shorting Tesla

[moneymaker]

Never shorted a stock before, but if the 1 year expectation is 40 points lower for Tesla, wouldn’t a short be a good idea?

[spdrun]

Depends how irrational the markets are willing to get 🙂

[henrysd]

I am buy and hold guy, never have guts and possibly the skills to successfully short any stock. Telsa is one of bubble stock now, but even if you are right, other people, especially those wall streets traders have to follow you with the same bet for you to make money. Little fish can’t fight the big guys. In 2005-2006 time many piggs here already knew about housing market cracks, but how many actually made housing related shorting profits when wall street still liked mortgage lenders? The real shorting opportunity happened in spring 2007 with public traded sub-prime mortgage lenders.

[moneymaker]

I just figure with the recent rocket problems, car production not meeting earlier estimates and the Powerwall not really being economically feasible yet that Tesla might be ready for a correction.

[millennial]

Even if you are right. The market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent.

[Escoguy]

I shorted amazon back in 2000 successfully but thank God I closed the position after a profit.

Long story short, there are better forums to read about shorting Tesla but while it may look appealing, they have no problems raising funds.

Once they solve the short term production problems, it could well be off to the races.

Apple could also be a buyer for them and only use a small portion of their cash.

[Hobie]

Tesla and Apple would be a good fit. But I can’t see Musk selling. New battery tech will benefit both companies immensely.

[FlyerInHi]

Oh no! Tesla closing their stores.
I want to see them successful. Hope they can get the model 3 onto mass market and economies of scale.

[moneymaker]

Honestly I don’t even remember making the original post, but looking back looks like Tesla could have been successfully shorted 3 times in last year. Wife got her $1000 deposit back, within a week I think. Would still buy one if the numbers worked but they just don’t seem to at the moment. Here’s what it would take
1) Solar system making way more electricity than we use
2) Ability to use batteries in car as backup for the house
3) Free parking for the wife at work
4) Free charging
5) A 0% interest loan
6) A 10 year/100K mile warranty
On a related note looks like SDG&E randomly pre selected me to be switched to a TOU plan that would have costed me almost $200 more per year based on last years usage. I called them and opted out.

[Hatfield]

Too scared to short and put options don’t look all that attractively priced, so I’ll sit this one out.

[Coronita]

Funny this thread came up because now that they are taking orders for the base model at $35k, I might order one and add a 7th car to my garage.

6250 EV tax credits puts this below $30k before tax license etc… Hyundai sonatas are ringing up near that these days.My 2017 Miata was around that price after s plan racer discount pricing .

I am thankful a lot of people bought into the initial hype and spent close to $50k+ for this car so Tesla can continue to build these base models for those of us that don’t want to pay $50k for a car that imho looks very similar to a Mazda 3. Now that the initial teething of a first year production run has settled, it’s looking to be compelling for me.

But man, those base model wheels sure are fugly.

[moneymaker]

Now in less than 2 weeks there will be an alternative, model Y, an SUV, not sure what the wheels look like. It will cost 10% more and have less range with the same battery, just saying, I’m sure it will be slower too though.

[outtamojo]

A lot of people take off the plastic covers on those aero wheels.

[outtamojo]

[quote=moneymaker]Now in less than 2 weeks there will be an alternative, model Y, an SUV, not sure what the wheels look like. It will cost 10% more and have less range with the same battery, just saying, I’m sure it will be slower too though.[/quote]

I cant wait till the porsche ev’s come out.

[flyer]

Will be interested to see if Musk moves forward with a private jet that competes with the Cirrus or Honda (vs. the electric airplane that takes off vertically, which he’s mentioned)–both of which represent the smallest private jets made–and both of which are back ordered.

Looks like the demand is there at those price points, for commercial and private use, since both are far more reasonable than most any small Cessna Citation Jet, which has long been the benchmark in that category.

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