Economy

Needed food, couldn't find a trade in the first hour, so set a buy below on Disney options and went shopping.

Kohl's is stuffed. I bought four 4-ounce tomatoes that came to 1.5 pounds because the ALDI checkout manager leaned her elbow on the scale. I saw this but didn't realize the significance at that time. But I had previously weighed one tomato and added 3 of same size. So I got cheated.

Kohl's is still stuffed. Looked like very little was sold. Or they had trailers full of replacements.

Burlington Coat moved to a new location. They bought dozens of Bed Bath and Behind locations that closed. The old Burlington store was large, with high ceilings, plenty of air movement, bright lighting, carpeting. The new Burlington is half the size, low ceilings, lighting that is too white and too dim. I felt like several of the high school customers were so close as to be ready to mug me. They were stuffed too. There was no run on merchandise there. I saw Cal Klein coat I think it was $295 retail ... $75. Not my size but nice. That $295 retail seems out of line.

Then went to Famous Footwear. Now they had a run on shoes. No more tall shelves, most of the store was sneakers. But what was weird was about 2/3 of the ceiling lighting was turned off. It wasn't dim, you could see, but it was creepily dim. They're so pressed they have to dim the lights to save electric? It's all LED flourescent ... efficient. Weird.

SO when I returned home my Disney had executed, and I was up a tenner. Went to close and the stupid software from this third rate broker doesn't peel a close order from my long, it enters an open buy order, I don't look at it because I assume it's a close, and suddenly I've doubled my long position. So I stake out a limit order 2 cents above to clear the whole lot and lo and behold she bangs like a trooper about 10 minutes later at the high of the day!! Only made a 25-spot but I'm out and not in a (now) losing position overnight. Lucky as I said.

Tomorrow another go at it.