shorts

I would like to understand who's shorting TSLA, and their rational. Please add to this thread if you have info.

Schadenfreude: pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. This story warms my heart :) Tesla short sellers lose $1.5 billion in a single day

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It's the only way to explain his otherwise self destructive behavior. He shorts the stock, acts crazy, calls people pedophiles, makes money. Sadly, this might be the most optimistic interpretation of his recent behavior.

Trust me, I've been laughing the whole time on this topic. But this morning, after reading multiple Elon tweets on Short-shorts, I imagined the tortoise doing a dance before the finish line which didn't feel like the ideal story ending. Something felt wrong. I don't think we've won yet, the...

TDLR; A short squeeze could easily pay for the whole takeover! I am going to lay out an interesting theory by first giving some facts as to Tesla and then telling the story of the Porsche takeover of VW. A bit of detail: There is about 25% of available Tesla stock that is on loan to shorts...

Very well said. I couldn't agree more. So here is the "what's next?": Let's collect a few ideas here. Mods, pls. merge if you feel this is better placed elsewhere. In my experience countering FUD on Twitter / in Forums is only helping so much. What is helping more is pledging (and following...