Fidelity’s SpaceX ‘flipping’ rule sounds harsh — but at 15 days it’s a shorter lock than Robinhood or SoFi SpaceX named five retail brokerages in its prospectus as direct channels to the IPO: Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Robinhood, SoFi and E*Trade. (1) All five let everyday…
vestors buy at the $135 offer price. None of them lets you sell whenever you want without a possible cost
That cost is the flipping rule. Sell your allocated shares too soon and the broker tags you a “flipper,” which can bar you from future IPOs on the platform. The window and the penalty are set by each broker, not by regulators, which is why they range from 15 days at the strictest to nothing at all elsewhere.
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