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

[MP3Mike]

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[StealthP3D]

I’m up more this week in TSLA than I made at my job last year

My TSLA value is up today more than I made in the most productive 10-year period of my blue-collar working career!

But don't let the speed of the gains fool you - this Buy and Hold investing is hard work!

 

[Sudre]

Well, looks like they’re losing that game today

No. Actually they won. They crashed the stock price. The cost of the Call THEY needed to buy back went down to $10-20. Then the retail was force sold out of the $850 strike Calls they owned. That relieved THEM since they no longer had to pay out those Calls so they stopped holding the price down and let it return right where it was.

(edits) Sorry about what looked like drunk typing. HONEST I was sober!)

 

[Prunesquallor]

Ladies and gents, dogs and cats, here’s to an eventful week. Tumultuous in the US but glorious in the province of TSLA. While every week won’t be like this one, the future looks bright.

Top shelf, rocks no salt. Life is too short for cheap tequila.

 

[redan]

Bullet 2 would seem to make it useless unless extremely close to expiry or extremely deep in the money. I'll try it out at the next appropriate time, but that won't be until Feb 4 (Jun 17 '22 $150 Call, bought for $41.60, up 1666%).

Sounds useless to me, given bullet #2. If bullet #2 required the time value to be under $0.65 (the threshold for free option closes), that'd make at least a little bit of sense to me.

The ITM requirements does make sense to me.

Yes, after @MP3Mike posted earlier about this new feature, I went ahead and exercised 5 x March 19, 2021 $220 options. This went off without a hitch - obviously a decent amount of time value left, but I was going to exercise these no matter what to add to my holdings and wanted to start the capital gains clock ticking. Everything worked - I don't know about the prohibitions listed in bullet 2 - I exercised before E*TRADE sent me the same note in my account.

 

[ByeByeJohnny]

No. Actually they won. They crashed the stock price. The cost of the Call THEY needed to buy back when done to $10-20. Then they retail was force solid out of the $850 strike Calls they owned. That relieved THEM since they no longer had to pay out those Calls so they stopped holding the price down and let it return right where it was.

Since 'they' always seems to win. I need to ask how come they don't already have 'all' the money. If they can do this for all the stocks all the time how come anyone else in the stock market has any money left?

Has there been any week ever that this hasn't happened? Because I don't recall anyone reporting that they failed.

They really should have all the billions by now.

 

[Mo City]

So ill put it out there, I don't think we should split again. Reason: all the FUDsters get to use the exact same TSLA is overpriced articles they used 7 months ago and don't even have to change the numbers in the article. Lets at least make em work a little..

My 2 cents is they should do one more split after crossing $2000 again. 10:1 or 20:1 this time.

If TSLA was then added to the DJIA, would be so sweet to boot off the company that has been there the longest: Exxon (92 years). A strong symbolic statement on how things are changing.

 

[StealthP3D]

So, $880 on Jan 8, 2021 just 5 trading days into the new year—I’m calling it. She’s 3 for 3. If it goes to $1,200 by springtime 2021; *our* springtime, Australia’s springtime, Mars’s springtime I don’t care who’s springtime, every single one of you need to start playing her lottery numbers.

Are you sure you weren't a $TSLAQ fool in one of your former lives?

Because that's the most moving of the goalposts I've seen since Gordon Johnson said Tesla wasn't breaking his production projections because some of the cars were built in a new factory!

 

[mltv]

Nikola up 30% from their low 2 weeks ago
I wonder what logic people use to invest in them

ridding on PLUG run up.

 

[Todd Burch]

Toyota vs. Tesla SP comparison over the past year:

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Conservative company, conservative price change.

 

[Causalien]

Pretty much anyone that comes and hangs out on this forum for while who does not own 20,000 shares of TSLA and another 100 LEAPs that they purchased at least two years ago is going to feel poor and stupid.

I have killed it the past two years and compared to what I infer around here, I feel poor and stupid.

This is an elite crew. And that is not even counting all the fine contributors from over the years who do not bother to show up anymore because they are too busy swimming around in their vaults like Scrooge McDuck.

Let us take a moment to consider how this all started. A bunch of pie in the sky EV fanatics showed up and bought Teslas, usually sight unseen, cause they were mad as hell and they were not going to take it anymore. By anyone paying attention, they were simply considered mad.

Yeah, they bought some stock as well (my first purchase was at 27 pre split. Wish I could say I still had those particular shares. They were replaced by many others but....sigh). That was just for fun and to dream.

Dreams of a profitable company and a rocketing share price sure, but also of a world renewed.

Let’s keep dreaming.

Ahh, the good ol evangelica days... I remember rage buying tesla shares everytime ppl called me names.

 

[Sudre]

Since 'they' always seems to win. I need to ask how come they don't already have 'all' the money. If they can do this for all the stocks all the time how come anyone else in the stock market has any money left?

Has there been any week ever that this hasn't happened? Because I don't recall anyone reporting that they failed.

They really should have all the billions by now.

You obviously don't read this forum for content. There have been a few time people pointed out THEY lost. It is just not that often. I am guessing you have never been to a Casino. Not many Casinos go bankrupt for a reason. They make the money off the premiums. There are times when they make a killing and there are times they just make a small amount.

 

[JRP3]

This is an elite crew. And that is not even counting all the fine contributors from over the years who do not bother to show up anymore because they are too busy swimming around in their vaults like Scrooge McDuck.

I like to pop up for air once in a while.

Top shelf, rocks no salt. Life is too short for cheap tequila.

Salt on a margarita is an abomination.

 

[Artful Dodger]

After-action Report: Fri, Jan 08, 2021: (Full Day's Trading)

Headline: "TSLA Extends Winning Streak amidst Model 2 Factory Rumors"

Traded: $65,093,085,448.36 ($65.09B)
Volume: 75,113,432
VWAP: $866.60

Close: $880.02 / VWAP: 101.57%
TSLA closed ABOVE today's Avg SP
TSLA MaxPain (7:00 A.M.): $745 (+$30 from Thu)

TSLA S&P 500 Weight: 1.929095% (Jan 07)
Mkt Cap: TSLA / FB $834.172B / 762.117B = 109.45%
Note: Yahoo Finance yet to update TSLA Mkt Cap re shares issued Dec 11th (SEC Filing)
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CEO Comp. Status: (est'd Mkt Cap including Dec 11th shares)

TSLA 30-day Closing Avg Market Cap: $659.13B
TSLA 6-mth Closing Avg Market Cap: $428.95B

Mkt Cap req'd for 7th tranche ($400B) likely achieved on Tue, Dec 29, 2020
Nota Bene: Operational milestones are req'd for this tranche.
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'Short' Report:

FINRA Volume / Total NASDAQ Vol = 47.2% (46th Percentile rank FINRA Reporting)
FINRA Short / Total Volume = 60.9% (56th Percentile rank Shorting)
FINRA Short Exempt ratio was 0.61% of Short Volume (47th Percentile Rank Exempt)​

Comment: "It's not the bullets that kill; it's the pace (of innovation)."

QOTD: @Prunesquallor "Always keep a bird in the silo..."

View all Lodger's After-Action Reports

Cheers!

 

[dakh]

Ladies and gents, dogs and cats, here’s to an eventful week. Tumultuous in the US but glorious in the province of TSLA. While every week won’t be like this one, the future looks bright.

Top shelf, rocks no salt. Life is too short for cheap tequila.

Speaking of which, my Tesla Tequila is still nowhere to be seen. I'm guessing sandbagging deliveries is only applicable to cars at Tesla, not booze. Would be nice to get it today!

 

[Cape Coddess]

Good night, Alex.

 

[ByeByeJohnny]

You obviously don't read this forum for content. There have been a few time people pointed out THEY lost. It is just not that often. I am guessing you have never been to a Casino. Not many Casinos go bankrupt for a reason. They make the money off the premiums. There are times when they make a killing and there are times they just make a small amount.

The irony. I made the money I invested here from playing poker ...

 

[Artful Dodger]

Supervisor: 'I need you to come in early this week to finish a project'
Me: 'I don't think so'
Supervisor: 'Maybe you didn't understand me. I NEED you to come in early. Your job security is on the line.'
Me: 'I own Tesla stock'
Supervisor: 'Oh.... come in when you can'

Yeah, that's called having "eff-ewe" money. I told my last boss that 12 years ago...

John Goodman explains most eloquently in The Gambler: (1:01)

Cheers!

 

[EV forever]

So, $880 on Jan 8, 2021 just 5 trading days into the new year—I’m calling it. She’s 3 for 3. If it goes to $1,200 by springtime 2021; *our* springtime, Australia’s springtime, Mars’s springtime I don’t care who’s springtime, every single one of you need to start playing her lottery numbers.

Are you sure you weren't a $TSLAQ fool in one of your former lives?

Because that's the most moving of the goalposts I've seen since Gordon Johnson said Tesla wasn't breaking his production projections because some of the cars were built in a new factory!

Kudos to your mom @Krugerrand for calling it this closely - she is now the official prophet for TMC .

So next target, 1200 by Springtime. I will be perfectly happy with whichever springtime that meant to reach 1200
Our Springtime: 20 March
Australian Springtime: 23 Sept
Mars springtime: No freaking clue, but there is a Mars Drive in Texas - so I will take that as 20 March as well

 

[Discoducky]

Ahh, the good ol evangelica days... I remember rage buying tesla shares everytime ppl called me names.

Did the same.
Friends: "Did you see the big drop today?"
Me: yeah
Friends: Aren't you selling?
Me: No, I'm buying, it's on sale today (so I'd login and buy X shares, sometimes up to 100 to prove my point...ugh, that got expensive)
Friends: dude
Me: wanna drive my S?
Friends: nah, I'm good.

So many never bought, but some did and they are super happy