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Remember to add the commission if you sold stuff to buy the IPO. Then, how many days did you hold it? 3 days? That gets you 350K/day?

Posted by: slappydavid on Aug 29, 10:34 in response to elchan's post Hmm, bought at $180 sold at $197, made $1.7M, commission...

Is that much better than what you usually do on a normal day? I think not...

And to think your port is 100M (not really that small), you probably didn't need to sell much, but I bet you there are people with much smaller ports trading the IPOs, selling everything to get a few shares.

All the selloff smaller ports do cause the market to collapse on our heads. Bigger ports usually have millions just laying around. If big IPOs were bought just by people that can afford them, we wouldn't have this problem, no selloff would be required. This are really big adjustments the market needs to make to get back to normal...

When I had a smaller port I would just lay off any big IPO, I benefitted from day trading based on that same selloffs and adjustments, and trust me, I did better than what the IPO could've brought me (and with less headaches). Now my port is big, I hold stuff longer, I just can't prevent the bleeding on those IPO days. I try to lessen the hit with daytrading, but weekends are not really great for it.

Another thing that works for me is to do my port cleaning on really great days. For example, hey I'm having a 5M day, great, I'll get rid of that deadbeat moviestock that's been bleeding on me. It softens the blow, at least psychologically, and without causing any market downfall... :)

To the worriers: Patience...I remember when I lost 10-15% of my port's value, when HSX had a "black Friday" day several years ago... Flash Aug 28, 16:11

Very sage advice, Flash. Fortunately, I'm one of those blasted day traders. Of course, in RL, I would never take that kind of risk. {nm} elchan Aug 28, 16:21

And, since it's really a futures market rather than a genuine stock market, there {nm} jjmarino Aug 28, 22:07

there's always an underlying value that you can expect to recoup. {nm} jjmarino Aug 28, 22:08

Flash, I was there for that one. this current one feels different tho. ive just had no time to breath and gain a foothold {nm} swordfish1 Aug 29, 06:42

I'm losing $ like you, and many others..this seems to be a bit more 'consistent' with losses, rather than sudden...but Flash Aug 29, 07:07

Maybe it's because there are more active players now than then, so the selloffs are bigger. I blame small ports for playing big IPOs... {nm} slappydavid Aug 29, 08:38

+1 They're only hurting themselves by not recognizing the actual cost of commissions on those big IPOs {nm} BSmurf Aug 29, 08:40

Hmm, bought at $180 sold at $197, made $1.7M, commission cost=$180K+197K, net $1.32M. Seems pretty clear to me. ;-) {nm} elchan Aug 29, 09:20

Remember to add the commission if you sold stuff to buy the IPO. Then, how many days did you hold it? 3 days? That gets you 350K/day? slappydavid Aug 29, 10:34

I forgot something else... slappydavid Aug 29, 10:43

Sloppy it only games and it is not serious and have fun {nm} mike255 Aug 29, 15:32

Fuck off! Please stop calling me sloppy, and stop saying the same thing over and over and over... slappydavid Aug 29, 15:42

Ha! The bad word went through... Apologies to everyone else... :) {nm} slappydavid Aug 29, 15:53

Fuck me! Did this one get through too? ;-) {nm} elchan Aug 29, 16:07

Man, we're going to get banned. {nm} elchan Aug 29, 16:08

But, it's the swings that make the game interesting. ;-) elchan Aug 29, 11:04

No one likes red days anyway... I'll only allow myself to have at most 1 per month! :P {nm} slappydavid Aug 29, 11:34

Sloppy it is only games and have fun. I care less if I lost million per day mike255 Aug 29, 15:33

What a troll... {nm} slappydavid Aug 29, 15:45

you are troll {nm} mike255 Aug 29, 18:51

yeah sloppy, he could care less about money.....that's why he's advocating more free money on the feedback board alfpaulytd2012 Aug 29, 15:46





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