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The bull put spread and the bear call spread are credit spreads.

These trades bring money into your account, which ultimately becomes a profit if the stock price reaches or exceeds the targeted level at expiration. These trades are typically short-term trades that seek to capture the credit as soon as reasonably possible.

The maximum profit is the amount of the credit spread.

To get a suitable risk to reward ratio in a weekly vertical spread, it is often necessary to do a credit spread with the short leg strike being in-the-money. This means that the price of the underlying stock or ETF will need to move rather quickly in a favorable manner in order to achieve the maximum profit. The possible of such a price move within the brief lifetime of the option needs to be weighed against the profit potential of the spread.