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Categories: Trading, Investing, IPO

If HGTV had a financial market counterpart, flippers would be the stars of that channel’s shows.

Just as house flippers buy houses, renovate them fast, and sell them for a quick profit (at least, that’s their hope), flippers in the financial world do the same with stocks. They buy them fast, hold onto them for maybe a couple days, and then sell them for a profit before turning around and finding another stock to “flip.”

Is this risky? It can be. But for the most part, flippers believe that they know their way around the financial markets and are able to spot a good deal, especially when it comes to IPOs, as they spend hours on the golf course with the investment bankers/underwriters who are doing the deal. IPOs which are 10-20x over-subscribed are almost always "hot," with stocks coming at $12 and making their first flipper-friendly print at $20. Easy way to make a fast 8 bucks...if you can get it.

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Finance: What is a hot issue?2 Views

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Finance allah shmoop What is ah hot issue All right

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Well it's one that has demanded more than it is

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supplied One that is loved more than it is hated

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One that is hot more thin it's gold Well the

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most common hot issue in the press You read about

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all the time Yeah It's an aipo that everybody wants

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Why Well it's basically free money to the investors Price

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talk has been ten to twelve dollars a share And

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well then it looks like it's moved twelve to fifteen

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and out price doc's fifteen to eighteen a share And

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traders are mumbling that the first actual traded print will

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be something like forty dollars a share So anyone who

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buys at that eighteen dollars price or really any price

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upto thirty thirty two thirty five something like that Well

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they'll make a massive return for one day's work just

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flipping their stock Tio you no longer term holders I

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think about the real estate show where they flip houses

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you know Well they have to do a whole lot

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of work to flip a house on stocks are a

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lot easier Well why do hot issues even happen Well

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often banks purposely underprice i pose to quote pay the

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street unquote for taking risk and buying that aipo handsomely

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like they price it low Lots of people are going

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to buy it have a low cost basis and remember

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it fondly Well cos generally play along instead of selling

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say thirty forty fifty percent of themselves to the public

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in there i po well they only sell ten percent

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and later on they'll sell more when the stock is

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popped and traded and settled and has a buying public

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and all the other good things that go with it

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so and only a tiny amount of shares out there

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trading even modest demand can drive prices to the sky

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and this phenomenon happens Ah lot ebay snap facebook A

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whole bunch of others essentially created hot issues by offering

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very tiny fractions of ownership of themselves to the public

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in there i po so that the enormous buyer interest

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almost guarantees more demand than supply of the security being

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sold and hot issues as you guess our great well 00:02:03.51 --> [endTime] until they're not

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