But when that did not happen, the stock began to fall.
With the stock at $16.15 some 40 minutes after trading began, he put in an order to sell.
Their stock began 2007 at $1.00 per share and fell to $0.06 by the end of the year.
Some marked up their prices as stocks began to fall.
If the stock began trading even higher, a number of things could have happened.
But then the stock began falling, losing almost a third of its value.
And in the first two days of 1987, stocks began the year up 3.9 percent.
The stock started at about 30 and soon began falling.
The stock began the day down $10, and by the close it had fallen $13.25, to $36.
The stock then began to rise, trading next at $5 a share.