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

[Todd Burch]

Ihor Dusaniwsky on Twitter

$TSLA short int is $13.69bn ; 27.82mm shs shorted; 20.79% of float; 0.30% borrow fee. Shs shorted up +464k shs, +1.7%, over last 30 days as price rose +45% & up +132k shs,+0.5%, last week. Shorts down -$2.02bn in January mark-to-market losses after being down -$632mm yesterday.

Short: Excuse me, dear financial manager, can I please have a little bit more rope to hang myself?

Shocking. Jeez people, isn't your goal to make money?

Catching a falling knife is bad.

So is trying to hold down a rising balloon.

 

[Artful Dodger]

Upper-BB opened at $497.26 today, and increase of $15.69 over yesterday ($481.57).

TSLA building its own headroom for gains rapidly.

Cheers!

 

[Todd Burch]

Covered his position from 20% to 10% to 5%

Teslaconomics on Twitter

I'm sure he'll recover all his losses with that 5% though.

 

[Pezpunk]

Covered his position from 20% to 10% to 5%

Teslaconomics on Twitter

Spiegel saying "When I noticed the decoupling from reality, I decided to slash our TSLA position to 10%" is like the the captain of the Titanic saying "After hitting the iceburg, I decided to submerge the vessel."

 

[Chickenlittle]

Totally agree, but I can only hope we are nearing the point where the loony "TSLA is a zero/fraud/etc" crowd become marginalized and future battles will mostly be over valuation...

I agree. My purpose in posting the comment was to avoid others using the short interest stats to determine when a short squeeze will be over

 

[Todd Burch]

MMD appears to have been even less effective today, though it's still early.

 

[Chickenlittle]

Wonder if we'll get an ER date announced tomorrow or Monday....

I believe that will depend on share price. If it continues to rise I believe they will wait, no reason to rock the boat. I would, based on previous report dates there will be more volatility leading up to the date

 

[steak&chicken]

Covered his position from 20% to 10% to 5%

Teslaconomics on Twitter

Spiegel didn't cover it voluntary. His broker covered for him. That's forced margin call covering. Just like when his broker forced covered for him from 20% to 10%. You think that lunatic Spiegel has any common sense to do that himself?

 

[ZachF]

Mark Spiegel is right about there being a bubble in Tesla...

however, it was a bubble of negativity, leading to stupid high short interest, that is now popping.

 

[Electroman]

That's comparable to what Tesla paid for NUMMI...

But that (Fremont purchase) is with the factory building not just an empty land

 

[LN1_Casey]

MMD appears to have been even less effective today, though it's still early.

Ya jinxed it.

 

[larmor]

At what point, if any, SP for TSLA will there be additional capex funding or raise for upcoming GFx? What is the status of solar at Buffalo GF? Will there be another solar GF coming? Presumably the blueprint of GF3 at Shanghai is the pathway forward to additional continental GF after Germany...

 

[Right_Said_Fred]

But that (Fremont purchase) is with the factory building not just an empty land

It's a lot less than the 973 million Chinese yuan ($140 million) they paid for the GF3 plot. But that is a 50 year rental, so lower in immediate costs. Still, I think Tesla got a very good deal for GF4.

 

[Zextraterrestrial]

MMD appears to have been even less effective today, though it's still early.

if anything like the last few open/pre looks- super red on open vs green, today will dip hard and then go up ~$100 (because volume is way larger now + that % is relatively smaller) wishful thinking that what I was seeing in the last weeks charts holds the same now anyway....hmm, maybe that was just Xmas i was thinking of lol

 

[Artful Dodger]

Paging @Cherry Wine

How's that order book looking at the $500 level? ie: how tall is this hill? TIA.

Cheers!

 

[Singuy]

Two downgrades today causing the drop but my prediction is people doesn't give a F by tomorrow.

 

[ZachF]

Spiegel didn't cover it voluntary. His broker covered for him. That's forced margin call covering. Just like when his broker forced covered for him from 20% to 10%. You think that lunatic Spiegel has any common sense to do that himself?

Yep.

If you have an average short "buy-in" of $280, you're already looking at 75%+ losses in your position. (20% to 5%)

His covering is forced to prevent losses of over 100%. He is just a lying slimeball, his broker covered all the positions entered under $280.

 

[CyberDutchie]

Ya jinxed it.

looks like roughly 2 million shares dumped within 5 min to push the price down $10

 

[JRP3]

MMD appears to have been even less effective today, though it's still early.

 

[printf42]

My “rage buy” finger is hovering again...