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

[Drax7]

For those expecting a self off in the first week of the year,
Anyone consider buying puts to hedge against long stock?

 

[wipster]

I've seen stranger things happen! Good luck!

I've seen the first season, but I've yet to see 2 or 3...

But good luck!

 

[elasalle]

CNBC - earlier in this hour:

What happened to the regular analysts in the clean cut suits

 

[pz1975]

What happened to the regular analysts in the clean cut suits

They're brushing their teeth on the toilet.

 

[Cherry Wine]

For those expecting a self off in the first week of the year,
Anyone consider buying puts to hedge against long stock?

Yes.

 

[pyromatter]

 

[carterm2]

Risk vs Sanity.

I am having trouble with risk aversion.

For example, I no longer have an ice, and have had to teach my 15 year old daughter how to drive with my wife's MX. It stresses out my wife, but after the big fall in Jan last year, I just don't react to stress the same way.

BTW, very much unimpressed with the latest update (missing chess), but glad to see the progress with sign detection.

I remember a number of New Years Markets with absolutely dismal beginnings due to tax sales...

 

[capster]

Why would they start deliveries - and the relevant amortisation expense - with one day left in the quarter? It just doesn't make any sense to ding the quarterly margins that way. This is especially true now that Tesla has secured a new loan in China so that production assets can be financed and not lead to a poor cash position.

They must either have a blowout quarter secured, or have some other contractual obligation that is favourable to deliver this year.

Perhaps they feel the "optics" of groundbreaking to delivery in the same calendar year outweigh the negatives? And maybe they have an angle on the reporting, e.g. employee deliveries are different somehow and affect reporting differently in China (not saying this is true, just an example possibility).

 

[JustMe]

CNBC - earlier in this hour:

I love that Michael Fertik likened Elon Musk to a combination of Thomas Edison and Willy Wonka

 

[M3Rider]

BTW, very much unimpressed with the latest update (missing chess), but glad to see the progress with sign detection.

Looks promising, detecting signs even at 45°.
Not sure though why not all signs. Yield not included. I'm one of those HW2.5 people having to rely on others.

 

[Curt Renz]

What happened to the regular analysts in the clean cut suits

Like in this video beginning at the 10:30 minute mark?

 

[M3Rider]

Why are we f e s t i v e ? Not a NY yet...

 

[StealthP3D]

Like in this video beginning at the 10:30 minute mark?

Even though you weren't a stock analyst, I bet you had people in Chicago asking you for financial advice? Did complete strangers approach you as if they knew you?

 

[dl003]

I don't expect anyone to spend 45 minutes watching this video, but it's worth every minute for me. It's truly an eye opening documentary of how Elon Musk and Tesla got here. It's gut wrenching. He got his first $120 million at age of 30. Put all of it right back into SpaceX, Tesla, and Solar City. All 3 becomes industry titans. Cynics bash Solar City now, but they don't mention it was THE leading solar company before its financial crisis. In the beginning Tesla had money to survive almost on a weekly basis. Elon Musk had to decide whether to pour the rest of his net worth into it or let it die. He had to beg the government and Daimler for capital. Now that Tesla has got here, people tend to forget or simply don't know what it has overcome. So if you think June 2019 was bad, watch this video. I don't think I'll ever sell my shares now, unless Elon gets hit by a bus.

 

[JustMe]

Like in this video beginning at the 10:30 minute mark?

That was an interesting discussion, but I liked those guys better in Office Space

 

[Curt Renz]

Even though you weren't a stock analyst, I bet you had people in Chicago asking you for financial advice? Did complete strangers approach you as if they knew you?

Yes, and they often acted surprised when I didn't behave as though I already knew them.

 

[Thekiwi]

CNBC - earlier in this hour:

has CNBC resorted to booking homeless people on their shows now?

seriously those two guests look like hobos.

 

[StealthP3D]

Looks promising, detecting signs even at 45%.
Not sure though why not all signs. Yield not included. I'm one of those HW2.5 people having to rely on others.

Wow! That's quite a bundle of upgrades!

I like the voice control of the web browser and climate control.

 

[Snapdragon III]

Obviously they are tech bros, not hobos.

 

[StealthP3D]

has CNBC resorted to booking homeless people on their shows now?

seriously those two guests look like hobos.

The producer of the show told his assistant to find two "hippy looking dreamers who know nothing about stocks or finance to pump the stock" figuring it would help prevent more people from piling onto the stock.

This tells me the Tesla detractors are planning an important attack on the share price, either at the end of the day today or in the last two trading days of the year. But it probably won't be very effective or last very long because everyone and their brother is waiting for lower prices so they can either jump on the train or cover their shorts before they end up in the poorhouse.