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A one-time event? How on earth did you come to that conclusion?

Earnings growth in 2021 was from just one factory ramping production and constant reduction in COGS and operating efficiencies. What do you think is happening right now with Austin/Berlin. You do get that the biggest headwind from those two factories ramping is now behind Tesla right? Do you understand what's about to happen with with operating margins and net income now that they're past the inefficient/costly part of ramping volume?

Going from negative to positive is by definition a one time event.
 
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How long?
As previously noted.

128.63 next train stop for Tesla.

According to Forbes’ analysis of US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) data, Musk sold 22 million Tesla shares in a single week.

What Musk is attempting to accomplish at Tesla is still unclear. Elon Musk would leave his position as CEO of Tesla, according to a info that surfaced in recent days.
Tom Zhu Xiaotong, who is currently Tesla China’s director, will become the company’s CEO.

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Info from who? Give us a name.
 
I cancelled my Founders Roadster Reservation yesterday.... to buy more TSLA. I have a good feeling about this. :)

Also picked up the new beast today. What a day!

Ha! Financially, good idea. I'm holding onto my Founder's reservation but will also buy some chairs tomorrow. Has anyone heard a peep or a rumor about the Roadster in, oh, I don't know, the last 12 months or so??
 
The big question for me is, what is the effect on the overall investment thesis from recent events? Aside from macro conditions:

For every market, there is a pool of buyers (TAM). That pool has been reduced. We don't know how much.

The brand value has been diminished. We don't know how much.

But both changes are objectively >0.

In a long ocean voyage, if you miscalculate your route by 1%, you could be 500 miles off from your destination at the end. Similarly, a small deflection in a growth curve can have a large result. I do think the growth curve has changed, which will have a multiplicative effect on where TSLA will end up. We can only do our best to estimate all these factors. I still like TSLA in the long term, but I'm no longer betting the farm.
 
How long to get your deposit back?
3 days they say
Ha! Financially, good idea. I'm holding onto my Founder's reservation but will also buy some chairs tomorrow. Has anyone heard a peep or a rumor about the Roadster in, oh, I don't know, the last 12 months or so??
How come do you still have free cash in this kind of environment?!? What are you, 90 or something? :)
 
When the price was drawn to 137 today like a magnet I was reminded of this video from a month ago. It mentions/shows the 137 gap. See from 18:30 mark.

Next few days will be educational regarding gap theory. If 137 forms the bottom I’ll be forever on the lookout for gaps.

I think a 2 year old gap is irrelevant. If we get to 137 and bounce, I'll chop it up to a confluence of other indicators. 136 is just one among many other support levels that could have held but didn't.
 
"I don’t want an unhinged, Qanon, highly political freak show as CEO of a company I’m invested in."

I pride myself on being willing to hear all reasonable counterpoints to the echo chamber of how amazing Tesla is. But with this message @Webeevdrivers, you've finally broken me down and earned my rare exercise of the ignore feature. Good luck.
👍👍
 
Yes I am now $5m underwater

I am trying to work out what I am missing, and I cannot come up with a good answer. The only scenario really is if everyone thinks that there is no longer a growing market for Teslas, and there is really no good evidence for that.

At $133, we will have dropped two thirds, And $400bn market cap at roughly $20bn annualized profit for Q4 = P/E of 20. Which is unheard of for a company with no debt and growing even moderately, never mind at 50%+ each year.

I am at 81,000 shares. I am making a plan now to bring this up to 100,000 within the next month if the share price doesnt recover
My read is that there are those that believe the bird made Musk vulnerable and they see an opportunity to gain his TSLA shares at a discount and mess him up with Tesla and the bird. (Mind you, I’m *not* blaming Elon—He’s fighting the good fight and the forces of darkness are fighting back)

All the money gushing in for Big Oil and their bankers offers plenty of ammo. But how much are they really willing to lose from their short positions when the tide turns?

The Street wants to flush retail out of TSLA before they buy TSLA back up to flog to Main Street via various funds.

All the amateurs in options incents the Street to both increase volatility and create plateaus in the stock price range. How much longer do they risk keeping these amateurs under water in the face of diminishing returns?

When and how does this unwind? Hard to say, but this is surreal (we’ve a PEG less than .2 now, if I’m not mistaken). One chink in the-sky-is-falling-all-the-time-and-everywhere narrative could trip the spring: There is no honor among thieves after all.

Or, it could take awhile. I’m not happy with this share price, but I’m long and I’m patient.
 
There’s also a thing called luck.

All wisdom in the history of the market says you cannot consistently time the market (unless maybe you’re a quant fund like renaissance with army of Ivy League phd a). Also goes in the face of some of the greatest investing legends in history. But hey, if you want to listen to a YouTuber with a limited track record like that (who no matter what the market does makes money off advertisement revenue for clicks) then you go for it.

Greed slaughters. You saw it in the options thread when people were doing bull put spreads during the peak and who are selling covered calls right now during multi year lows. But hey, Chicken has the crystal ball for the future and you too want to time the market 👍 go ahead.

Actually, there is quite a few people that is exceptionally good at timing the ups and downs in the market.
And who is it? It`s the idiots.
 
I just let Santa know what I want for Xmas
“ Pl don’t let Elon anywhere near the Q4 earnings call.”
Someone is going to be unhappy when the Q4 earnings call rolls around.

This coming earnings call is way too important for Musk to sit it out.
  • Musk wants to smell burnt short hairs.
  • Musk needs to demonstrate he is still at the helm at Tesla.
  • Cybertruck is just ripening and it is his baby.
  • It's the year end call, just in general he should be there for year end review.

Do you really think there is any chance he sits it out? If Tesla is doing well, Musk will want to be there to enjoy his victory dance. If they are doing poorly, it's even more important he's there to prevent a landslide.
 
I think a 2 year old gap is irrelevant. If we get to 137 and bounce, I'll chop it up to a confluence of other indicators. 136 156 is just one among many other support levels that could have held but didn't.
(FTFY?)

I'm not one for technical trading but they do seem to have this stock by the balls currently so I took a look just now at Corey as one of the most respected... the news appears good from a technical view


"on Tesla stock we were down 8.05 percent today and we finally hit the double top price Target at 138 and we have just a little bit lower to go to completely the daily Gap at 137 as you can tell from the arrow we did arrive at the price Target a day late but we have clearly arrived at the price Target which means we can now delete this Arrow because this double top price target has been satisfied.
So for that reason I think this only increases the probability that we do get that Santa Claus rally and I do think the Santa Claus reality could be very nice to Tesla buyers because I think there's a good chance we can run all the way back up to 197, we'll at a very minimum at least retest the neckline around 168.
So on Tesla stock we've had very high volume selling capitulation which is no surprise because this is a retail favorite and I think there's a lot of retailers that have now been shaken out of this stock and their Diamond hands have been proven to be paper.

So if you have been Panic selling Tesla you may regret it because these are levels that a lot of people have been waiting to buy and I do think you are going to start seeing a lot of buying pressure in this stock.
If I'm wrong we should easily slice down below 137 and start down towards 130 but I do believe there's a very good chance Tesla is about to go on a face ripping rally.
Watch The Upside resistance at 155 and neckline at 168 and if we could break above that neckline we should have a very easy shot back up towards 197."
 
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