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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Hope weak longs keep selling, that means more shares for me at "discounted" price.... Tesla "Elon" is a buy and hold until Elon goes to Mars... :)
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    A fancy way for GS to say Tesla is overvalued..
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    This downward movement is only a correction... One car catching on fire did not cause the stock to drop 10%. One trade analyst downgrade did not cause the drop. Window dressing by itself at the end of the quarter did not cause the drop. Washington being the typical do nothing self serving...
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    Model S Accident/Fire

    And it begins.... " The investigation concerns whether Tesla and certain of its officers and/or directors have violated Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.* In an August 19, 2013 press release, Tesla touted its Model S as having achieved the "best safety rating of...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Funny how most of interweb news says the Baird downgrade caused the fall in stock..
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    While the sheepole are thinking the sky is falling and selling. I see it as buying time!
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    This is a tri-level autorack used for shipping 12-15 finished automobiles. These railcars would be spotted (parked) in loading loading facility. Normally, 5 railcars strings for loading and unloading. The doors are opened and bridge plates are placed between railcars for the vehicles drive...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    The Federal Railroad Administration might view shipping Teslas differently than ICE because of gasoline. That could be why they ship the battery packs separately. Times are changing..
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    12 years working for Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific shipping finished vehicles. 1) finished motor vehicles are NEVER shipped on flat cars, or in cargo containers. 2) finished motor vehicles are shipped in autorack railcars that have cushioned couplers. This prevents damage to vehicles in...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Long term you have to focus more on 6 month and year graphs.. As long as they are still generally going up, your good.. Long term investors can't look at 1 and 5 day graphs, you will get nauseous looking at the roller coaster..
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    Texas, North Carolina, Colorado, New York and Virginia, have similar anti-Tesla legislation pending, according to the Yahoo report. These states will not allow Tesla to sell their product directly to consumers...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Volume over a million in an hour...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    I agree, my trust company is allocating more of my portfolio into Tesla. It is frustrating because of instead of buying as much as they can at a low point, they are doing average up buying.. "By purchasing smaller amounts on the way up—hence the term pyramiding, which obviously starts out with...
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    Here is an example: Tesla having the audacity to want to sell its cars directly to the consumer, instead of going through a middle-man, Bill Wolters, the president of the Texas Automobile Dealers Association, told the press that this kind of thing happens all the time, stating. . . “Someone...
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    Not say Tesla or EM would follow the same fate by lack of business savvy. Attacks from the old guard US auto, oil, and petroleum industries. Tesla and EM are getting closer to changing the automotive industry at all levels. Which in turn would affect the pocketbooks of these industries. It is...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Computer malfunctions disrupted trading at U.S. exchanges today, with all three options markets run by Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. halting transactions after NYSE Arca canceled some live orders earlier. Nasdaq said in alerts posted on its website that trading on its options exchanges had been halted...
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    Yes.. You are correct...
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    51 production cars and 7 test mules.. So a total of 58 (1947-1948)..
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    I do not believe that the company will fail from inside... If it did fail it would be from outside sources.. As it was mentioned during Q2 conference call.. " We have production constraints, not demand constraint. " " We are not trying to push it higher than that because it's kind of...
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    By the spring of 1948, the initial public offering of the stock had only raised $15 million, rather than the expected $20 million. $15,000,000.00 in 1948 dollars are worth $116,977,526.12 in 2013. While not $17 billion, Tucker did have $116,977,526.12 (in current dollars) to produce his...
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    Yes it was.. I just hate to see something like this happen to Tesla. Since Tesla is picking a bigger fight (all the automotive companies, oil/gas industries, and certain parts government (at least the lobbyist that control the puppets))...
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    Why reinvent the wheel? I should have quoted the source.. So many of Preston's ideas just like Elon's ideas where/are ahead of the time. Most people laughed and thought they were ridiculous and unnecessary. Just like many of the ICE owners think about EV. Look at how many ideas of Tuckers...
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    Is Tesla going to end up like Tucker Motors?

    In 1948, a visionary named Preston Tucker tried to change the automotive industry. Some components and features of the car were innovative and ahead of their time. 1) The most recognizable feature of the Tucker '48, a directional third headlight (known as the "Cyclops Eye" ), would activate...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    With TSLA joining MSCI world index on August 30th. Will this help or hurt NASDAQ stock prices? Or when it gets introduced on the NASDAQ 100? How will these key benchmark indexes affect TSLA stock prices?
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    I agree.. If you look at charts 1 day - sideways 5 days - down 30 days - up 6 months - up 1 year - up
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Chance of going sideways/flat (135-145 range) until Q3?
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Long target 160.84 Stop 131.90 15.4% profit Short target 125.7 Cover 147.76 9.8% profit
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Boy the mood around here sure changed in a matter of 5 days.. It is still a great innovative company, sure the stock prices have taken a beating. It is still up 300%+ from this time last year..
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Still beating 50 day moving average of $126...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Besides Jaguar? None
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    Tesla Demonstration Event Richmond, VA

    Which to me makes no sense why Virginia and West Virginia are coal producing states. You would think they would be all over the Tesla, since there are so many coal fired generators..
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    Model S: Clever Vanity Plates

    Saw this one today...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Living in the golden era of Bank of Coca Cola. These new fangled computers take the fun out of it..
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    What are the chances of a split of the stock?
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    My uneducated guess would be the energy storage will be the 50+ battery pack at each swap station along the hyperloop route..
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    Tesla to produce all-wheel drive Model S sedan next year

    Tesla S AWD I have seen several articles referring to it on the inter-webs http://www.gtspirit.com/2013/08/10/report-all-wheel-drive-tesla-model-s-coming-next-year/ No mention of it during Q2 conference call, or shareholders documents..
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    Resolved: second row crash test doubts

    I agree.. The first post I posted on here I was called a troll..
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    Resolved: second row crash test doubts

    My point is with a company like Tesla a small negative story like the Raptor frame issue will picked up by the media. Anything with Tesla or Elon Musk is going to be news worthy.. Example being seeking alpha who has been pumping out negative stories about Tesla and getting 13,000-20,000+ views.
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    Resolved: second row crash test doubts

    If you do not think "news", media, investors, Tesla watches these forums. Then you are sadly mistaken.. I will give you a great personal example.. A LARGE percentage of the members that participated in the Raptor Run from Barstow to Vegas, ended up bending the frames on their F150 Raptors...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    The only way you will get supercharger speed is from products directly from Tesla. "On the DC charge protocol, that is protected IP and unfortunately not open to disclosure." James C. Chen | Director of Public Policy & Associate General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs Washington Office* | 1050...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    One thing I have learned about this stock, company and Elon. If someone say "it can't be done", they end up doing just that..
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    Tesla Demonstration Event Richmond, VA

    I will bet money Jeb (jebzter) had something to do with it.. Damn Bullrun guys can't take them anywhere!
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    Q2 Transcript

    Yea, left out that, the shuffling paper, and barking dog... Lol
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    I posted the entire Q2 transcript in a new thread so it didn't clutter this one... http://www.TeslaMotorsClub.com/showthread.php?p=406364
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    Q2 Transcript

    Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA) Q2 2013 Earnings Call August 07, 2013, 5:30 pm ET Executives Jeff Evanson - Investor Relations Elon Musk - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Product Architect Deepak Ahuja - Chief Financial Officer Analysts Patrick Archambault - Goldman Sachs Andrea...
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Amen to that brother!
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    Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2013

    Hell, I am just happy with my 1000 shares at $136.. Made a nice little change today (after hours)..