Twitter Reveals IPO Plan

[sc281]

My original post still fits.

[racrguy]

How do people get ipo shares in these deals?

You have to be invited by the company to get them before they open. Usually early investors get dibs best I understand it.

[slow06]

Drive trains

I stole this from the internet because i'm not slow99, but here ya go:

http://www.investopedia.com/university/ipo/ipo1.asp

What About Me?
As you can see, the road to an IPO is a long and complicated one. You may have noticed that individual investors aren't involved until the very end. This is because small investors aren't the target market. They don't have the cash and, therefore, hold little interest for the underwriters.
If underwriters think an IPO will be successful, they'll usually pad the pockets of their favorite institutional client with shares at the IPO price. The only way for you to get shares (known as an IPO allocation) is to have an account with one of the investment banks that is part of the underwriting syndicate. But don't expect to open an account with $1,000 and be showered with an allocation. You need to be a frequently trading client with a large account to get in on a hot IPO.

Bottom line, your chances of getting early shares in an IPO are slim to none unless you're on the inside. If you do get shares, it's probably because nobody else wants them. Granted, there are exceptions to every rule and it would be incorrect for us to say that it's impossible. Just keep in mind that the probability isn't high if you are a small investor.

[Shorty]

How do people get ipo shares in these deals?

Drive trains

[03mustangdude]

How do people get ipo shares in these deals?

[Josh.0]

this sounds like some dfwstangs shizz

[slow99]

Where is the $19 change cominf from? Were other people able to buy at $26 before public trading this morning?

Only people who bought at $26 was on the IPO yesterday. People on the secondary market are willing to pay $45. Twitter got fucked out of a lot of money, lmao.

[quikag]

We got 1300 IPO shares from GS and already sold them at $45 and change. Will buy back in a few months at 20.

[racrguy]

Interesting to see if/when I can short this thing.

If you could have bought in at open and sold about 10m later you could've made $5/share, and the same with the short, short it at 10.

[jefehbk]

Opened at $45.10

Where is the $19 change cominf from? Were other people able to buy at $26 before public trading this morning?

[slow99]

Opened at $45.10

[slow99]

Interesting to see if/when I can short this thing.

[slow99]

AAAAAH I getya. Looks like it should open for trading soon, why would they not open trades on it at the bell?

Too much to sort out on the first day of a big IPO. It's looking to open in about an hour right now.

[Roscoe]

At $45 it's 20x forward revenue, lmao.

Sounds like a solid P/E to me... Operating loss, what??!

[slow99]

At $45 it's 20x forward revenue, lmao.