Facebook IPO

[slow99]

Sean, the data analytics related to consumers are what make it so valuable. There is a massive amount of data available for multiple uses. When you have that many people signed up giving out their location, travel habits, wants, and thoughts, you have a very powerful tool. Selling ads is just a small part of it. I can't locate the article, but it showed a very strong forecast for this type of data. This allows firms to make data driven decision and remove more guess work.

I wish i made 250K a year so I could buy Facebook bonds

I don't think anyone in the world can buy facebook bonds.

[Ruffdaddy]

I understand what they are using, but the company has a very loose product. If they start dicking around with charging and doing other things to cause people to leave then they go exactly the way of myspace and are worth nothing.

You're exaly right and boy do I hope that happens. I would love to go back to the OG fbook, and maybe limit the number of updates some of these retards can post. Better yet, go back to before there was the status. Or even when it had to start with "is".

If someone starts a cleaned up, dumbed down social networking site, I will jump ship immediately

[Sean88gt]

Sean, the data analytics related to consumers are what make it so valuable. There is a massive amount of data available for multiple uses. When you have that many people signed up giving out their location, travel habits, wants, and thoughts, you have a very powerful tool. Selling ads is just a small part of it. I can't locate the article, but it showed a very strong forecast for this type of data. This allows firms to make data driven decision and remove more guess work.

I wish i made 250K a year so I could buy Facebook bonds

I understand what they are using, but the company has a very loose product. If they start dicking around with charging and doing other things to cause people to leave then they go exactly the way of myspace and are worth nothing.

[slow99]

82 million in the first 30 seconds from what CNBC said. Sounds like a mania to me. They said it briefly traded at $45 but I never saw it. Now it just bounced off of $38.

I finally got a volume on my real time and the god damn thing is jumping like crazy.

230 million shares in under an hour. The largest cap name I cover trades 40 million a day! This will be great for volumes, hell maybe replace that 10:1 citi reverse split shit.

[Broncojohnny]

Broken deal what?? This is insane, I've never seen volume like this. What a shitshow

82 million in the first 30 seconds from what CNBC said. Sounds like a mania to me. They said it briefly traded at $45 but I never saw it. Now it just bounced off of $38.

I finally got a volume on my real time and the god damn thing is jumping like crazy.

[slow99]

Broken deal what?? This is insane, I've never seen volume like this. What a shitshow

[Ruffdaddy]

Wtf makes the company worth anything? They sell advertising and are talking about charging per post to guarantee that your friends see it and so forth. I see this thing hitting the MySpace wall with a short period. I just don't understand the valuation of it.

Sean, the data analytics related to consumers are what make it so valuable. There is a massive amount of data available for multiple uses. When you have that many people signed up giving out their location, travel habits, wants, and thoughts, you have a very powerful tool. Selling ads is just a small part of it. I can't locate the article, but it showed a very strong forecast for this type of data. This allows firms to make data driven decision and remove more guess work.

I wish i made 250K a year so I could buy Facebook bonds

[slow99]

I knew this thread would be full of comedy. This is why I try and refrain from talking about things I'm clueless about.

Just call someone dick cheese, then use an argument that supports what they were saying.

I knew this thread would be full of comedy. This is why I try and refrain from talking about things I'm clueless about.

[Broncojohnny]

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[YALE]

Hey dick cheese, I work at a brokerage that participated in the fb ipo, along with many others. The requirements to participate in the ipo is
1) MINIMUM account equity in the RECEIVING account of $250k OR
3) 30 trades or more in the trailing 90 days.

Meet one of those requirements and have non marginal available funds available to cover the purchase and you are good to go, along with a 5130 and an IOI on file.

Really not that hard to wrap your 'holier than thou' head around, is it?

Dude, their expectations on this IPO are too high. They're going to take any dollar they can get. Hide & watch.

[slow99]

Dick cheese

[Broncojohnny]

Nice, where do you trade? Different firms have different requirements.

edit: my guess would be Scottrade?

I use E-trade but I also have a friend I do deals with who is a VP at Stifel. Then I know some analyst at Jeffries but that guy doesn't know shit!

[Broncojohnny]

Alan owns more facebooks than me!

I don't want this shit, you take it! lol

[roliath]

Wtf makes the company worth anything? They sell advertising and are talking about charging per post to guarantee that your friends see it and so forth. I see this thing hitting the MySpace wall with a short period. I just don't understand the valuation of it.

Ads man!
Little tiny ads!