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

[Todd Burch]

Looks like somebody doesn't want TSLA in the $1600s.

 

[M|S|M MYP]

Guess everyone has to put the roadster 2.0 on hold for now.....

 

[UnknownSoldier]

Looks like someone is trying to keep it capped at $1600...

 

[c041v]

TT has "stormed out" of TMC at least 6-8 times in the past. He will be back. Comparing him to Fact Checking and KarenRei is insulting to them. They have provided an infinite amount of more useful analysis and information than him.

There's probably a better way to put this, but some folks just can't adult no matter what the balance of their bank account is. This place can be trying during both the good and bad times, which seems counter-intuitive, but I guess wherewithal can have some strange effects.

There's so many childhood lessons that apply for behaving one's self online. "Treat others the way you would want to be treated", "If you don't have anything nice to say." and many more simple rules to leave the place better than you found it.

I try to think of this thread as a big campfire where everyone has a turn to talk, and everyone (unless you are highly liberal with the ignore button) sort of has to listen, at least for a second until you scroll past. Some people talk more often and loudly, and that is quite okay as there is a LOT of pearls of wisdom to catch, but others seemingly shout over others with no consideration for other people's time - and considering the net worth of some of the folks on here, even reading this post probably costs thousands of dollars in TMC member-time. I know this thread is not supposed to be pure knowledge and insight, but if all you do is shout and add very little wisdom, people just get tired of hearing your voice, no matter what it is you have to say or how well you are doing. All it shows us is that you can't read the room.

How you present something says a lot about how you think.

 

[Todd Burch]

I get the feeling that the price will naturally have to gravitate back up toward the close as any manipulative positions would have to be closed back out...so we might see a rise toward close today.

 

[StealthP3D]

Many disagree ratings with my comment when TT stormed out, I had similar feelings even if I dint post them when @KarenRei and @Fact Checking left.

I think its always a shame when infighting leads to storming out under temper, and calls of "don't let the door hit you on the way out"

Reasoned discussion takes many viewpoints. We now have one less point of view, regardless of the morality of being a day trader, long or short. That's the loss, and it bothers me that some celebrate it. He wasn't a troll, he was just in it for the money not the mission.

Ah well it takes all kinds of people to make an energy revolution.

I really suspect TT was trying to manipulate the most widely read Tesla investment forum on the Internet for his own profit goals. I do think he was making big bets and he felt he might as well do everything in his power to help change investor sentiment in his favor. That was his goal when he first predicted TSLA to the moon, and that was his goal when he stormed out of here. I suspect he converted his calls into puts before he left.

 

[LJS22]

Relax relax...shorts are the ones trying to make back their losses. Any sign of a reversal and they’ll bail. That’s going to create another surge. We got shares and they are headed in one direction...up! A little pullback is fine.

 

[Silentk]

 

[EdKan]

I hope that's not a serious question.

Embarrassingly, it was! Kind of. Your answer could be no, never has been. Or it could be yes, many others have been like this. You're not dealing with an experienced investor here

 

[Todd Burch]

A little pullback is fine.

In the course of an hour, we dropped by what was more than the entire market cap of TSLA about a year ago. Hard to believe we now call that "a little pullback", lol.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to change my shorts.

 

[Unpilot]

Just for the record....I do not live in front of my screen staring at both the stock ticker and TMC forums at the same time while drinking coffee in the morning.
Then while eating lunch and later while drinking a beer.


at least not EVERY day

 

[jerry33]

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That looks relaxing after a day with TSLA.

 

[vikings123]

Looks like someone is trying to keep it capped at $1600...

Not for too long, it seems like we have had a few tries already. I think MMs keeping a lid so they can rebalance options.

edit: There it goes lol

 

[JRP3]

Well, he's banned, so...

Finally, long overdue. Dude was obviously unhinged, shudder to think he might be a Dr

Anything else interesting happening since I've been away?

 

[madodel]

Has there seriously ever been a stock as volatile as this???

I'm sure there are others but before AAPL split the last time it would climb and drop $100's a share in a day. I've been long AAPL for 20 years and I have to say there were times I just stopped looking at the ticker for weeks because the price was nauseating. Hell 2008 I stopped looking for months. Never sold except for half my initial shares pre split-split when my Fidelity advisor wouldn't stop calling me and telling me I had too much AAPL. Learned the hard way you can never have too much AAPL and now can never have too much TSLA. Not an advice.

 

[HG Wells]

what caused the macro's to take a dump?

Probably this.
June deficit sets record at $864 billion

The federal deficit set a new record in June, hitting a whopping $864 billion as coronavirus relief funds rolled out of the Treasury.

 

[mejojo]

I know one that has made over $100 million in Tesla stock

and he doesn’t like to see people suffer.

I know several who are enjoying their BMWs and Benz's.

 

[lafrisbee]

They decide who lives or dies I guess. All we can do is go along for the ride. In the end, big money controls the markets. Small fish like us, we swim with the whales and sharks and try to not get eaten.

we are remoras.!

 

[avoigt]

What is the best place here for autonomous driving relates questions?

 

[Mo City]

Even if there was news to explain the price changes there would be a 99.X% chance it was some stupid, irrelevant news like "Price drop was due to demand issues" or some other nonsense that didn't even move the needle on Tesla's mission. REAL news comes in just about every day, news that helps us understand Tesla's lead, their increasing manufacturing efficiency and capacity, etc. Much of the time the share price might yawn at it but it is the bigger picture it all paints that tells us the true value of the company.

I meant legit news.

The news that I'm most concerned about involve (1) COVID's effect on the U.S. and global economies, (2) various China stuff and (3) Giga Berlin progress. The first two are most important.

Unless I forgot something, anything outside of those 3 does not matter much. If the huge drop today was due to anything else, <fart sound>. Example, as a long, the MM talk here is of no interest to me at all. That may change down the line in a few years when TSLA's approaches my sell point.