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Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2016

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It already is Vis-a-Vis SCTY arbitrage. Current at the .11 exchange is about $187 - picked some up at the open...

Right there with you Ken

Not that it matters...but I have been opposed to the timing of this deal all along. TM should concentrate on the core business and pick up SCTY for pennies, not dollars in 6 months or so.
 
In my view if tesla has a massive quarter they can raise all the money in the world.
At this point, that is practically a precondition to raising capital. Credibility restored, followed by
soft squeeze.

Well that is my hope, hope is the strategy.

Quarterly financials are probably less important for a while. Musk won't do an equity raise without announcing something like AP 2.0.

Most investors understand that S/X demand is a bit flaky with the model 3 announcement.
 
Right there with you Ken

Not that it matters...but I have been opposed to the timing of this deal all along. TM should concentrate on the core business and pick up SCTY for pennies, not dollars in 6 months or so.

So you completely discount Musk and JB saying that timing was dictated by the product cycle?

Not trying to dispute what you are saying in any way - everybody has their own opinions, just trying to understand which inputs you are considering and which ones you are discounting.
 
Interesting that Musk did not recuse himself from SolarCity Board votes. Perhaps he will also vote his SolarCity shares in the shareholder vote, which could make a difference, given SolarCity's much lower institutional ownership.
 
Quarterly financials are probably less important for a while. Musk won't do an equity raise without announcing something like AP 2.0.

Most investors understand that S/X demand is a bit flaky with the model 3 announcement.

Disagree on all counts. A stand out Q3 would boost confidence and credibility that people have been yammering about after each missed quarter of late. It would also show there's nothing flaky about S/X demand despite the handful of people who keep clinging to that life line even though the other end is attached to nothing more than air. Musk then doesn't have to announce anything additionally to get all the money he needs, never mind the fact that new features have never done a permanent thing for the SP or investor confidence on the market front.

Let's remember who the investors will be for the next round of capital. It ain't 'us'.
 
Elon Musk (@@elonmusk): Major improvements to Autopilot coming with V8.0 and 8.1 software (std OTA update) primarily through advanced processing of radar signals

Elon Musk (@@elonmusk): Writing post now with details. Will publish on Tesla website later today.

Elon Musk (@@elonmusk): We need to do one more minor rev on 8.0 and then will go to wide release in a few weeks
 
Under SEC Rule 14a-13 firms are required to notify broker and bank recordholders at least 20 business days before record dates (or less if impracticable)


Notice that phrase "or less if impracticable". Basically if the firm knows what the record date is 20 business days in advance they're required to notify the banks and brokers. If the firm does *not* know 20 days in advance, they are instead required to notify the banks and brokers as soon as they set the record date. They can still set a record date which is 5 days in the future, or even in the past, and promptly notify the banks and brokers as soon as they set the date.

Setting a record date in the past is usually undesirable for a number of reasons including recall of loaned stock, but it *has* been done. I vaguely remember one which was set three months in the past. I don't remember why exactly, but it had to do with weird stock manipulation during those three months... this was back in the days when updating the record ownership could take a long time and they were certain they had good records for three months ago, but there was weirdness going on during the last three months with ownership records not being updated properly, so they were worried that if they used a later record date they'd have stock double-counted or not counted at all.
 
Elon Musk (@@elonmusk): Major improvements to Autopilot coming with V8.0 and 8.1 software (std OTA update) primarily through advanced processing of radar signals

Elon Musk (@@elonmusk): Writing post now with details. Will publish on Tesla website later today.

Elon Musk (@@elonmusk): We need to do one more minor rev on 8.0 and then will go to wide release in a few weeks

He wanted to save the stock price. miserable.
 
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