Comments on: Getting Alibaba IPO Stock: Not So Fast

By: joyce

joyce — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:38:34 +0000

would anybody tell me for his or her kind heart that the chinese meaning of the phrase”distribution compliance period” states in this article? many thanx and a happy spring festival!^^

By: Sun

Sun — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:19:34 +0000

LM: Actually, the freeze period expired on Dec. 17th and I bought some shares of Alibaba on Dec. 19th from E-Trade. From my understanding, the 40 days are calendar days.

By: LM

LM — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:56:32 +0000

Aren’t the 40 days up soon? By my calculations, it would be today, but that did not count for any holidays/off days on the Hang Seng. What is the day?

By: Saleem

Saleem — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:30:15 +0000

Hi,
I have been folowing Alibaba stock since the intial IPO, and I was hoping to buy some options, but didn't know how to do it. I personally think Alibaba shares should continue to go up, they are sitting at around 40 USD at the moment, but continue to rise. I may do a bit of financial spread betting on the stock, as my next best option.

Regards

Saleem

By: Guess I Can Forget about Alibaba | The Sun’s Financial Diary | A Personal Finance Blog on Saving and Investing

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:28:35 +0000

[...] my account and tried to see if I could buy 1688.HK when the stock was at HK$29.90 though I knew it was almost impossible because of the rule. And indeed I got an error saying the stock isn’t available at this time, no 40-day period [...]

By: Reached Another Milestone And Other Great Articles From Around The Internet | Personal Finance Blog by Money Ning

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:30:35 +0000

[...] The Sun’s Financial Diary taught me that the ETrade brokerage account has a 40 day lockout period before you can trade an IPO. [...]

By: Sun

Sun — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:25:47 +0000

loulou: I don’t know that company you mentioned. So I am afraid I may not be able to provide you any input. Do you have the symbol? Where did it IPO? From what I observed in the past couple of years for Chinese IPOs, the stock usually goes up a lot in the first couple of days of trading, but it always come down a little bit in the following days/weeks after the initial hype cools off. I noticed a lot of stocks followed this pattern. So it may not hurt to wait some time before entering. And if the stock can’t deliver on the high expectation, it will eventually fall. Another thing I have noticed is that if the company has a dominate position in China, its stock usually does very well. And service related stocks, not technology stocks, are always good bet. If you plan to hold the stock for a long time and believe it can deliver the earning that supports its high price, then you can always buy it after the pull back.

RC: Yes, Yahoo owns 40% of Alibaba’s parent company, but I don’t know how much Yahoo will benefit from Alibaba and how Yahoo’s stock will react to Alibaba. I still plan to buy Alibaba directly instead of using Yahoo.

By: MoneyNing

MoneyNing — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:38:46 +0000

Doh! Ah well. Actually, I think it might be better because Alibaba will probably run up and cool off after a week or so because of the hype.

By: RC

RC — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:10:43 +0000

Buy Yahoo in the meantime as they are part owner of Alibaba

By: plonkee

plonkee — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:37:57 +0000

US regulations seem particularly restrictive – is this an attempt to save people from themselves or is there another underlying motive that I’m not seeing?

By: Sun

Sun — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:16:35 +0000

aa: Nothing is impossible

By: loulou

loulou — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:25:22 +0000

先�?说：爱死你的diary了。昨天刚刚�?�?�现，狂读了几个�?时。
还想问问你有没有�?�说过“东�?��?通“ 一个厦门的公�?�。昨天ipo, 狂涨。 �?�惜我闲没�?�说过，而且its English version website hasn’t been built up yet, didn’t buy it yesterday. Anyway, what i wanna ask is if you know this company a bit and till which price level you think investor can still long it. Thanks in advance~

By: aa

aa — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:51:02 +0000

After 40 days, u will see the price doubled, LOL.