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When can i buy Facebook stock through my trading account ? - Neerajv - 01-20-2013 01:13 PM
I heard Facebook filed for IPO, so my question is when can i buy FB stock , when is it supposed to be listed in US stock exchange ?
- tazzybeer06 - 01-20-2013 01:21 PM
why bother go on fb and ask
- Common Sense - 01-20-2013 01:21 PM
I believe it's March or April. Everybody & their mother wants shares in FB. A clear reason to avoid this stock for a year.
- Priti - 01-20-2013 01:21 PM
Buy Shares of Mail.ru on the London Stock Exchange. Mail.ru (Ticker: MAIL) is a recently publicly traded company out of Russia who boasts a large free email service within Russia (think Hotmail back in the day).
They have a huge backing from privately held Digital Sky Technologies (DST), an internet investing group, which continues to invest early and often in big, up and coming internet companies.
Rumors believe DST has invested approximately $500 million to date and some of its early investments are up eight fold with a Facebook value of $80 billion dollars.
Through DST, Mail.ru has a 2.4% stake in Facebook stock.
Buy direct shares on the secondary market via SharesPost or SecondMarket.
SharesPost and SecondMarket is simplest way to directly obtain Facebook stock through online auctions.
However, there are some major caveats.
For the most part, both companies do the same thing in auctioning off privately held shares of various companies.
Both are free to sign up, but you need to be an “accredited†SEC investor to participate in a stock Facebook auctions.
Being an “accredited†SEC investor is very similar to participating in a hedge fund. You need to have a net worth of at least $1 million not including your house or make over $200,000 per year
(or $300,000 if married) and expect to make a similar amount going forward.
In other words, you need to be fairly rich and rightly so.
Most of the Facebook stock auctions involve buying blocks of shares and not 100 or 200 at a time.
Hopefully, this list gave you some ideas on how to buy some shares of Facebook.
It’s not perfect but anytime you attempt to invest in a company pre-IPO it presents some difficulties.
As always, make sure you do your research and figure out if you believe
Facebook is currently overvalued or not and whether or not Facebook stock will be a good investment going forward.