if you recently gobbled up twitter twtr stock on the news that elon musk would be paying 5420 a share to acquire the social media company and take it private friday the 13th is living up to its reputation just know that investing experts have been urging caution all along for anyone eyeing potential profits in a shortterm market play while the world’s richest man set his sights on the company twitter’s stock price fell sharply after elon musk’s early friday morning tweet saying that his deal to buy the social media for approximately 44 billion was “temporarily on hold” amid a review to check that spam and fake accounts are a sliver of twitter’s users after musk’s 544 am tweet the stock reeled in premarket trading musk followed two hours later with a tweet that he was “still committed to acquisition” investors didn’t appear reassured with twitter share prices hovering friday morning around 4178 after a thursday market close at 4508 a roughly 7 decline twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment throughout april twitter’s trading volume has hit crescendos during key points in the story of musk’s bid according to factset data for example there were 2692 million shares traded on april 4 the day news broke that musk had acquired a 92 stake in twitter the day before there were 121 million shares traded factset data showed by late morning trading friday there were already 5621 million shares traded exceeding the 65day average of 5013 million shares traded per day marketwatch data showed weeks before friday’s plot twist and the rocky slide down for the stock market generally financial planners and stock market experts said it could have been tempting to buy twitter stock on the assumption its final sales point would be 5420 per share after all that would have yielded a tidy profit from around midapril onwards when the stock was trading around the mid and upper 40s but it was worth remembering the risks of such a move including the chance that the deal didn’t go through they advised that was one of the reasons why the stock price didn’t stay pegged at the 5420 offer price from the time musk and twitter’s board said there was a “definitive agreement” they noted “individual investors can express their own opinions about the probability of the deal’s closing and at what time it is likely to do so but realize that there are professionals who do little else other than assess these variables” steve sosnick chief strategist at interactive brokers ibkr  previously told marketwatch in late april these professionals were “already heavily engaged in the pricing and positioning around the twitter deal” sosnick said at the time the problem is many professionals may be blindsided too on friday musk’s “bizarre tweet” injected a whole new level of uncertainty on the deal and transformed the “twitter circus show into a friday the 13th horror show” according to analyst dan ives of wedbush securities there’s already a 1 billion breakup fee that could apply to either musk or twitter if the deal doesn’t materialize according to sec filings twitter’s stock was down almost 4 yeartodate as of friday morning at one point in late april the stock was up approximately 196 yeartodate the dow jones industrial average djia was down roughly 11 and the sp 500 spx was down nearly 16 as it veered toward a bear market