Stock-Market "Rookies"; Beware The IPO!!

[Mr. Shaman]

"Retail investors typically can't buy in at the opening price. Institutional investors scarf up the best deals, and individuals get the leftovers. "If you can buy in at the offer price, you probably don't want to be in there," Lowry says.

The safer strategy, apart from avoiding new issues entirely, is to wait until a few months after launch, when you're better able to gauge the stock's value, and its highly volatile first days are past."

The Big Boys are (more-than-likely) depending on historically-challenged "rookies" to jump-in, early (like too-many of us did, in the '90s), so the Bigs can SCALP ya'!!

Don't give 'em that satisfaction, this-time-around. Let 'em cut-each-others'-throats, initially, before you make your move!​