brewcrewdue80

No, I'm strictly short on these IPO buys. I've bought 6 total thus far, Sold out on 5 of them with gained avg over 45% on those 5. The 6th has made money, just not where I want to sell out, happens to give a dividend so I trust it will continue modestly well. In 2015 I tried Dividend types. Lost big time on one(oil) The other took awhile. Trial and error. 3 different type of stocks dealing with oil. Taught me how the market can feed in a sector and which sectors sorta hit miss. Like you suggested biotech can be huge gains or losses. Oil is going to be mostly a losing preposition for some time. So it's sorta come to pick something in IPOs that have usefulness or potential usefulness. The hot ones are Tech stuff. The Trade Desk and Everbridge were two I missed out on. Part due to the early pop no shop. Part because I made mistake on symbol for trade desk. thinking tdd and not ttd. Oops. Snap sorta fell in that line of Tech, even though it says it's camera, but again early pop no shop. Healthcare is one I look for and hit on 3 of them. Oddly, an upcoming IPO is something that I believe I seen in the bothering you thread. Canada Goose those overpriced Parka Coats. They have a lot of good numbers going for them to have a short-term pop, maybe even lasting through a year somewhat steady in price. But $1,000 coats aren't exactly being bought up by blue collars. So the trendy White Collars are making this coat a lot of money right now, but at some point, the trend will end. Having a stock price of say $11-12 doesn't take much a big hike to go up 33% or more. I could see hype jumping this to $16-18 maybe even 20 in no time before the shine fades off and settles towards a modest price. So I'm looking to keep an eye on that.

I can't add much to this. I invest modestly in stocks. Late in 2015, I came upon more of IPO investing and done well thus far. They are supposed to be risky investment, but I've only gone in stocks that hadn't popped, seem to read as having some interest by others to invest, and I think it is in a promising type of market I guess. Take Snapchat, which had it's IPO last week. I had interest at the reported initial price offering of $14-16. Big timers who get first dibs on the "Initial Public Offering" bought in at $17. So when it truly began Public Offering, meaning Joe Schmo(me) can buy it himself, It opened at something like $23.50. Making $6.50 for the rich folks that are allowed the dibs and Joe Schmo Buying off their shares at a +38% gain and +46% above their proposed high initial price offering. In just a few days/hours/minutes it got as high at $29.44. which if you lucked in to that exact moment meant you as Joe Schmo made about 25%. If you held on for further well it closed today at 23.77 or less than 1% gain for you. This example I stay away from. You want to get the initial pop and that initial pop was your first buying opportunity past the pop. So, move on. I look for the types I can get in within the asked for price range give or take a small pct. gain. My targets have done well and my patience done well too, not to buy in post initial pop. Now if you're close to retirement age this isn't an idea you want to look for investing due to the risk. If you're somewhere around younger age 24-40 maybe? Something to play with your money. I look at these risky investments as being better than buying lottery tickets or playing money in a casino. Keeps me from going out and spending $5-20 when a Powerball or Mega Millions gets way up there. So if anyone is in that kind of investing then we can trade on info or debate potential IPOs to look in to.