As I’ve written countless times before, Tesla is in or approaching an extreme inflection point again. If the company is able to flip the switch on truly driverless “Full Self Driving” that lets people text, watch movies, work, or sleep while the car drives itself (and Tesla takes on the … [continued]
Bill Gates’ $500 million Tesla short position is a bit awkward in terms of his own pledges to help with climate change. Tesla is a trillion-dollar company with a focus on accelerating the transition to sustainability. It’s also the only company that has had massive success beating the odds stacked … [continued]
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into short selling by hedge funds and research funds, Reuters reports. This is a good thing for all investors, especially for those of us who invest in companies that we feel will make a positive impact on our lives and … [continued]
For those in the investment world, the term “bear” represents those who expect a stock’s value to go down, or as it often plays out, those who are against a particular stock and company. Taking bearish sentiment a step further, short sellers are bears who bet on a stock’s value … [continued]
Quartz published an article recently with a headline stating that Tesla is the world’s most shorted stock — even more than GameStop, which got that well-talked-about boost from the Reddit forum Wall Street Bets in the face of bets against the video game store. The article highlighted how the Reddit … [continued]
When I started writing for CleanTechnica, a big part of my goal was to examine the articles that seemed to spread FUD — fear, uncertainty, and doubt — about Tesla to determine when there was something to the underlying message and when I felt the data was being misinterpreted.
I was trying to write the third part in my “Tesla [TSLA] Retail Investors Have an Advantage — Here’s Why” series, and I kept getting distracted by reading about the various short squeezes currently being carried out on Wall Street, headlined by Gamestop. On that topic, I am amazed by the parallels that the WallStreetBets subreddit has to a lot of my own research over the past few years.
It’s a mid-late Sunday morning and as my cats race around my home like its Nurburgring, I open Twitter to see a tweet by Earl of Frunkpuppy that inspires this piece. In his tweet, below, Earl shared an image of four Tesla-related headlines over the years.
Last year will go down as a disastrous one for Tesla (TSLA) short sellers, people who bet against Tesla’s success and progress. On the final day of 2020, Tesla’s stock soared over the $700 mark for the first time.
Earlier this month, I shared my thoughts about a CNN article that stated that Tesla (TSLA) short sellers lost more than the entire US airline industry in 2020. In that piece, I also shared some thoughts from Jim Chanos, one of Tesla’s most notorious and outspoken short sellers, who happens to still believe that Tesla will fail.
