Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2016

[aznt1217]

Officially hit my cost basis. Crazy

 

[Fallenone]

good luck everyone!

 

[Irishjugg]

Cost basis at $140 from just about 2 years ago. It's just tricky-- for me it would be an accumulation/profit protection move (something versus nothing). I feel like we are too close to a catalyst with Model 3 around the corner.

Hmm. If the profit protection was actually very strong with you, selling some when we were bar all time high would have made a lot of sense. Did you do that? If not, then would the desire to do so now just be a reaction to your cost basis coming close to red for the first time in years? Agreed on catalyst, and I don't see anything changed for the negative with Tesla long term, so I'm holding. Cost basis of around 170 in one account and 221 in another account.

 

[Spidy]

Bloomberg and Marketwatch are huge offenders of manipulating graphs. This was another recent good one from Marketwatch (non TSLA related): View attachment 110932

That's not so bad. If you want to compare two stocks percentage wise that's just want you end up with. If you plot it with numbers you have the problem that one will be very tiny and you don't see any changes and just get a straight line.That $6 difference on HP would be the thickness of the line if you use the apple scale.

 

[aznt1217]

Hmm. If the profit protection was actually very strong with you, selling some when we were bar all time high would have made a lot of sense. Did you do that? If not, then would the desire to do so now just be a reaction to your cost basis coming close to red for the first time in years? Agreed on catalyst, and I don't see anything changed for the negative with Tesla long term, so I'm holding. Cost basis of around 170 in one account and 221 in another account.

essentially it would be a profit protection (well it was at least) and accumulation move. Granted part of it is emotional seeing +100% go to +3% in a span of a couple months...

 

[DarrenHD]

Hmm. If the profit protection was actually very strong with you, selling some when we were bar all time high would have made a lot of sense. Did you do that? If not, then would the desire to do so now just be a reaction to your cost basis coming close to red for the first time in years? Agreed on catalyst, and I don't see anything changed for the negative with Tesla long term, so I'm holding. Cost basis of around 170 in one account and 221 in another account.

I'm deep in the red as well but have a longer time horizon. I owned Apple stock a few years ago and saw huge swings in that stock, only to have it fully recover. It's the way the game is played. They want you to sell low so they can buy up shares ahead of the next run up. It's how they make money.

Bottom line is if you can afford it and believe in the company keep a long term horizon and don't be afraid to sell some when the stock is HIGH. Selling now when it is LOW is a rookie mistake, IMHO. I've done it myself but I refuse to let them take my shares at this price!

 

[maoing]

Relax LONGs, I think we'll see SP up in AH and Thursday as relief rally. But will slide to this level again next week. Good luck to everyone!

 

[FluxCap]

No more bets!

 

[aznt1217]

Here we go all. X marks the spot.

 

[phigment]

Here we go all. X marks the spot.

Tesla site slow now.... earnings avail at 4:00? Or at 5:30 with the call?

 

[allz]

Mhm.. i got in TSLA 2 years ago.. when it was 145.. what a ride.. gonna wait 2 or 3 more years till Model 3 is fully available

 

[farzyness]

Whoops - someone gave away 100 shares lol.

 

[tinm]

Only 289 users viewing this thread.... normally on earnings report days it's over 1000, isn't it?

 

[hershey101]

To those new around here, usually the letter is up around 4:25pm and the CC is at 5:30pm.. You'll know the letter is up by the huge after hrs spike/crash.

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Only 289 users viewing this thread.... normally on earnings report days it's over 1000, isn't it?

Give it time... It's still early.. Check back in about 40 min.

 

[techmaven]

Good luck everyone.

The deep V at end of day is very interesting to me... I don't quite know what it says, but interesting nevertheless.

 

[Gtoffo]

I like that the price is going down pre earnings.....let's hope this was the bottom.

May the force be with us.

 

[dmunjal]

Amazon $5B share buyback. Let the buybacks begin!

 

[aznt1217]

Tesla site slow now.... earnings avail at 4:00? Or at 5:30 with the call?

usually 4:12 or 15

 

[farzyness]

Someone traded 57,700 shares at 143.67. That's almost $9m.

 

[dmunjal]

So far CSCO and Whole Foods up on earnings.