SpaceX IPO and Reddit History

Investor summaryBearish

Author plans to short SpaceX IPO, arguing lowered investment minimums signal a retail trap for institutional exit liquidity.

Bear points

Lowering minimum investment thresholds suggests a strategy to maximize retail participation for institutional exit liquidity.
Comparison to exclusive pre-IPO access implies current openness is designed to distribute risk to unsophisticated investors.
Anticipation of significant insider selling by major stakeholders like Elon Musk post-listing.

CMG

Post body

I’m glad there are so many posts on Reddit talking about how SpaceX is going to be an absolute rug pull on the backs of retail traders.

For anyone who is all in on it, I wish you all the best.

Reducing the minimum requirement from $500k to $2k is a clear sign to me that retail traders are going to be left holding the bag.

I remember when I missed out on Chipotle because I had to have a $2m account with Merrill lynch to invest pre-IPO. This is the opposite. Open it up to everyone so that institutional players (and Elon) can sell $ amounts beyond our comprehension.

I’ve got a wife and kids but I’ll be holding a short position for as much as I can stomach as soon as they open up options as long as it hasn’t dropped by 50% by then.

Discussion · top comments12 selected

u/CouchPotatoFamine 6· 4d ago

Huh? What does having a wife and kids have to do with this? Anyway, I only need to hold it for hopefully about 40 minutes or so.

u/OnceInABlueMoon 1· 4d ago

It means, if I'm wrong then my wife is going to have to get a second job or we're not eating

u/CouchPotatoFamine 1· 4d ago

Damn, you would make her get the second job, not you?

u/someroastedbeef 5· 4d ago

inverse reddit gonna go hard on this

u/kinetic_honda 4· 4d ago

Ok..... Thanks?

u/Raslatt 3· 4d ago

Holy cow OP is a crybaby. I wonder what heavy bags he’s holding?

u/RickDick-246 1· 4d ago

I’m not holding any bags. I moved from individual stocks to VXUS and VOO about 3 years ago. I had calls on $GME and sold $FFIE just in time. I’d put half of my portfolio on SpaceX puts if I didn’t have obligations. I’ll probably put $50k on it.

I’ll post my positions when I have them.

u/Raslatt 1· 4d ago

Wow you left money on the table with VOO lol

u/RickDick-246 1· 4d ago

I think I’m up 24% on my VOO/VXUS portfolio and 70% on my AI portfolio since 2025… I’ll take that all day.

I’m pretty close to moving from the wealth creation to wealth preservation stage of my life. A few more 10% years and I can retire. So no I’m not trying to make massive returns.

u/Fritzkreig 3· 4d ago

I see that they did not let you in on the pre-IPO RDDT sale here‽

u/stocks-ModTeam 1· 4d ago

Sorry, we're removing this post because it's a duplicate, or extremely similar, to another that was already posted.

We appreciate the effort but we don't need multiple posts that cover the same topic.

u/someroastedbeef 1· 4d ago

inverse reddit gonna go hard on this

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