IPO's

Discussion in 'Investing' started by Don Johan, Jul 20, 2018.

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  1. Don Johan

    Don Johan New Member

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    Hey guys, Im a Swedish investor and normally focus on the swedish markets. But the American IPO climate has drawn my attention recently. How come no americans seems to be talking about it? Your IPO's gone off the roof lately.

    Maybe the search function is off or I did something wrong, but I got no results when searching for "IPO". And I've looked trough other forums with the same results aswell. When we have these investment opportunities in Sweden, when every decent IPO goes +30-50% on day 1, everyone is talking about which to sign and which to avoid. Have I missed something here? Is there a reason why everyone only seems to focus on other types of trading?

    When you sign up for say, 1000 stocks, of a hyped IPO, how many of those do you normally get? Like 10% of what you sign up for?
     
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    Welcome to the forums Don. IPO's are a very risky investment which is why I think most people on THIS forum avoid them for the most part. Most of the people here are not here to gamble, but are instead here to use some sort of trading strategy to try to beat the market. You don't win long-term by gambling. That's not to say that there aren't some great opportunities when a stock does an IPO, but for the most part they are too volatile and unpredictable. If someone wanted to take a gamble on it with a small % play compared to most of their trades, I wouldn't be against it, but it's just not something most of us do. There are a few IPO threads on here, but not a lot.

    Also - in terms of the search function, there's currently no way to search for 3 letters or less in the search bar which makes it tricky to search for IPO. If you're searching for a stock ticker though, you'll have better luck typing part of the company name. For example, if you wanted to find "CAT" , you would search for "cater*" using the wildcard key "*" and that would find anything that has "CATER" in it. That's just one example, you can use the wildcard key before and after if you're not sure exactly what the company name might be. *ETFLI* would find Netflix for example.

    Sorry for the confusion when searching!

    Here is the main IPO thread - https://stockaholics.net/threads/upcoming-ipos-ipo-discussion-new-stocks-coming-to-the-market.2283/
     
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  3. Don Johan

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    I agree that IPO's are risky investments after the company enteres the market. But buying the right stocks before the entrence is not that difficult when 7 or 8 out of 10 stocks gain value day 1. Thats a much safer strategy then any trading strategy.

    I still wonder how many stocks people gets in the IPO's who goes +25-50% the first day. When you learn how to pick those up, you dont need to bother about the daytrading.
     
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    TomB16 Well-Known Member

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    I don't talk about IPOs because I don't care about them.

    I buy business I want to own with honest, hard working, smart management and then I save up some more money and do it again.
     

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