Fadi El-Eter

We're now in the beginning of January 2012, and the January Effect is now set to take place: stocks that should not go up will go up, merely because those who have sold them back in December will buy them back in January. The January Effect will...

A friend asked me the other day: "What is a lockup period?" He told me that he heard of the term lockup period while reading an article about the LinkedIn IPO. I thought I write an article to explain, in details, what is a lockup period. Definition...

Buying at IPO is an almost guaranteed way to make money, especially if the company issuing the stock has a sterling reputation (many times you can make money even if the company issuing the stock is losing money!). But holding the stock for a while is a...

The words risky and dangerous are often used interchangeably in the trading world, but there is a substantial difference between the two: Risky stocks are those stocks that you believe in, while most of the market doesn't. Risky stocks are typically...

I have watched both YOKU and DANG stocks in the past week, when they started trading last Wednesday. In 3 trading days, YOKU was up over 42% (at one point on Friday, YOKU touched $50 and thus was up almost 100%, I feel sad for those who bought at this...