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November 12, 2025

Why IPOs Matter — and How to Trade Them

Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) are some of the most exciting events in the stock market. A new listing can generate huge buzz, draw in institutional money, and create powerful trading opportunities. But IPOs are also tricky — they lack long-term chart history and often experience sharp volatility in their first year.

IPO levels are some of the most psychologically important price markers in the market. Institutions, underwriters, and retail traders alike pay close attention to whether a new stock is holding its IPO price or breaking out to new highs. These new filters and scans give you a structured way to track that activity across the market.

To help you track and trade recent IPOs more effectively, I recently rolled out a series of updates to SwingTradeBot’s suite of IPO tools.  (Note that all the IPO Price related things are only for the US Markets… I don’t have access to IPO Prices for Canada & Australia)

The IPO Price: A Critical Anchor

The IPO Price isn’t the first public trade — it’s the allocation price set the night before trading begins, the level that underwriters and institutions pay when the company goes public.
  • Above the IPO Price: Institutions that bought at the offering are sitting on gains, and new buyers may see this as a sign of strength.
  • Below the IPO Price: Those same institutions may be underwater, which often creates additional selling pressure.

Because of this, the IPO price often acts as a powerful psychological anchor for the stock’s first year of trading. Watching how a stock behaves relative to its IPO price can provide clues about whether demand is building or fading.

What’s New on the Recent IPOs Page

  • IPO Price: You’ll now see the original IPO price alongside each stock.  Note that this will only appear for actual IPOs… an IPO price doesn’t exist for direct listing & spin-offs, which also appear on the “Recent IPOs” page.  (It’s technically a “New Listings” page.)  
  • % From IPO Price: How far the stock currently trades above or below its IPO Price. 
  • Sort by either of the above columns: to help you quickly spot outliers. 
  • Price & Volume Filters: The page now includes minimum price and minimum volume filters. These default to your preferred EOD scan settings, but you can adjust them anytime on the page.

4 Brand-New IPO Scans

I’ve added to the category of IPO-focused scans to help you find trade setups unique to new listings. These scans only apply to stocks that IPO’d within the past 12 months:
Side note:  I’ve been really disgusted with absolute flood of Chinese “junk” IPOs.  (They also show up as being headquartered in Singapore or Taiwan, etc.)  They’re the reason I finally added the price filter.  For some reason over the last few years there have been a ton of Chinese IPOs which IPO at $4/share and then go on what appear to be highly manipulated rides.  You’ll almost always end up with a chart like this:

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I’ve actually contemplated adding a “Chinese” flag to the these stocks and a filter for scan results to hide them.  But I think the IPO Price filter will work better over the long term, unless they start to list these things at higher prices.  Just be careful out there!

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