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Post by willowgirl on Jul 1, 2021 20:14:44 GMT
Yes. It closed the day up $2.26 so, as usual, I left some money on the table. LOL
Still not bad for a stock that went off at $14 a share.
I'd have made almost $500 if I'd gotten my 200 shares ... (I know; time to get over it!)
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Post by farmrbrown on Jul 2, 2021 1:42:56 GMT
Yes. It closed the day up $2.26 so, as usual, I left some money on the table. LOL Still not bad for a stock that went off at $14 a share. I'd have made almost $500 if I'd gotten my 200 shares ... (I know; time to get over it!) Not bad at all. In fact, hitting it big without actually learning anything could be one of the worst things to happen to you. One thing my granddad always stressed to me was doing your OWN research on companies before you invest a penny. This was WAY before the internet but the advice is just as good today.
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Post by willowgirl on Jul 6, 2021 14:14:41 GMT
Glad I got out when I did ...shares down more than 20% this morning over regulatory issues. (I suspect the chicoms are just trying to shake down the company's founders for a big chunk of the change they got out of the IPO.)
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jul 6, 2021 18:10:40 GMT
willowgirl , Good on ya for taking your winnings and walking away. For some reason it reminds me of a dice game in the early '70s. I was working for an interior finish company as a department manager and usually around 5:01 every evening the bar in the boss's office would open. About once or twice a week an impromptu craps game would break out, small scale, rarely over $20 on the carpet. I got the dice, and Lamar the owner was my "fade man" who had first opportunity to cover whatever I put out. As always, I put down $20, and he covered it. I rolled three straight passes, letting it ride each time. There was $160 on the carpet, so when I rolled a fourth pass I pulled half, pocketing $160. I continued to pull half on each succeeding pass, which to everyone's astonishment was 14 straight passes before I crapped out. That just has to be some kind of record. Knowing Lamar, he would have covered every bet whether I'd pulled or not. Another department head later said "Tom, if you'd have left that pot to build you'd own this company, Lamar wouldn't have given up." Of course that was foolish, if I'd have let it ride and crapped out, which had to happen, I'd have walked away short $20 instead of up a couple thousand. Just like a craps game, nobody knows what the next roll/day will bring. Take the money and run.
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Post by willowgirl on Jul 8, 2021 11:08:38 GMT
That's my motto!
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Post by joebill on Jul 12, 2021 10:06:56 GMT
Enjoy! ...... Joe
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Post by willowgirl on Sept 15, 2021 18:49:18 GMT
I put in to buy 300 shares of ONON, a Swiss running shoe manufacturer, which went off today.
TPTB, in their infinite wisdom, awarded me ... 2. Yes, you read that right ... 2.
Stock is up over $12; if I'd gotten all that I requested, I'd be looking at a profit of nearly $4,000.
As it is, I'm up $25. Sigh.
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Post by farmrbrown on Sept 15, 2021 22:29:15 GMT
I put in to buy 300 shares of ONON, a Swiss running shoe manufacturer, which went off today. TPTB, in their infinite wisdom, awarded me ... 2. Yes, you read that right ... 2. Stock is up over $12; if I'd gotten all that I requested, I'd be looking at a profit of nearly $4,000. As it is, I'm up $25. Sigh.Just for fun, and an experiment in reverse psychology, what if you try asking for an absurdly small number of stocks next time? (3,5,10, etc.) Make'em think you really aren't that interested and wouldn't like getting stuck with a few hundred shares of some unknown, unproven company. THEN see what they give ya. Let us know what happens if you do,
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Post by willowgirl on Sept 16, 2021 4:03:58 GMT
I don't think they can give you more than you ask for. I'm not sure exactly how shares are doled out. I'm guessing eTrade gets an allotment that it can divide among its customers who have put in a request to buy them. If that's the case, it makes sense for eTrade to include as many customers as possible since it gets paid for every trade. It will profit more from giving two shares to 100 people than 100 shares to two people, as each of the hundred recipients are likely to sell at some point and rack up a fee for the trade.
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