How do the Illuminati make billions of Dollars??? Easy, set up an IPO offering like Facebook's tomorrow, watch the greedy 'sheeple' come in and buy up billions of shares, then pull the rug out from underneath them.If you have been keeping up the past two to three weeks the massive puts being purchased by insiders, then you will have noticed the same thing I and so many others out there have. Companies in the Financial, Energy, Retail, and Software tech, in the past few weeks have been seeing a lot of puts being purchased on them. Indicating the coming meltdown, which will occur shortly around the time Iran is attacked, will affect all major sectors of society.
Then you see articles like the following one, and you have to ask yourself: Why if this company (Facebook) if it is going to be so successful as the media pundits want to make you believe are all the top/elite owners within it selling so heavily?
The Illuminati know how to make money. They just hope they make billions off of Facebook, right before the collapse of the market in late May, early June.
May 17, 2012, 5:39 p.m. EDT
Facebook insider sales are huge red flags!
Commentary: Think you’re smarter than Peter Thiel or Goldman Sachs?By John Shinal
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — If you had inside knowledge of a hot investment that you expected to be worth more in six months or even three months, why would you sell your stake this week?
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That’s a question retail investors should be asking themselves now that the level of stock-dumping among Facebook Inc. FB 0.00% insiders has reached a level that can only be described as “Grouponesque.” Here’s just how much certain Facebook insiders are selling.
With the additional sales planned this week, early investors are now selling more Facebook stock — and pocketing more money from the offering — than the social network itself.
That’s similar to what happened during several early funding rounds of Groupon Inc. grpn GRPN -4.90% , whose stock is now trading far below its IPO price.
Granted, Facebook is much more profitable at this point than Groupon, which posted a massive net loss in 2011, the same year it went public.
Yet as I pointed out in a column earlier this week, the frenzied demand for Facebook has driven its share price to a level where the stock is priced to perfection.
Savvy insiders know when to sell
A large body of research has shown that insiders time their sales of company stock better than retail investors. That may sound obvious, but it’s worth repeating this week, given the investing pedigree of those who are selling Facebook shares.
The list of insiders — including angel investor Peter Thiel, the venture-capital firm Accel Partners, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS -1.14% and Tiger Global Management — reads like a who’s who list of savvy tech investors.
Angel investor Peter Thiel (left) and Tiger Global’s Charles Coleman are selling shares. There was a time when angel investors and VC firms would sell only a small part of their stakes when start-ups in their portfolios conducted a blowout IPO. That signaled to the professional money managers buying IPO shares that they had enough confidence in the company to keep most of their skin in the game.
But investors in social-media companies have thrown that playbook out the window, and instead are selling as much as they can, as fast as they can.
Those guys were buying Facebook shares something like two, three or five years ago. Have you noticed they’re not buying any this week?
Given that they were early in recognizing Facebook’s value, they deserve to cash in. But do you want to be the one who hands them the cash?
Social-media bubble
Investment bubbles, from Dutch tulips to dot-com properties, don’t pop until sellers can’t find buyers. Given that Facebook raised both the size and the price of its offering, insiders who want to sell have found no shortage of takers.
Pinterest valued at $1.5 billion Scrapbooking website that has become a Silicon Valley darling because of its rapid user growth has raised $100 million in a financing round that values the start-up at $1.5 billion. Spencer Ante reports.
But the decision by so many Facebook insiders to sell so much of their respective stakes so soon suggests they don’t expect that dynamic to last.
Given the huge valuations being bestowed on young start-ups with no revenue, such as Instagram (bought by Facebook for $1 billion) and Pinterest, history says we’re not far from the top of the social-media investment bubble.
In the spring of 2000, The Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story describing how an investment club composed mostly of grandmothers in the Midwest had decided to move their money from conservative investments into tech stocks, hoping to get a piece of their then-outsize returns.
Within weeks, the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP -2.10% headed south. More than a decade later, it’s still 40% below those levels.
This week, the Journal had a story about a high-school investing club that was looking to buy Facebook IPO shares, with some convinced the stock was guaranteed to make money. To me, these stories sound eerily similar.
That’s not to say the social-media stock bubble can’t get a little bit larger, nor that those who buy Facebook shares on Friday won’t have the chance to make a profit. But before you put your hard-earned money into the IPO, ask yourself whether you can recognize a market top better than the company’s insiders.
John Shinal, a former technology editor of MarketWatch, is based in San Francisco.
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