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  1. WentOffGrid

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Just celebrated 18 months sober yesterday, after 40 years of continuous drinking. Kicked an additional addictive habit along the way. I am a new, better person. It was worth the hard work. Congrats on taking the step!
  2. WentOffGrid

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    I've been concentrating on today's results... :D
  3. WentOffGrid

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Sounds like great not an advice so we went ahead and took it :)
  4. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    It gives flexibility in customer color choice right at the end.
  5. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    I think they would e-coat the BIW first. Then no corrosion issues.
  6. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    They have had their moments of glory through FUD and have celebrated. Not a sustainable celebration however. Now it's our turn to celebrate, and it will be sustainable in more way than one. :cool:
  7. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    I picked a bad time to stop drinking.... This is some serious good news! :)
  8. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    I didn't think we would have any meaningful MMD today, but sorta glad we did. Just used up the last of my dry powder. :)
  9. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    I was always taught "3 lefts makes a right" but 3 of him is a horrible thought with this creep people call a snake. We need a different animal to describe him, snakes are good; an essential balance in nature. You know, eating rats and that sort of stuff... Looks like some rats are getting...
  10. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Finally punched through 290 after a big battle Almost 13M shares traded! Great live show...:)
  11. WentOffGrid

    Papafox's Daily TSLA Trading Charts

    Looks like a change to their strategy, with the flip. Amazing that they get away with this, and constantly repeat the cycle. I enjoy seeing these real facts come out to a big audience from those who almost always tell lies. Profit by lies is their only motivator, and they are not good people.
  12. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Looks like a real not-a-fake-bankwupcy is going to happen... Hate giving them clicks but this one is worth it Faraday Future lays off part of its workforce, cuts wages of the rest Edit- I thought that was Bumbleberg, ok to click for all
  13. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Very close mirror indeed: NASDAQ TSLA
  14. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    (Pre) Market Action - - Smallish volume, but interesting cap at the top with 262.0000 as a ruler-flat number. And then a quick punch in the face to go back up when some biggish sale took it down to 258.0100 Not enough market knowledge to say what went on, but it is interesting to watch this sort...
  15. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Minor clarification... e-coating is not electrostatic like powder coating. There are no high voltages (like 6-10kV for powder) involved. It is more like anodizing or plating. Fairly high currents in the rectifiers for e-coating (all DC) unlike powder application where those power supplies are...
  16. WentOffGrid

    Major Colision Repair, Whats your experience?

    "It depends" is the answer. Sounds like the hinge may have pulled a structural member a bit out of whack, lots of lever there. Did you look at the parts list cost and what items the labor was? Recently got my S back from the repair shop; big deer hit drivers side front. I thought around $8K in...
  17. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    My wag is that there are three people involved, depending on mood... Elon, Bored-Elon, and Not-An-Elon. :p
  18. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Yes. From the article- "Most dealers have their entire net worth sunk into a dealership so it was important for us to know what's going on,"
  19. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Yup! And my "Lucky Thirteen" hit very near that dip :cool: Not much powder left, but grab whatever I can
  20. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Yeah, if the MMD is over. Last time I predicted something it went opposite. What to do???
  21. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Hope MMD has ended. I finally got the timing close to pick up more shares. Dry powder just arrived last night :D
  22. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Stay calm... this is only a test of the MMD, just 4 minutes early.
  23. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Volume is way down, less than half of normal. Does not appear like there was any meaningful short pushes. The stock is a bargain. People are buying it up in the face of a down market. My uneducated guess
  24. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Macros down (except gold :p), TSLA up .4% :)
  25. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    260.0000 was hit and could not hold
  26. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Oh wait, green again!:)
  27. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    You had to say it...
  28. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Low volume pre-market pojama trading, ~31K shares. Spikey too.
  29. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Well I for one am an exception to what you wrote and I take offense to it. And no, I am not looking for anybody to feel sorry for me, I simply did (do) not know what I am doing. You are tarring everybody with your brush! The first time I bought ANY stock was after The Tweet. (Imagine, THIS is...
  30. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Me too, I am not good at this... but by staying long, a few $ should not be significant enough to worry over. Looking at it continue to fall still makes me angry even though I know darn well it will go back up to new levels. :cool:
  31. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Just added some hay to my long pile! :) Been saving some powder for $298, after the delivery numbers I didn't think it would get that low. Love that MMD (sometimes...)
  32. WentOffGrid

    Computer History and Advocacy Thread

    My business in 1983 ran on a CBM256 with quad-stacked 8050's wired with IEEE-488. Fun times! Related to the history part, I collect core and other cool old tech. IBM 700 series, Russian, etc.
  33. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Wish I knew what dip to buy at. Can I borrow somebody's crystal ball??? This stock gives a new meaning to volatility... Already been cut with that falling knife before. I have plenty of dry powder coming, liquidating other things because this is too good of an opportunity to pass up. Stay...
  34. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Yes, and hit $300 a couple of times today! :)
  35. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    The battle for $295 is raging.
  36. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Wow, what a big jump up in a small period of time. If it holds/goes higher, you will definitely see shaking in those shorties.
  37. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    That happened to me around the same time out in AZ. My car was badged a 75 but the price was a 60. They wound up changing the badge. I still enjoy the faster supercharging and money to buy more TSLA
  38. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Already hocked the farm at $279, too late for me. Got cut with that friggin' falling knife. Again. <sigh> when will I learn? But on the bright side, there is plenty of up side. Just wish I could buy more at these lows.
  39. WentOffGrid

    General Discussion: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    MB's engineering team is one of the best in the world. Unfortunately for them, the product management team is guiding what they do. And Zetsche is who guides product management. Time to market being a forced constraint, they are not looking at this with a truly long-term view. Just throwing $B's...
  40. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Have been picking up shares at dips on the way down, to help make up for when I bought at $350. Looking at my average price going down makes me feel warm :) especially when the long future is bright! I recently got a boatload (well, a really big container ship load) at $285 and if it goes down...
  41. WentOffGrid

    Tesla is an Undervalued Growth Juggernaut

    A whole lotta CAPEX is needed for those sorts of numbers. Takes expensive factories (and expensive IP) to make the best transportation. But that's one of the reasons I like TSLA, and why I will always be one of the longs... they invest in the type of infrastructure that I believe in!
  42. WentOffGrid

    ISS had a leak caused by Russian orbital module

    Looks like the fix worked. It's held pressure perfect. "Flight controllers at their respective Mission Control centers in Houston and Moscow worked together with the crew to effect a repair option in which Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos used epoxy on a gauze wipe to plug the hole...
  43. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    What's "diversification"? :D
  44. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Fortunately, I am done thinking about heavying up on the stock. Going on a buying binge today!!
  45. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Sing to me, baby!!! :)
  46. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Yup, gold plated bottom plate. Easily unscrewed.;)
  47. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Found some dry powder under the mattress :) Can't...… wait..... too... excited..... Normally I wait for the morning dip
  48. WentOffGrid

    TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

    Bang-BOOM! Took a big-caliber shot at 293 with all the powder I had. "Hope is not a strategy, but it is the only thing that made sense to me this morning" -Bob