Lawrence G. McMillan is the author of Options As a Strategic Investment, the best-selling work on stock and index options strategies. He currently authors a unique daily advisory service – Daily Volume Alerts – and also edits and publishes ”The Option Strategist", a derivative products newsletter covering equity, index, and futures options. In these capacities, he is the President of McMillan Analysis Corporation, which he founded in 1991. He has spoken on option strategies at many seminars and colloquiums in the United States, Canada, and Europe. In addition, he is the Portfolio Manager of The Hardel Volatility Arbitrage Fund (a hedge fund), he trades his own account actively, and he manages option-oriented accounts for certain individuals.

Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. McMillan was a proprietary trader at two major brokerage firms – Thomson McKinnon Securities and Prudential-Bache.

He initially worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Whippany, NJ, from 1972 to 1976. Mr. McMillan holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from Purdue University (1968) and an M.S. in applied mathematics and computer science from the University of Colorado (1972).