Jan. 2 at 11:26 PM
IPOs can open anywhere between 10am-3pm. Sometimes later. Zoom's IPO? Didn't start trading until 2:47 PM.
The problem: You can't stare at your screen refreshing for 5 hours straight. You have meetings. Work comes up. You step away for 10 minutes and miss the open entirely.
Or worse—you finally see it on your feed and the first trade already printed 5 minutes ago. You're chasing a spike.
Example: Reddit IPO opened at
$47. Hit
$57 (+21%) within 30 minutes. If you got the alert after it opened, you're buying at
$52+ and hoping. If you knew 10 minutes early, you're in at
$47.
That's a
$5 alert potentially saving you
$500+ on a 100-share position. Or helping you avoid a bad entry entirely.
What if you got a text 5-10 minutes BEFORE the first trade? Enough time to:
- Wrap up your meeting
- Pull up your broker
- Set your limit order
- Actually catch the open instead of chasing it
Would that be worth
$5 per IPO?
genuinely trying to figure out if this is a real problem.
$RDDT $ZM $QQQ