TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable

[humbaba]

I hope we are past the psychological problem displayed here over the last week. Even here on a board of mega-longs, I see people cheering for a lower low so they can actually pull the trigger and buy. The shorts have successfully created this mentality. If the stock is at a price that will be super profitable in X months or years we should just throw some more money at it. Waiting is what the shorts want US to do.

Not all of us have unlimited funds. I know that I don't. It is risky, and very much against any reasonable financial advice, to go "all in" on a single investment. The situation I'm in is that most of my investment is already in $TSLA so it needs to be a really good buying opportunity in order to be worth the risk of having no diversification.

Besides which, I take it you've never heard of buy low and sell high? I mean, seriously, my money on $TSLA isn't a charity...

[edited to add: you also seem to be under the mistaken impression that small (or smaller!) retail investors have an impact on the stock price. Unless you are moving tens or hundreds of thousands of shares... yeah, not so much.]

 

[Boomer19]

I would change broker btw. or send a complain. Even better to do both.
It is very "inattentive" to transfer such offers to the customers without proper disclaimers or stickers.

i wonder what broker that poster is at. my broker doesn’t solicit for offers like that.

 

[uselesslogin]

Well, the inventory at IB of shares available for shorting went from 2.4 million last time I checked to 850,000 now. Possibly there are some new shorts since the stock is going back up or possibly this means next to nothing.

 

[N5329K]

Well, considering that FORD is dropping all their small cars, which get the best gas mileage, and now 95% of what their factories pump out will skew their average mpg a lot higher, won't they need more ZEV credits to get them back to the mandated CARB/CAFE average mpg?

Not if those standards are relaxed, as is the current "thinking" in Washington. Let's hope California prevails in this case.
Robin

 

[ev-enthusiast]

Atherton Research estimates that Tesla outsold Mercedes-Benz in the US last quarter (69,925 vs. 66,542 vehicles).

 

[ThereAre4Cars]

This is wonderful news. Any predictions on when we'll be reading this heading 'Tesla Model 3 Is #1 Top Selling Car In USA'?

Never. September is pretty close to max sales pace for US at ~50% of the maximum production rate. The rest of the planet should absorb the rest.

 

[Mkorpal]

+5.7%, market finally realizing that Q3 earnings have been massively underestimated?!

Probably some corrections after a massive oversell. I suspect we'll return to the 300 area assuming nothing more on the SEC front pops up.

 

[humbaba]

Well, the inventory at IB of shares available for shorting went from 2.4 million last time I checked to 850,000 now. Possibly there are some new shorts since the stock is going back up or possibly this means next to nothing.

my guess is that it means nothing. The problem is using a proxy like that is weak evidence. Still, I'd be happy if we had short selling at this price. More pain for the shorts later

 

[Words of HABIT]

This is wonderful news. Any predictions on when we'll be reading this heading 'Tesla Model 3 Is #1 Top Selling Car In USA'?

I'm looking forward to when Tesla M3 will be Top Selling Vehicle in USA (including trucks, SUVs), and then Top Selling Vehicle Worldwide. It's just a matter of time.

 

[ThereAre4Cars]

I wonder just how much that Gasporino tweet (or the bankers behind it) was responsible for that drop. Such an absurdity talking about DIP financing.

 

[bdy0627]

Probably some corrections after a massive oversell. I suspect we'll return to the 300 area assuming nothing more on the SEC front pops up.

This is my expectation as well. If the stock does climb, I think the shorts might actually want a pretty big climb going into earnings so they can sell it hard. If we are below $310, and certainly below $300, going into earnings, I think the stock is pretty likely to gap up on volume if the earnings are what I expect.

 

[dqd88]

Getting ready for the dip. Let's see how low they can go! C'mon, I need to lower my average price per share, gimme some short love!

Now we're all gonna regret not buying at 250. May never see that # again. I hope we don't!

 

[dqd88]

I wonder just how much that Gasporino tweet (or the bankers behind it) was responsible for that drop. Such an absurdity talking about DIP financing.

Yeah that FUD got some big momentum over the weekend. That guy is a POS. Why doesn't Murdoch fire him?!

 

[Nocturnal]

I hope we are past the psychological problem displayed here over the last week. Even here on a board of mega-longs, I see people cheering for a lower low so they can actually pull the trigger and buy. The shorts have successfully created this mentality. If the stock is at a price that will be super profitable in X months or years we should just throw some more money at it. Waiting is what the shorts want US to do.

Agreed. If you think the stock has a target of 400, buying at 260 vs 250 isn't a big difference in terms of profit.

 

[emir-t]

Ah man, we started going south from 263$. I thought we were pushing 270s today.

 

[dmckinstry]

I thought it was because it rhymed with “turd”...

And @Teslie is toxic - only posts when SP is in free-fall, on my ignore-list now...

Let me give a reminder. Don't feed the trolls. Once I recognize that someone is a troll I no longer reply to them. We can usually recognize them by the combination of being a fairly new member coupled with their extreme negativity. Of course some new members are negative because of ignorance of Tesla and TSLA history.

 

[ev-enthusiast]

Touching of $260 as support could actually be a nice thing.

 

[Mkorpal]

Ah man, we started going south from 263$. I thought we were pushing 270s today.

Overall market is reversing. Possibly because if the daily political WTF.

 

[defc0n]

Not perfect but I’ll take it. Let’s see how things go from now until earnings.

 

[emissionless03]

Never going to be perfect but not a bad entry price!