I got into the stock market in November 2013 mainly to own a piece of history - buy a Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) share on it's IPO (Initial Public Offering). However, I quickly realized it was impossible to do that as the lead brokerage firm got first dibs in buying all of the initial offerings and they made the profits from selling their TWTR shares. This meant I could not be the first owner of the share I wanted to buy.
