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My partner and I were invited to Chicago yesterday for an interview to discuss our firm, SMB Capital.\u00a0 All went well, grabbed some deep dish\u00a0pizza at Gino’s East (delicious!),\u00a0and headed for O’Hare.\u00a0 The 3pm to NYC\u00a0was delayed for 2 hours, the 4 for a little over 2 hours and the 5 for about 2 1\/2.\u00a0 My plane was posting for an on time arrival.\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 Now I am not an expert in air traffic control, but I did know from the pattern recognition skills that I have developed as a trader that there was no way I was getting home as scheduled.\u00a0 Even more inanely, we boarded the plane pretending that we were gonna take off on time, closed the cabin, approached the runway area and then just stopped.\u00a0\u00a0 Shockingly the captain announced, “there has been weather in NYC and we are not cleared for wheels up for another 2 hours.”\u00a0 Ripper, but I think we knew that was coming.<\/p>\n

Watching UPS into the close.\u00a0\u00a0The intraday pattern for UPS is strength near 63 and weakness near 63.50.\u00a0 IF UPS holds below 63 I will look to short it.\u00a0 If UPS holds above 63.50 I will look to get long.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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