The Coming Crisis: (Reuters) - Curtis Arnold tried to buy Facebook Inc stock 10 times throughout the day on Friday through his online brokerage, E*Trade Financial Inc. Each time, he tried to make the $25,000 purchase of shares, E*Trade's trading site either timed out or he received a message that said trading in the stock had halted, Arnold said. "I finally got so frustrated that I quit," he said. Now that the stock is trading 10 percent below its original $38-per-share price, Arnold, who is founder of credit card rating site Cardratings.com, said he is relieved. "Seeing what the stock is doing now, I am glad that my order did not go through," he said. "It saved me a nice chunk of change." Whether through trading glitches, or just an inability to get access to Facebook shares before the initial public offering, many investors who missed out on Friday, now say they are better off. Over the past few weeks investors have been hammering their financial advisers trying to get access to the much-anticipated social media site's shares pre-IPO. When advisers told some clients they were not able to get shares for them, the clients were extremely disappointed, advisers said. Not so much now.Source: The Coming Crisis
