Skip to content  Sell! Sell? Hold.  October 31, 2012  After a
two-day extra hold, Facebook employees are finally free to sell
the stock that they received in the IPO.  Facebook’s employees
remained on the sidelines as Facebook’s shares plummeted through
the summer and in August, when 271 million more insider shares
were released from lock-up. Peter Thiel, a very early investor
in Facebook and a member of the company’s board of directors,
sold the majority of his rich Facebook stock in August, helping
to push the stock down to its all-time low of $17.73 in early
September.  The markets are open, and it likely means that we’ll
see a sell-off this week from the employee base looking to cash
in on their compensation.  As the article notes, the stock
issued came in the form of Restricted Stock Units, or RSUs. 
These come in the form of stock shares directly deposited in an
account on a tax-neutral basis.  Usually some shares are sold
off to cover the taxes before the units are granted.  This means
that the stock l