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

[Mo City]

The real run starts when we see the new FSD software in a few weeks. The hype will carry it to $1 trillion valuation this year. Why do you think your short shorts are delayed?

If everyone agrees it's really a "quantum leap" and the market concludes Tesla will achieve autonomy within a couple of years, this is not out of the realm of possiblity IMO.

 

[phantasms]

Happy 4:20 PM to my fellow East coast

What promotes the tried and true "buy and hold" even better than steady upward action is a series of volatile moves that prove to people they really can't time the market with any consistency. Because you not only need to sell when it's significantly higher but also manage to buy when it's significantly lower, on a consistent basis.

I agree this stock has become less predicable as of late. In my short term account, instead of sitting in cash then timing the buy and sell of TSLA, which I did very well with I now instead sit in TSLA, and temporarily go to cash and buy back in on the predicable dip. This way when the stock suddenly decides to go up $200 on some random day at 2pm I don't miss out. lol

 

[BlackS]

How to follow the intraday action in TSLA
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So this is the breakthrough COVID social distancing treatment they have been looking for!

 

[Nocturnal]

i had a much simpler idea in mind ... to keep the fridges and some lights and computer running with CT built in generator ... basically what i did last month with gasoline generator thoughts?

Depends on how many amps it can support but I think a couple appliances and a few lights shouldn't be an issue. I have a small gas generator just for my reef aquarium (several thousand dollars worth of fish and coral in there) and I'm planning on the CT at least covering that.

 

[BlackS]

For the last 10 trading days including today, $TSLA is up +$640...give or take

 

[S3XY]

This has been my concern since Tesla started to sell the Model S in Europe and Asia. In those countries the Model S is too big for cities to park in the street or inside inderground parking lots.
The Model 3 is not really shorter than the Model S, and don't have a hatch back. The Model Y is even bigger than the Model 3.
I wonder if Tesla use any focus group or even use a little bit of common sense.
Honestly I am a little bit surprised and even frustrated in some way.
So the next car made after the Model S was the Model X. Well it tooks many years to deliver it because of the falcom doors. The idea of those doors was to avoid using a sliding door. However if you have a six seats, you pass by the center to access the 3rd row. So the falcon doors are not so needed.There is even a 5 seats version. This shows that there is a market for regular door. Making a Model X with regular doors like a Range Rover would be great and this explain the success of the Audi e-tron compared to the Model X in Europe. (see numbers above).
So after again many years the Model 3 was introduced, but everyone were making comments about the sedan style selected instead of the hatch back. So certainly not a vision for conquering any mass markets in Europe and Asia.
So again about 4 years later the Model Y was presented. At least without falcon doors, but bigger and still too big for foreign markets.
Well finaly a smaller Tesla will be designed, but why having waited for so many years. I guess a compact Tesla might presented in (end of 2021)? And stated to be build in 2023 or 2024?

It's as simple as the fact that Tesla needed the higher margins of these larger high-end cars in order to survive their entry into the market. Now that they have the cash flow to afford building smaller, lower margin, cars they don't have the battery capacity to do so. But the resolution to that problem should be revealed on battery day and I suspect that someday in the not too distant future we will see "Model 2's" rolling out of Berlin and Shanghai.

 

[wtlloyd]

I have driven in Ireland on those tiny roads with the rock walls on each side where even all the compact cars are missing their side mirrors. I can see the importance of a compact car. While Tesla will probable make one some day it is not critical. Tesla does not HAVE to sell ALL the cars. Let the other car makers get some crumbs. Once the other car makers feel they have a foot hold with their no range compact cars Tesla can come in and crush their dreams... but lets let them get their hopes up first.

I have often said, "When the Devil is on your tail, let the Irish drive!"
You ain't kidding about those narrow road with rock walls. Worse, those walls are overgrown with green and you might be tempted to get a bit close from time to time. Big mistake.

 

[setipoo]

OMGGGGGG BEST. COMPANY. EVER!!!! I brought my MS to the Service Center just now for squeaky brakes, and the lady said she'll upgrade my FSD hardware to 3.0 for free. Who else except Elon will make your car newer today than it was 4 years ago? To show my appreciation, I'm buying an additional 48 shares as my contribution to today's ATH. You're welcome.

 

[Knightshade]

The HW3 purchase is part of the FSD purchase, because the older HW isn't capable of delivering what was promised to you when you bought FSD.

It's not them just being nice.

 

[BlackS]

The HW3 purchase is part of the FSD purchase, because the older HW isn't capable of delivering what was promised to you when you bought FSD.

It's not them just being nice.

You should have waited till 'after' the share purchase to share that info

 

[scaesare]

Good news: I just found $40K sitting in an old IRA account I had forgotten about.

Bad news: It's been there ever since the Tesla IPO at $17...

 

[Causalien]

isn't it more of a tectonic shift of MM funds from entrenched, established corporations to innovative companies, with C-19 as the accelerant?

Ya. And the unwind will happen when a new trend gets established.

Anyway, it's not a popular opinion right now. So we can stop discussing it.

 

[dww12]

@Tim S

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[mikevbf]

Wh

Good news: I just found $40K sitting in an old IRA account I had forgotten about.

Bad news: It's been there ever since the Tesla IPO at $17...

Anyone here buy any TSLA in the teens? 20's are my cheapest shares.

 

[Right_Said_Fred]

Good news: I just found $40K sitting in an old IRA account I had forgotten about.

Bad news: It's been there ever since the Tesla IPO at $17...

I guess you already made the dreaded calculation...

$40,000 / 17 = 2353 shares x $2270 = $5,341,310

 

[scaesare]

I guess you already made the dreaded calculation...

$40,000 / 17 = 2353 shares x $2270 = $5,341,310

Yes. Yes I have.

 

[lafrisbee]

For trading extended-hours with Etrade, you have to first select limit order price type, then choose extended hours in the duration menu.

Edit: Note that message indicates your limit order will probably become active when the market opens. If you're still trying to squeeze something in pre-market, make sure you don't enter the same order twice!

Thank you...that is what I did.
(I wonder if I have learned my lesson....HODL. Not because I made bad transaction choices, just because I still don't know how trading companies work and I don't want to every miss out on another 10% rise.)

 

[ninpb]

OMGGGGGG BEST. COMPANY. EVER!!!! I brought my MS to the Service Center just now for squeaky brakes, and the lady said she'll upgrade my FSD hardware to 3.0 for free. Who else except Elon will make your car newer today than it was 4 years ago? To show my appreciation, I'm buying an additional 48 shares as my contribution to today's ATH. You're welcome.

It should also have been 1000 pairs of short shorts right then and there. Would love to see the lady's reaction to that. Either smiles or disgust.

 

[bigsmooth125]

OT:

Is there a way for me to flag or bookmark a post so that I can return to it in the future?

 

[BlackS]

OT:

Is there a way for me to flag or bookmark a post so that I can return to it in the future?

Umm...just create a bookmark on your browser?