Choosing The Right Hotel Or Combination

Readers of my blog know that I like to take long driving vacations. And with Christmas approaching the family will be driving over the river and through the woods to Grandma’s house. It gets you thinking about hotels, which naturally leads to a peek at their charts. Here are a couple mixed and matched that are at an interesting point.

Choice Hotels (CHH)
Choice Hotels (CHH) has looked good since it put in a Bullish Kicker candle pattern in the beginning of June. With a 4 month rounded consolidation after the 4 steps higher, it is approaching the previous top at 33.58. The zoomed in picture reveals a bullish flag over the last 3 days with a Measured Move higher to 34.80 on a break over the top. It has support for another leg up from the bullish Relative Strength Index (RSI) and the positive Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator (MACD). This stock looks ready to start the next run higher.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts (HOT)

Starwood Hotels & Resorts (HOT) is at a different type of crossroads. Having bounced off of a bottom November 15, it has retraced 38.2% of the move lower, a key Fibonacci level, which happens to coincide with the 50, 100 and 200-day Simple Moving Averages (SMA). This is a recipe for a pullback or at least consolidation.

The RSI has not been able to get into bullish territory yet but the MACD is diverging, pointing higher. In this name the reaction is what is important. A move over all of the SMA can be bought using the Fibonacci level as a stop, while failure here and a move under 52.50 carries a Measured Move lower to 43.50.

CHH vs HOT

Put the two together, like in the ratio chart of CHH vs. HOT above, and an interesting idea emerges. The ascending triangle with a top at 0.62 yields a target 0.66 and then 0.68 on a breech higher, or a 9.6% move. A break below would be set up to retest 0.54, also a near 10% move. Trading this pair, either long 5 shares of CHH against short 3 shares of HOT on a break higher or, on a break lower, short 5 shares of CHH against long 3 shares of HOT can give a large return in a low risk way.

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