The Dow was down nearly 300 points Wednesday lead by commodities with Gold making its biggest drop since June of 2006 and Crude Oil down nearly 5%. Yet Wall Street still managed to pull off the Largest IPO in US history. Late Tuesday Visa (V) priced the 406 million shares of its Initial Public Offering at $44 per share, raising $17.9 billion in the process.

The following morning (Wednesday) the stock made its market debut at $69 before trading a whopping 177 million shares on the day. The stock cooled off slightly as the day went on but still closed up an impressive 28% at $56.50. Great news for the lucky few who were able to get in on the IPO, but for the average Joe investor, how do you play this?

In a recent post, I disclosed a holding in Sandvine Corp. (SNVNF.PK) and had promised a full fundamental analysis on the company. Well it was a rough week last week for shareholders of Sandvine. On Thursday, Sandvine announced that they were cutting their 2008 revenue forecast to $80-85 million from the previous $100-110 million.