Recent content by DesertCO

For the first time in four years I opted to de-position about 20% of more core holdings (some on Friday, some during amateur hour this morning). I may reverse that later this summer, but for now I want to de-risk roughly 30%. I will still hold a fairly large position overall, but with a cost...

I think if the direction changes, it will move quickly to the retrace. I wouldn't doubt a move to sub 200 in the first trading day. Just IMHO. I typically only use a metric of a daily chart to determine direction though - especially with TSLA. But yes, two red sticks on Tues/Weds will certainly...

On a beat, I had an immediate resistance at 221.x, and 225.8x. I figured depending on the beat, and overall market (given the uncertainty of macro market tides as of late) we would be somewhere between those goal posts on Tues/Weds. I think there would be a strong resistance at the 225.8x zone...

For any one curious, I had run a few TA's for both directions of Q2 [del #'s]. I will focus on the Q2 [del #'s] miss, because I actually thought it would be close to 16K -- so given that it's even off of my low estimate, this will likely be a few points lower. My retrace calculated $179, which...

That certainly clears it up a bit - thanks!

This is good to know. I have a margin account, and have both core shares and options specifically in TSLA. I did get a phone call last fall from my brokerage asking if I wanted to participate in share lending (interest would be paid, and all sorts of other chatter about how it would be backed)...

I'm talking about about shares you own outright.

I use USAA, and I had confirmed last summer that they do in fact loan shares on occasion. I can't remember whom they are owned by, but it is a company contracted out by USAA. Unlike the banking services, it is not controlled in house by USAA. I will double check this with brokerage services...

To chime in on this, if you do NOT want your shares to be loaned (as Curt already said) to short sellers by your brokerage you need to set a high limit sell order. Especially true if you do not gain interest from the transaction. Many people do not know that their brokerages lend stocks, those...

There is that saying, do not let you emotions guide your stock decisions. I can't help but to wonder if that golden rule is being disregarded here. I have been up much of the night looking at financials of both companies in detail. The main issue that bothers me here is the cross-pollination of...

Well, we could compare positions, trades, and movements if you like. For a long term successful day trade you need to be right 51% of the time. My batting average is about 82%. Then again I have owned a position in TSLA since the upper 20's, and successfully bought almost every dip, and sold on...

We may be in for a slight movement down. Very similar to September movements. There is a negative sentiment overshadowing some very positive things. As we saw today, a few articles are shaking out weak hands and desperate shorts are piling it on. We 'should' be testing the 255, but unless it...

Yes, we do -- however, those haven't really been dedicated to anything other than quarterly (or longer forecasts). Specifically, I thought this thread was dedicated to short term price movements, and this had been clarified multiple times. Then within a day or two it becomes polluted for those...

I disagree. No, speaking for myself, I REALLY didn't think the media was going to ignore all of Tesla's problems. Investing is of course more than looking at a chart -- coming from someone with a solid background in macro economics I'm pretty well aware of that. In fact I think most here are...

Last one, because I think this changes the trend since we are out of that channel. https://www.tradingview.com/x/gLibg0fW/ GL to everyone holding right now.