IPO Rocket.com

Weston asks:

The company will come out of bankruptcy soon; by issuing new stock to its creditors it’ll be back on it’s feet. The employees will be permitted to sell their shares in a few months. Should I wait to buy and if so how long? It’s still a great company and any help would be great. BTW I want to use Scottrade! Comments on that too…

Alverta asks:

anyone know when the date is? This would be the first stocks i’m buying. What do you guys think? What is the name of that site that you can buy online( i keep forgetting).
Also, i’ve hear that I wouldn’t be able to buy any Visa stock on the ipo date because that is reserved to large companies or other large investors. any truth to that?

Foster asks:

How does a person buy ipo stock ?

Noma asks:

What I mean is when stock is offered for the first time for a company, can individual investors buy too?

Kennith asks:

or is that just for the big boys and all of us normal ppl have to wait for the 1st day of out right trading

Deeanna asks:

Will i be able to buy Visa stock through E*Trade the day it goes public? Will there be shares available if I place an order at 9:30am, or would they have already been spoken for by brokers and with an inside advantage?

Hubert asks:

FIG, is anyone interested in this hedge fund going public? How is it still “private” equity if its now Public?

Bertie asks:

Can mutual fund managers buy the stock if it is in the quiet period?

Max asks:

If I buy a company’s stock, the money that I spend does not actually go to the company itself, but to whomever owned that stock last, right?

What if I want to use my power as an investor to actually help companies that I like and I feel good about? What if I want to make my investment help that company directly by giving it an infusion of capital to use in R&D, innovation, etc, rather than just line the pocketbooks of third party investors?

I understand that a company’s IPO is a good time to do this, because the money raised from sales of stocks in an IPO goes directly to the company, right? And when companies sell new stock later on (not an “initial” public offering, but a subsequent public offering (?))?

But is there any other time or other circumstances when my investment directly raises money for that company, or am I stuck just trading symbolic pieces of paper with third party speculators?