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Re:Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Mid... by thereason on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @08:00PM (#4010755)
How many investors do you think were reading every amendment to the S-1 up to May 9? Not even considering how many did not read the S-1 to begin with.

The use of the Greenshoe tactic to make the price appear stable also seems to suggest they were targeting naive investors who would only be watching the share price after trading began, having no regard for who was buying them.

Please tell me I'm wrong.

As for Henry Blodget, while he may be biased in favor of sensationalism to garner pageviews, he seems to be in a unique position to comment on this sort of maneuvering to manipulate naive "web investors". He was once in the center of it, during the first Bubble. We cannot say the same for the WSJ's writers.

Please tell me I'm wrong.

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Re:Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Mid... by Drbble on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @11:59PM (#4011475)
An investor who didn't read the s-1 was just wandering through a casino pulling slot machines without even reading the payout disclosures. There is right reason such an investor should profit. If that investor runs a fund for your capital, he should be fired.
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