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NASDAQ:FB
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Re: NASDAQ:FB
#22Someone mentioned on CNBC that he had placed an order (and seem to have gotten) 100 shares of FB via e-trade. Can retail investors (aka ... unsophisticated Joes like me) get in on the IPO allocation? I thought the initial shares were only offered to large investors (> 100K purchases). This doesn't help me for FB, but would be useful info in the future.
I got 50 shares from e-Trade. Never used eTrade before. It was one of the few platforms that were open for retailers. eTrade mentions that if I flip those shares in less than a month, I might not be able to get access to future IPO shares.
Re: NASDAQ:FB
#23Heh nice on my birthday facebook went public :D
Happy birthday!
Re: NASDAQ:FB
#24If you look at the bottom right under "Key stats and ratios"[1] you can see a trace of Google creating a time with 0 (default I guess) and spitting out the year (+/- 1 because of timezones) of the Unix epoch.
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#25It's weird how I posted the exact same thing with a slightly different URL two hours ago and it went unnoticed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991295 edit: Not complaining. It seemed like an interesting accidental split test.
Look here for good times to post: http://hnpickup.appspot.com/
Hope this helps. :)
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#26It's weird how I posted the exact same thing with a slightly different URL two hours ago and it went unnoticed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991295 edit: Not complaining. It seemed like an interesting accidental split test.
Many fewer people in North America were awake and on HN two hours ago. Timing is key.
I wonder what the optimal time is to post to HN. Do people usually wake up, check HN and then go about their day? If so, around 9-10:30AM EST? Or maybe if most HNers come from the west coast, would it be 9 - 10:30AM PST?
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#27It's weird how I posted the exact same thing with a slightly different URL two hours ago and it went unnoticed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991295 edit: Not complaining. It seemed like an interesting accidental split test.
Look here for good times to post: http://hnpickup.appspot.com/ Hope this helps. :)
Both interesting and useful.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many fewer people in North America were awake and on HN two hours ago. Timing is key.
I wonder what the optimal time is to post to HN. Do people usually wake up, check HN and then go about their day? If so, around 9-10:30AM EST? Or maybe if most HNers come from the west coast, would it be 9 - 10:30AM PST?
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991859
Re: NASDAQ:FB
#29This is like a NASCAR race, many (most?) of us watching secretly hope for a spectacular crash. It's wrong, but the potential of schadenfreude is very tempting.
Re: NASDAQ:FB
#30It's weird how I posted the exact same thing with a slightly different URL two hours ago and it went unnoticed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991295 edit: Not complaining. It seemed like an interesting accidental split test.
Look here for good times to post: http://hnpickup.appspot.com/ Hope this helps. :)
Can someone explain this graph to me? In particular, I don't understand what the blue line signifies.