To deepen that clarification, five years ago - and beginning long earlier than that - I actively hindered all discussion about derivative trading in this thread, and most short-term activity, shunting such posts off to threads devoted strictly to those two topics.The discussion was deeper 5 years ago because there were legitimate questions then about whether TSLA was a good long term investment. Plus it makes sense that the smartest people were in TSLA the earliest.
Until about 2017, @Mike Smith's words are correct: This thread was focused on assessing how best to understand Tesla-the-company, on its leader, on its entry into and its irreversible changing of the automotive and energy industries.
That work, while not now nor ever to be completed, is more firmly cast and thus there is of natural course more discussion of short-term activity. And very, very, very shortly one of the pillars upon which my 2013 investment into this company was established - its entry into the most influential market index of them all - will occur.
It has been a long, long, fruitful yet fraught, frustrating yet fascinating, compelling yet confounding, seven years. And - believe you should - a most enjoyable task for me to lead this discussion over the many hundreds of thousands of posts and multiple millions of views.