Anyone else investing in alibaba for tomorrow?

Gonna spike at the open, then tank. Thats my thoughts. Much like Facebook. There is alot of speculation out there about BABA. Should be fun to watch.
 
yee. i just sold off ~7k of other a few stocks to invest and am looking to get about 100 shares. hopefully by the time i can buy, its not already above 70/share.
 
13137890:theBearJew said:
Gonna spike at the open, then tank. Thats my thoughts. Much like Facebook. There is alot of speculation out there about BABA. Should be fun to watch.
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difference is facebook didnt really have a long term business model at the time of the IPO. Alibaba is already a pretty established corporation, just the us market knows very little about them. still even if you bought facebook at the ipo price of ~40/share, right now its at $77/share and rising. soo, even if it spikes initially the precedent says it'l bounce back. but its comparing apples and oranges..
 
13137913:DERS. said:
difference is facebook didnt really have a long term business model at the time of the IPO. Alibaba is already a pretty established corporation, just the us market knows very little about them. still even if you bought facebook at the ipo price of ~40/share, right now its at $77/share and rising. soo, even if it spikes initially the precedent says it'l bounce back. but its comparing apples and oranges..
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Yea but who do you think bought it at $40 and stuck around till it got to $77. I would imagine most people got out not knowing how much further it would go. I think BABA will end up higher than the IPO, but idk if initially it will.

You never know with these things though, it could take off or drop like a rock. I've just read some stuff about the offering that is a bit weird and abnormal. I'm not putting my money from GPRO into it.
 
My problem with it is that I don't know a single person who goes to shop there and most people don't even know what they are. Seems like an insanely overhyped company. That being said..buying a couple thousand of it. If it follows facebook's path i'll buy more when shares tank.
 
13138479:KravtZ said:
My problem with it is that I don't know a single person who goes to shop there and most people don't even know what they are. Seems like an insanely overhyped company. That being said..buying a couple thousand of it. If it follows facebook's path i'll buy more when shares tank.
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normal everyday people don;t show there i believe it's more of a b2b type deal.
 
13138479:KravtZ said:
My problem with it is that I don't know a single person who goes to shop there and most people don't even know what they are.
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Yeah i gotta google what the company even is
 
13138479:KravtZ said:
My problem with it is that I don't know a single person who goes to shop there and most people don't even know what they are. Seems like an insanely overhyped company. That being said..buying a couple thousand of it. If it follows facebook's path i'll buy more when shares tank.
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Yeah, same here man. It seems like a pretty poor investment. I'm only going to buy a couple hundred shares.
 
I have way to much liquidation sitting around, I really need to get on my investing game.

It is a little late for me to hop on this profit and then sell short train.
 
All in all it seems a little questionable. No voting on the board of directors? The company is basically run by a charismatic dictator.

Also, anybody that is trying to break into the entrepreneurship/product creation game is most likely ordering samples from alibaba. You can get anything from fabrics to plastics for insanely cheap.

13138408:--ski-- said:
I haven't checked my bebo stock in a while. Wonder how that's going...
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bro Yahoo owns a huge stake in Allibaba pre-ipo.
 
my main concern is that I don't know how much faith I have in their financials. until the chinese government allows PCAOB review of audit documentation, I'm staying out of china. (so to speak)
 
the problem with huge IPOs like this is that the average one-day return in the first day of trading for IPOs bigger than $10 billion is 9 percent

i dunno why so many people thought it was gonna go huge on the first day. market just closed and it didn't even break $95...
 
13138924:Scaredwhiteboy said:
^ wow, you guys downvoted me just for being rich? That's so petty.
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Okay guys, time to stop downvoting me. Just because my dad is a hedge fund manager who makes 7 figures most years doesn't mean my comments are any less valid.
 
Why didnt you just put 10k on USF tonight or Kansas St last night?

I was on all 3.

Sports bets are much better investments than this bullshit.

Take UNC Iowa and Oklahoma tomorrow. Don't bet NFL.
 
13137913:DERS. said:
difference is facebook didnt really have a long term business model at the time of the IPO. Alibaba is already a pretty established corporation, just the us market knows very little about them. still even if you bought facebook at the ipo price of ~40/share, right now its at $77/share and rising. soo, even if it spikes initially the precedent says it'l bounce back. but its comparing apples and oranges..
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no the problem with facebook is they put out way too many shares. if they cut their share amount in half the price wouldn't have tanked.
 
13139426:zzzskizzz said:
no the problem with facebook is they put out way too many shares. if they cut their share amount in half the price wouldn't have tanked.
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If they did that then they would have lost half of their profits! It's a company not a charity. Their IPO was very well executed in terms of share price. They maximized their profit and sold to a bunch of retail investors who subsequently tanked the stock in panic.
 
The facebook IPO "failed" because the servers went down. People were buying and selling shares at unknown prices all day. That quickly puts a damper on any stock-fueled party.
 
13139856:TheBigApple said:
If they did that then they would have lost half of their profits! It's a company not a charity. Their IPO was very well executed in terms of share price. They maximized their profit and sold to a bunch of retail investors who subsequently tanked the stock in panic.
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No they wouldn't because the stock would have been worth more. if any of you guys were really smart you would have invested in Yahoo being that thay have huge shares in this company.
 
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