Bill Gates’ $500 Million Tesla Short Is Awkward & Hypocritical
Bill Gates’ $500 million Tesla short position is a bit awkward in terms of his own pledges to help with … [continued]
Bill Gates’ $500 million Tesla short position is a bit awkward in terms of his own pledges to help with … [continued]
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into short selling by hedge funds and research funds, Reuters … [continued]
For those in the investment world, the term “bear” represents those who expect a stock’s value to go down, or … [continued]
Quartz published an article recently with a headline stating that Tesla is the world’s most shorted stock — even more … [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.
Gail from the Tesla Owners Club of Austin shared her story of the behind the scenes of a photo that Elon Musk recently liked on Twitter. The photo was taken of Gail’s Tesla Short Shorts and two glasses of Champagne on top of her Tesla Model 3 while Giga Texas chased the sun with its cranes in the background.