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Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable
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ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
StealthP3D
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What's the difference between not being able to make millions of EV's and losing money on every one?
They are one and the same, because no car company can afford to make cars in high volume when everyone causes a substantial loss. Even Tesla was making cars in very low numbers when they were not at or very close to break-even.
Furthermore, if you ramp a car to high volume that there is not huge demand for simply because you think you might be close to breakeven, not only do you steal sales from your profitable vehicles, you run a high risk of having to heavily discount them to move them. The manufacture of cars is not like a spigot where you can just turn it off when demand is met, you have to plan on the volume you will make many months in advance.
That's just one more huge advantage Tesla has with their pricing power. If they ramp volumes too high for market conditions, they can discount them quite heavily and still remain quite profitable while selling every car they make. It really de-risks the business going forward to have such high margins.
Not sure why this latest downturn has me feeling so grumpy.
I have been invested in Tesla since 2017 and seen some ups and downs.
I know Tesla will be fine...but this one has me feeling.....
I have been invested in Tesla since 2017 and seen some ups and downs.
I know Tesla will be fine...but this one has me feeling.....
Has anyone got any clue what is going on? We went from $300 to $200 in a matter of three months. Is it all because of Twitter? If so, are we going to $100 from here, as the whole Twitter saga is not over.
A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I had to sell because of some big item purchases I made. That was when stock was trading in the $250 range. I kept hanging on as to “how low can it go?”. I now have to sell some this week, some at the end of the month and the rest end of December. If it really goes much lower than I will have to cash out my whole portfolio?! How low will it go??
This is one big lesson learned. If you use stock to purchase something - even if you need to pay like nine months later - cash it right away and leave it on a savings account. I never expected this to happen…
A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I had to sell because of some big item purchases I made. That was when stock was trading in the $250 range. I kept hanging on as to “how low can it go?”. I now have to sell some this week, some at the end of the month and the rest end of December. If it really goes much lower than I will have to cash out my whole portfolio?! How low will it go??
This is one big lesson learned. If you use stock to purchase something - even if you need to pay like nine months later - cash it right away and leave it on a savings account. I never expected this to happen…
I thought this open letter from Boomer Mama was worth sharing. I agree with the sentiment. Feels like nothing helps the SP right now; but I think investors would generally welcome a PR type department.
Edited for vulgar autocorrect spelling mistake.
Edited for vulgar autocorrect spelling mistake.
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ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
Probably following beta as Tsla lost all its over performance and now we are sitting at performance
Tesla's beta to the qqq is about 1.5. QQQ is down 34.4% from peak, X 1.5= 51.6% and we are sitting at 51.6% down
Drumheller
Active Member
Yes
Elon doesn't owe us anything. I complain some because I disagree with some of what he says but that doesn't mean I have any right to tell him how to spend his money or his time.
I care more about the mission than I do the stock price, and I'm NOT retired like many here. I would like to become wealthy from the stock, but greed should be kept in check. The mission is more important.
Phobi
Member
Lightning strikes twice it seems
Seriously though, just HODL (and accumulate if possible
)Lightning strikes twice it seems
Seriously though, just HODL (and accumulate if possible
He really needs to stop following my recommendations
Big-Hearted Merciful Moderator is not torching the blatant political posts that have burdened this thread today. But the Endit command isn't going to show up - just a pure-deletion-no-reason-given henceforth.
huh that's interesting. Stock market is going to feel what when they see that?
This is probably a better sense of what is going on. It's the insurance subsidy discount.
How does taking Tesla engineers away from their important work and having review code at Twitter further the mission?
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