It's Black Friday and I Don't Care
Nov. 25th, 2022 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerThanksgiving '22 Travelog #8
Near Harrisburg, PA - Fri, 25 Nov 2022, 4pm
Today's Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, supposedly the biggest shopping day of the year. I say supposedly because I don't know if it still is. I haven't gone out to a store to see how busy they are. I don't want to go shopping. I've barely even read the voluminous email I've gotten about Deals!, Deals!!, Deals!!! I've just deleted most of it after a quick skim to see what seller it's from. I just don't care. I'm not in the market to buy things, even if they are at lower prices than ever before.
One thing I am in the market for, though, is shares of companies. Like last year on Black Friday I spent the morning shopping in the stock market. This year there's no compelling sale on stocks on Black Friday. Last year news of the new Covid omicron variant broke on Black Friday, causing a small market panic that drove prices down several percent. I picked up a few bargains that day. Today my bargains were limited to a pair trade between two similar stocks where one went up a notch and the other dropped two notches. I sold high, bought low.
Near Harrisburg, PA - Fri, 25 Nov 2022, 4pm
Today's Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, supposedly the biggest shopping day of the year. I say supposedly because I don't know if it still is. I haven't gone out to a store to see how busy they are. I don't want to go shopping. I've barely even read the voluminous email I've gotten about Deals!, Deals!!, Deals!!! I've just deleted most of it after a quick skim to see what seller it's from. I just don't care. I'm not in the market to buy things, even if they are at lower prices than ever before.
One thing I am in the market for, though, is shares of companies. Like last year on Black Friday I spent the morning shopping in the stock market. This year there's no compelling sale on stocks on Black Friday. Last year news of the new Covid omicron variant broke on Black Friday, causing a small market panic that drove prices down several percent. I picked up a few bargains that day. Today my bargains were limited to a pair trade between two similar stocks where one went up a notch and the other dropped two notches. I sold high, bought low.
