I wonder how quickly i cold get hired at Tesla? I'd sweep floors, clean toilets, whatever, then let Elon rage fire me as he often does
Much shorting occurs via non-FINRA monitored institutions. Yes MMs have special exemptions which allow them to sell naked shorts. The SEC needs to get a grip on this obvious, blantant, and widespread abuse of trust. MMs are effectively issuing shares of TSLA thereby seriously diluting the SP, all without an actual Investor who owned shares. I agreed. A long time ago. On a message board far, far away (BTW, only got 1 'like' when I posted my preference for Larry Elison on Nov 7, 2018. You're welcome). Lock down his shares, wot? And he could easily put a hard floor on the SP with a standing 'Buy' order which creeps up incrementally with each Financials report. Yes, Open Interest is the interesting parameter. Look for movement toward the $360 Strike price, while keeping an eye on the $400 Calls. Cheers!
Weekend OT Indeed, I'm one of these station wagon guys. A few things come to mind. Firstly, my current Audi station wagon is surprisingly "not spacious" i.e. there were a few situations where I thought I could pack something but I simply couldn't fit the item since the interior is not as wide / high as you would think. I estimate the old Volvos to have about twice the storage space... Secondly, if all you need is space and don't care too much about how it is shaped, then the Model 3 is a no-brainer: it has ample of places to store stuff. However, if you want to load e.g. a fridge you might be out of luck with the Model 3 where both Model S and a station wagon would be fine (European size fridge, not US size fridge my friends ;-) ). What would really make my day would be a towing hitch: not that I want to haul a caravan across the continent but If there was a way to attach my road bike without the need to fiddle with a roof rack or get a small trailer to carry some lumber (or said fridge) a few kilometers back home from the store - that would REALLY go a long way to alleviate the issues for me as a station wagon guy.
The important information this naming includes is the resistance from Porsche Management and Engineering teams in their mindset to move fully EV. It may sound like a small tidbit of information and people make jokes about it but it does tell us that they still live in the old world of ICEs. I believe this will remain for a longer period of time and its actually quite normal given that their legacy is the combustion engine. Their main mission is right now to transition the Porsche DNA from ICE to BEV and their biggest fear is that what they called the biggest asset from Porsche which is a particular driving emotion will disappear, dilute or get comparable. Time will tell but my gut feel is that the difference between driving a Porsche versus other sports cars in the old disappearing world of ICEs will be reduced if not vanish in the new world of BEVs. If that's the case than its a threat to the business model of Porsche.
Yeah, Karen is right. The major action for Jan 18, 2019 is at the $360 Strike price: Option Graphs Tesla Inc (TSLA) as of 12/29/2018 7:13:12 AM Expiration 1/18/2019 Highest Put Strike: 360.0 Highest Put Volume: 1648 Highest Call Strike: 360.0 Highest Call Volume: 2341 The most 'striking' aspect of the current distribution of Options Contracts is that both the Highest Put Strike and the Highest Call Strike price both occur at $360. This will be a powerful attractor for the SP as trading continues toward Jan 18, 2019. A second notable feature of this chart is that there is a 2nd significant spike in CALL Options only (not PUTS) at the $400 Strike Price. Currently there are about 1,850 open Contracts at that price for the 1/18/2019 expiry, representing an addtional 185,000 shares for a minimum share value of $74 Million if fully executed. That's just over 0.1% of TSLA total market cap as a 'side-bet' lotto-ticket type play. So it's gonna be facinating to watch TSLA MA in early Jan as both MMs and Investors jockey for positions on the big day. Popcorn (and dry powder) ready. Cheers!
On the Larry Ellison appointment, lots of media noise highlighting him being a “close friend of Elon” and hence not being truly independent due to conflict of interest. Perhaps the “Independent Media” would like to first read the Nasdaq rules around Independent Directors: http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/87/87823/corpgov/nasdaq_marketplace_rule_4200.pdf
I think the best way to look at the 2019 Jan 18 $TSLA options open interest is the raw open interest data rounded to $10 strike prices: Code: PUT $010: 37,203 ################## , CALL $010: 2 PUT $020: 27,284 ############# , CALL $020: 118 PUT $030: 14,606 ####### , CALL $030: 1,847 # PUT $040: 8,452 #### , CALL $040: 284 PUT $050: 87,069 ###################+, CALL $050: 18 PUT $060: 9,252 #### , CALL $060: 3 PUT $070: 12,702 ###### , CALL $070: 6 PUT $080: 17,270 ######## , CALL $080: 300 PUT $090: 9,171 #### , CALL $090: 543 PUT $100: 57,833 ###################+, CALL $100: 3,271 # PUT $110: 5,231 ## , CALL $110: 491 PUT $120: 15,888 ######## , CALL $120: 121 PUT $130: 5,029 ## , CALL $130: 400 PUT $140: 5,244 ## , CALL $140: 44 PUT $150: 26,799 ############# , CALL $150: 897 PUT $160: 3,127 # , CALL $160: 256 PUT $170: 5,746 ### , CALL $170: 635 PUT $180: 8,024 #### , CALL $180: 574 PUT $190: 3,122 # , CALL $190: 2,351 # PUT $200: 30,948 ############### , CALL $200: 2,657 # PUT $210: 7,519 #### , CALL $210: 1,249 PUT $220: 8,181 #### , CALL $220: 877 PUT $230: 16,554 ######## , CALL $230: 1,735 # PUT $240: 14,209 ####### , CALL $240: 1,529 # PUT $250: 15,131 ####### , CALL $250: 2,265 # PUT $260: 6,313 ### , CALL $260: 1,899 # PUT $270: 11,458 ##### , CALL $270: 1,652 # PUT $280: 18,068 ######### , CALL $280: 1,912 # PUT $290: 4,808 ## , CALL $290: 3,444 # PUT $300: 16,045 ######## , CALL $300: 10,181 ##### PUT $310: 5,335 ## , CALL $310: 4,916 ## PUT $320: 6,036 ### , CALL $320: 4,775 ## PUT $330: 9,870 ##### , CALL $330: 8,526 #### PUT $340: 18,795 ######### , CALL $340: 6,146 ### PUT $350: 12,492 ###### , CALL $350: 15,927 ######## PUT $360: 4,661 ## , CALL $360: 11,061 ##### PUT $370: 3,488 # , CALL $370: 6,285 ### PUT $380: 2,469 # , CALL $380: 7,824 #### PUT $390: 1,371 , CALL $390: 5,018 ## PUT $400: 3,195 # , CALL $400: 25,779 ############# PUT $410: 900 , CALL $410: 4,922 ## PUT $420: 1,049 , CALL $420: 8,423 #### PUT $430: 411 , CALL $430: 3,960 ## PUT $440: 648 , CALL $440: 5,059 ## PUT $450: 231 , CALL $450: 5,060 ## PUT $460: 0 , CALL $460: 1,956 # PUT $470: 5 , CALL $470: 1,914 # PUT $480: 27 , CALL $480: 2,386 # PUT $490: 5 , CALL $490: 1,363 PUT $500: 2,005 # , CALL $500: 12,172 ###### PUT $510: 8 , CALL $510: 552 PUT $520: 0 , CALL $520: 984 PUT $530: 1 , CALL $530: 592 PUT $540: 8 , CALL $540: 472 PUT $550: 214 , CALL $550: 3,323 # PUT $560: 0 , CALL $560: 1,136 PUT $570: 0 , CALL $570: 323 PUT $580: 50 , CALL $580: 1,922 # PUT $590: 7 , CALL $590: 831 PUT $600: 338 , CALL $600: 24,542 ############ PUT $610: 0 , CALL $610: 3,602 ## PUT $620: 0 , CALL $620: 1,400 PUT $630: 0 , CALL $630: 440 PUT $640: 0 , CALL $640: 474 PUT $650: 5 , CALL $650: 3,075 # PUT $660: 22 , CALL $660: 552 PUT $670: 0 , CALL $670: 834 PUT $680: 2 , CALL $680: 14,886 ####### PUT $690: 0 , CALL $690: 640 Open interest per expiry date: Code: 2018/Dec/28: PUTs: 38,475 ; CALLs: 26,188 2019/Jan/04: PUTs: 26,247 ; CALLs: 26,769 2019/Jan/11: PUTs: 9,727 ; CALLs: 10,064 2019/Jan/18: PUTs: 585,724 ; CALLs: 251,881 2019/Jan/25: PUTs: 3,636 ; CALLs: 4,732 2019/Feb/01: PUTs: 1,414 ; CALLs: 3,054 2019/Feb/08: PUTs: 198 ; CALLs: 619 2019/Feb/15: PUTs: 43,792 ; CALLs: 43,953 2019/Mar/15: PUTs: 147,959 ; CALLs: 49,501 2019/Jun/21: PUTs: 93,995 ; CALLs: 47,653 2019/Aug/16: PUTs: 34,375 ; CALLs: 15,979 2020/Jan/17: PUTs: 213,052 ; CALLs: 81,100 2020/Jun/19: PUTs: 5,298 ; CALLs: 2,276 total: PUTs: 1,212,824 ; CALLs: 572,537 The following features are obvious from the distribution: The 2019 January 18 expiry week is absolutely fricking huge: it was the LEAP expiry date for two years and has accumulated a lot of 'bankwuptcy bets' - over 830,000 options contracts, which is 83 million $TSLA share-equivalent derivatives positions ... Unlike this week's or the Jan 4 or Jan 11 expiries, market makers will be keenly watching the January 18 expiry. I'd expect peak FUD in that week as well, from short seller aligned media interests. The delivery report will be downplayed, Tesla will be portrayed to be in a growth crisis from dropping demand if they 'only' grow deliveries by say 10% quarter-to-quarter - you name it. The WSJ, the NYT the Financial Times - every major outlet will chime in, and I expect them to agitate furiously on the side of the short sellers. 97% of PUT options expire worthless at $350 and above closing prices 75% of CALL options expire worthless below $350 The PUT/CALL ratio is still 2.3, which is very high compared to the <1.0 ratios of recent expiries. 18th of January is the last big bet of short sellers to earn a lot of money through options on $TSLA. I.e. for market makers and large counter-parties it will be far more important for the price to stay above $350 than for it to stay below it. For large shorts with price setting trading power still left the key level is $340, every dollar drop below that will earn them ~20 million more dollars than prices above $340. In terms of price consensus: On the PUT side there's no clear consensus - it's all over the place from $100 to $350. On the CALL side the price consensus is in the $350-$400 range. If we disregard the $400 spike (the short-squeeze bets) then the price consensus is centered around $350. This does suggest that absent large volatility after the delivery report, the max pain point would be at around $350.
Mine too. Lots of people in Sweden wont buy a Model 3 without a towing hook. There have been early hints from Elon that it's coming but I haven't heard anything lately and the option isn't available when ordering. Ps. A road bike shouldn't be left out in the dirt and rain. Keep it inside the car where it's dry and warm.
Frequent battery replacement? Seriously, In the context of charging power, Porsche's constant mentioning of their 700 V voltage has relevance only for the thickness of the charging cable. The fundamental issue is that for the given battery size, tripling the charging power (relative to Tesla's current Supercharger), triples the C-rate which is detrimental to the long-term health of each cell. So maybe Porsche is betting that owners of the Taycan will not mind the more frequent replacements (or upgrades) of the battery pack...
“Turbo” is no longer the gimmicky marketing term of the 80s used for non-turbine things. Sir Mixalot legitimized the term in 1992 by rapping the line “got it goin like a turbo Vette.” Since then turbo has been used on only the most premium products. I don’t know how Tesla will be able to compete.
Also, many of them will home charge 99% of the time. So Porsche might be using 350kW charging as a marketing gimmick.
Strong disagree. As long as republicans are right-wing party friendly to business, they will be inherently hostile to - among other things - anything involving protection and care for environment, since these are unfriendly for business (incurring costs that could be avoidable, just dump that *sugar* into soil, air and water - all hail negative externalities!). They will resist and oppose anything in this direction as much as possible. Yeah, and communism is cool moneyless utopia.