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

dhanson865

Active Member
Feb 16, 2013
4,345
5,734
Knoxville, Tennessee
I would've been more rude at that obvious lie. In this day and age of screen locks, who in the world butt-dials anymore? A screen lock is the user's responsibility. That poser was just contriving a complaint about not having a purchase confirmation.

I've put my phone in a front shirt pocket and had the material "but dial" from the home screen into an app and 3 layers deep waiting for me to answer a confirmation after 10-30 seconds in my shirt pocket.

Do I have a screen lock on my phone? Absolutely, and I use it often, but not 100% of the time and when I don't it's not unusual for me to find an app I haven't opened in months sitting open asking me a question.

Any heavy user of a phone is going to have incidents like that from time to time even if they have a decent habit of locking the phone when not in use.
 

Right_Said_Fred

Moderator
May 11, 2012
3,743
30,249
The Netherlands
Maybe they are preparing for a major re-branding? Infidelity. All the "in" people are using it!

Seriously though, this was only a clerical change from a shareholders perspective. From the perspective of the brokers and clearing houses it was a complete accounting of all the actual shares. Because only actual shares were assigned the 4 dividend shares. It seems like people are still not understanding this. And, yes, I understand that loaned shares were split along with the shares being loaned. The problem was some shares had no "donor shares" to make them legitimate.

As most of you know, accounting is pretty simple until the numbers don't add up correctly. The fact that the delays and problems were so widespread is more evidence that there were an excessive number of synthetic shares out there and the market makers got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. But, in the end, all will be sorted out and the boldest of the bunch will have reduced their potential losses by covering the last shares this week at lower prices.

This feels like the perfect post to end the discussion about the stock split and naked shorting, now that the split is behind us. Thanks everyone for participating (speculating) and maybe one day we will know what really happened.



 

aubreymcfato

Supporting Member
Sep 16, 2016
1,082
8,337
Italy
Relax, nobody is dying on this hill. Nobody is talking about responsibility either so climb down off that soapbox. It's just common sense. Why not add an incredibly EASY and STANDARD form of security for something like this? Yeah, I can't buy a movie from Amazon or an app from Apple without password confirmation but I'm an asshole for suggesting it's easier for Tesla to add a password check than to deal with refund requests from idiots. Elon himself agreed didn't he?

Instead we have Tesla wasting time dealing with refunds and trying to sort out who did what. It's CYA.

Tesla addresses "butt-dialed" in-app purchases with new refund policy
For the record, the guy said he did summon his car, so the tesla app was already on and he was already logged in,
and then he put the phone in his pocket.
 

Krugerrand

Is Cat
Jul 13, 2012
10,684
50,739
Tesla friendly place
Thanks. I think I am amply positioned to benefit from Tesla over the next year and beyond. Where do you think the stock could be in the coming year?

I’m quite sure you are and I don’t typically talk specifics simply because I have no control over the outcome. I’ve been at the mercy and whimsy of crooks, thieves and bandits. However, that’s changing/changed.

Based on observing your postings over the years, I feel that you lean more conservatively in your predictions and how you think this all plays out. It serves you well, never getting too far ahead and certainly never caught with your pants down.

I know you believe the SP got ahead of itself; I don’t necessarily disagree. The difference is probably mostly in just how far ahead.

I also know you’re very math oriented and you like to formula it all so the numbers make sense to you.

My contention is that I believe if you continue to model in your usual more mathematically conservative manner the actual test answer (SP) is going to be vastly different.

BF targets worked until they didn’t. They worked until the crooks, thieves and bandits lost control of Tesla and then they lost control of TSLA. And while they may continue to swing their apparatus around to show just how much they rule the world, every day Tesla grows a bit bigger and a bit more powerful. I believe Tesla’s power will usurp, is usurping the big boys. I believe chaos is in its way, fast.

So, no. I don’t expect another 5 year long, torturous base to form on the TSLA chart. I don’t even expect a shorter 1 year base to form. I expect this puppy to move like an epic surfing day, with ever larger, higher, longer lasting waves as the wind that is Tesla picks up throughout the day.

Let me express it in simple pictures.

2011-2019
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2020-foreseeable future
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Nocturnal

Supporting Member
Aug 23, 2018
6,054
30,078
In the middle
For the record, the guy said he did summon his car, so the tesla app was already on and he was already logged in,
and then he put the phone in his pocket.
The Tesla app doesn't require credentials to login each time. I don't really care about his mistake. I'm a pragmatist. A simple prompt that would take 10 hours of coding time would have saved Tesla much more in headaches and hassle. People can be dumb, or make mistakes, or give their phone to their kid to watch TV.

Gordon Johnson argues like my mother-in-law. Do 95% of the talking to make sure the other person cannot make a point.
Man, GJ has terrible logic. He thinks that if Tesla doesn't increase market share of EVs only, then that means they aren't gaining share in the auto market. For a while I've believed he knew he was spouting nonsense but I'm actually leaning towards the idea that he just can't reason properly.

BMW and GM are a threat because they can afford to sell EVs at a loss BTW guys. lmao
 

Darren12

Member
Aug 3, 2013
44
192
Canada
There may still be some folks whose brokers are finally entering the Tesla dividend shares into clients' accounts. Today might be the first day for them to sell or place stop limits on the new shares. We likely saw some of this yesterday and perhaps more today.

Regarding an S&P 500 inclusion, my guess has always been after the market close on September 18th in conjunction with the quarterly rebalancing. That may make the process smoother for index funds. Usually the announcement of a rebalancing is made a week prior, but last September it was two weeks prior. This year the fact that only US markets will be closed on Monday for Labor Day, would seem to make an announcement tomorrow impractical. Otherwise the European exchanges could experience chaos on Monday. Tuesday may be more likely for an announcement, or perhaps as late as Friday September 11th to allow for a weekend in which index funds can plan their reallocation strategies.

If they did announce it tomorrow, could they also ask the European exchanges to halt trading on Monday while the US markets are closed so that all trading can resume at the same time on Tuesday? I don’t know if there is any precedence for this, but seems like an option to avoid some volatility with the market holiday and smooth it out, and it would still line up with the proforma announcement date on the S&P calendar.
 
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StarFoxisDown!

Active Member
Jan 23, 2019
2,182
15,527
Seattle
Gordon Johnson argues like my mother-in-law. Do 95% of the talking to make sure the other person cannot make a point.

I honestly do not think the interview is/was a good idea. I haven't watched one second of it so far. Gordon isn't clueless. He's a shill being paid to spread FUD for those that want tesla not succeed. He's going to do everything he can to dominate the conversation, ignore when its called out that he's wrong, and use this as an opportunity to stay in the spotlight.

This whole interview is pointless. I get the intention from Rob but be real about the person and their intentions that you're interviewing
 

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