Starwood Hotels (HOT) bull put credit spread

Starwood Hotels and Resorts is opening a new W hotel in Bankok. This company is expanding and it appears to be holding at $60.

Meg Massie from Blogging Stocks suggests a January bull-put credit spread below the $45 range.

Might be something to consider to find out more about why she beleives this to be a good play check out —->Starwood Hotels to open W Bangkok

Looking at the chart and the chain the stock is definitely going neutral and the spread is enough to make just over 5% in the next 2 months or so. A little conservative for me but acceptable.

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Gold - how to profit with skyrocketing gold

Gold Futures are skyrocketing so how do you profit from this big bull gold rush? You invest in companies that mine or sell gold Or in our case start placing some Bull Put Credit Spreads on the gold companies.

Here is a list of companies that deal in gold to watch and are optionable. Throw these into your charts and watch them for a few days to get a feeling of what they are doing, be sure to check out support and resistance and place the credit spread trade accordingly.

Gold Companies that are optionable -
AEM
ABX
GG
KGC
NEM
AAUK
AU
CCJ
FCX
GFI
MDU
MDG
PAAS
RGLD

For a more detailed trade check out Brent Archer’s credit spread on GG - A bull put spread below $25 —>Goldcorp (GG) hits 52-week high on surging gold futures

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VLO Credit Spread

Valero (VLO) is an energy stock and Inmoney is suggesting a credit spread, a bull put credit spread. Why, since oil prices seem to be falling back? Because VLO was upgraded!

Here’s the play -

“For a bullish hedged play on this stock, I would consider a November bull-put credit spread below the $60 range….For this particular trade, we will make an 8.7% return in just 6 weeks as long as VLO is above $60 at November expiration. Valero would have to fall by more than 14% before we would start to lose money.”

For more explanation on why Inmoney believes this to be a good trade check out —> Valero Energy (VLO) upgrade trumps lower crude prices

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Continental Airlines Credit Spread

InMoney has choosen a bullish hedge play for Continental Airlines - Check out the story here - Continental Airlines (CAL) higher as crude slides

Here is the play -

For a bullish hedged play on this stock, I would consider a December bull-put credit spread below the $25 range. A bull-put credit spread is an options position that combines the purchase and sale of put options to hedge risk in case the stock doesn’t do what you think but still leverage nice returns. For this particular trade, we will make a 5.3% return in just 11 weeks as long as CAL is above $25 at December expiration. Continental would have to fall by more than 15% before we would start to lose money.

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