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- From: hweingra@.com (Howard Weingram)
- Subject: Re: Buying New Stocks On The Day They Go Public
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.055348.1203@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- References: <1992Dec10.153055.4845@eng.umd.edu> <77987@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:53:48 GMT
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- In article <77987@hydra.gatech.EDU> andy@federation.gatech.edu (Andy Register) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec10.153055.4845@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
- >
- >Now as to the first day, Marty says something to the effect that you
- >can buy on the first trade and still lock in most of the gain. I don't
- >remember his advice about when to sell but within the first 6 months
- >seems like prudent advice given his historical summary.
- >
- >The only time I tried this, (on a brokers advice) the ipo went from
- >10 to 9 the first day and stayed around 9 1/4 for a long time. :-(
-
- Like anything else, you need to be careful with IPOs. There is no single
- rule that defines how every new offering will do.
-
- The best thing you can do is become informed about the company
- that is doing the offering -- i.e., do your research. It's often
- more difficult to get information about private companies and their
- prospects, and it's especially hard when they are about to go
- public. But unless you have an understanding of their business
- and prospects, you don't want to mess around with these risky
- stocks.
-
- If you ARE going to buy shares in a company that's going public,
- try to buy them directly from the underwriters if that's possible,
-
- howie
-