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Rangoth

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Elon was part of some talk today(didn't listen to it) so maybe it is that? As always when this stock comes up, I have no idea how it is moving at the rate and direction it is other than just riding the market wave at this point. There is so much hype around all of the long term things they are doing and yet all actual reports are extremely negative. Car sales down, delays in R&D, things don't work properly, etc.

He used to have the fanboy left on his side with the EV thing but ever since he associated himself with Trump they 100% abandoned him! Sort of funny how quickly they turned actually. Owning a TSLA went from being a virtue signal about global warming to meaning you are a secret nazi within 6 months. The left does have amazing narrative control.

Anyway, I go with the flow of the markets other than my side bets and while some of the technical indicators still point bear it seems we may be on our way out of it. The tariff crap was overhyped as always and all of the macro economic numbers seem ok, including today's CPI. Turns out turning off the government printing machine and letting people create and run businesses is actually good.

Barring any wars, COVID 2.0, or other plot to take down Trump this summer may run quite hard! waiting for a few more indicators, but this is a market wide run, it's strong in many sectors and beyond the S&P 500. I ended up skipping my SPY trades today because it was in a trough when I had time to monitor it, but I did make some money selling puts on SG and SMMT, caught about 15% on both, though super small trades, around 5k.
 

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Technically the new Model 3 Highland and Model Y Juniper updates are solid, solid updates to their core products. You currently couldn't buy positive press for Tesla for any cost, but the products are solid.

I'd interpret this as the market believes this anti-Elon sentiment will blow over and people will go back to buying Teslas. This last year or two has given all of the other EV manufacturers a huge window to step in, and they haven't. Tesla still owns ~50% of the EV market in the US in 2025, with all of the other EV manufacturers taking the other 50% and none of them are above 5-6% market share.

Or, it just doesn't make sense and people are buying for no real reason. Either is entirely possible.
 
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Edaw

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He said some stuff today and a robot danced the YMCA. Probably has more to do with that.

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I'm not watching all this. You can if you want.

 
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Rangoth

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I think that will fade. The fed is playing politics with Trump big time. They absolutely hate him. The more core data points that come out the more they will have their hand forced
 
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