Chasing Value: Favorite trades -- UPS - Sheldon Liber

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Chasing Value: Favorite trades -- UPS
Jun 30, 2009 05:00 PM UTC

Sheldon Liber

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Symbol	Sentiment	Start	Return	Closed
UPS		06/30/09	+8.70%	08/13/09

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Filed under: Rants and raves, United Parcel'B' (UPS), Options, Chasing Value, Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2009

For those of you who are able to trade options, I have been writing more and more about naked puts, "selling to open" stock options that I have been doing all year with great returns due to an overabundance of fear.

Yesterday I reviewed one example in Chasing Value: GE -- maybe not eating out of trash cans after all, and today I review some of my favorite ways to make money and improve my portfolio.

Let me start with United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS), a company with a great balance sheet, strong management, and trading 29% off its 52-week high, about where I sold it last year. I bought it earlier this year at the bargain basement price of $44, and now wished I had bought more.

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