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Well ... 'Shares Held' is a unreliable indiactor for IPO initial movement

Posted by: Lib84 on Nov 23, 06:43

SWHTM was overwhelmingly held long yet is nearly down 7.5 pts.

There goes that theory!

Well ... 'Shares Held' is a unreliable indiactor for IPO initial movement Lib84 Nov 23, 06:43

I was surprised by that, too. Seems unlikely, but, maybe the shorters were a larger number of traders with small positions, while edzep Nov 23, 07:27

yeah, that probably is, make sense {nm} krapnek Nov 23, 10:33

Your Port Monkey update edzep Nov 23, 11:59

thank you so much edzep! :D you're the man {nm} krapnek Nov 24, 03:37

maybe the rate at wich the stocks are sold also has influence {nm} krapnek Dec 02, 17:02

But it's shares held, not number of people holding it. You would think that if the number of shares held long by far outnumbered... photochick814 Nov 30, 07:13

it seems like the IPO price is set with a certain expectation of how many will go long vs. short and the stock price is driven by that {nm} lapuckfan Nov 23, 10:54

It seems kind of stupid that 32M shares of people thinking the IPO price was too low and 5M shares thinking it was too high shadowking Nov 23, 13:08

That puzzles me, too. I watched the Saturday IPO all day, and it's movement gave me fits Chefbobcat Nov 24, 03:19

maybe the rate at wich the stocks are sold also has influence {nm} krapnek Dec 02, 17:03

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