a repeat of the material on his "Volatility Primer"
DVD. These three DVDs are marketed as being different
material but they're all pretty much the same. I'm
very disappointed that someone with the stature of
Larry McMillan would seek to make money off of aspiring
traders this way.