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Depends on how you time it and what you think the prospects are. Skittish Facebook employees missed out on a quadrupling of value if they sold in the first six

• Stasis5001 9y ago
  Sure, and what about skittish Groupon employees?
  • Beltiras 9y ago
    I am quite sure the counterexamples are more numerous. As insiders they had more information than the general market.
  • jonknee 9y ago
    Well that's kind of the point about watching to see what happens when insiders are allowed to sell...
• IanCal 9y ago
  I think there's a reasonable thing to add and that's risk. I might be more willing to accept a guaranteed £X than a 20% chance of a £10 * X payout, depending on the X. My personal investment philosophy generally would recommend pulling out large single investments into broader funds even though the potential top payout drops.
• module0000 9y ago
  Keep in mind facebook employees are not in any way/shape/form "halfway decent traders". The halfway decent trader group will take profit off the table the moment they can - if at some later time it looks like there is a profitable long position to be had then they take it. Amateurs take/hold positions when there is nothing happening at that moment. tldr; You don't hold something because you think it will go up. You open long when it is going up and you think it will continue. The reason for the 90/90/90 statistic is because of mindsets like those facebook employees you mention.