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Except you would not have gotten the 40% pop that IPO investors received.


It's more complicated than that.

When you buy an IPO you have a gentlemens agreement not to sell. (They can't enforce it, but if you violate it you will never get IPO shares again.)

The IPO broker will carefully trickle out shares to the market to make sure of that 40% pop on the first day.

They don't want to release too few or there won't be enough of a market, plus the price will go too high. Too many and the price goes down.

So you don't really get that 40% pop, you have to wait for a more long term price to see how you did.


But you could have bought at $18 and made %33 which isn't bad for a day's work.


It's easy to make money in the stock market if you can predict the future.




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