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Topcat
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Do I have to wait until a company is being publically traded or can I get in before then ?

I'm interested in Mastercard and burger king for this year.....

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here's one general explanation, from E*trade:

https://us.etrade.com/e/t/applogic/IPOCenter?Message=IPOFaq:1

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unless you provide them capital in exchange for shares or are an employee and receive pre ipo shares then you have to wait like just eveyone else. some people are allocated shares at the ipo price like i think is stated in the link above.
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I wouldnt recommend investing in IPO's... but I would recommend investing in spinoff's... reason being is that when a parent company spinoff's a unit the investors do not know what to think of it.. they think that the parent company are spinning it off because it is unprofitable and such etc... in a spinoff.. the investors of Company A are given the shares of the spinoff of Company B before the public does... the investors are usually not sophisticated enough to know what to do with the shares and/or panic about receiving such shares of a new company they do not know that they dump their shares in the market and the price goes into a freefall.. Smart money waits till the price hits rock bottom and is about to turn around... spinoff's like this usually pay Smart Money handsomely over the next two or three years ... one example is Lehman Brothers.. you can look at their beginning's etc and where they are now.. but a most recent example is AMP (Ameriprise Financial) a spinoff of American Express... dumb money dumped the stock in the market and it plunged to about $32 a share... Smart Money finally came in and started buying up the stock.. one of them being Warren Buffett who bought about 12% of the stock i believe... now if you bought at $32 a share when smart money did , your stock would now be in the $44 range... it's Resistance is currently $45... once it passes $45 a share watch out.. also historically spinoff's usually split the stock down the road.. so expect that from AMP sometime.. who knows when.. maybe a year or more.. but anyways just wanted to give shout outs about spinoffs.. if you need a book recommendation on how to play them let me know...

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