Sheesh, I just looked at the charts and it doesn’t seem to show signs of even slowing down. 7.something % is a pretty good clunk downward, but I think I’d just let it ride.
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
Sheesh, I just looked at the charts and it doesn’t seem to show signs of even slowing down. 7.something % is a pretty good clunk downward, but I think I’d just let it ride.
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Sky, the chart you are looking at is just showing you the price during regular market hours. It was down almost 8 bucks at the close. The after-hours trading is what I’m talking about. Its up $17.67 on the news. New all time high (which is a regular occurrence for this stock).
[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
Sheesh, I just looked at the charts and it doesn’t seem to show signs of even slowing down. 7.something % is a pretty good clunk downward, but I think I’d just let it ride.
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Sky, the chart you are looking at is just showing you the price during regular market hours. It was down almost 8 bucks at the close. The after-hours trading is what I’m talking about. Its up $17.67 on the news. New all time high (which is a regular occurrence for this stock).[/quote]
Woo! That is a good one. I was checking out a 3year with some of the technicals. Hadn’t seen the news though cause some of those pages take forever to load on my old timey computer.
Man, my stock is really doing well!
I remember when I opined that Google and Tesla would work together to make an all-electric, driverless car for the near-future and then was roundly shouted down for it on this thread (it might have been the similar thread that was going on in PWI. I can’t remember).
Well, looks like I was right and all my detractors were wrong. This can only be good for the future of our stock in Tesla, on edge. Google is the most amazing American company since Ford or General Electric. Everything they touch turns into tech gold and now they’re getting into bed with Tesla. I love it.
i shoulda bought this yesterday…
Tesla has an economic moat.
“An economic moat is a structural thing. It?s like Southwest Airlines in the 1990s ? it was so deeply ingrained in the company culture, in every employee, that no one could copy it, even though everyone kind of knew how Southwest was doing it. If your competitors know your secret and yet still can?t copy it, that?s a structural advantage. That?s a moat.” -Mark Sellers
I assure you all, the American car companies can’t do what Tesla is doing. I explained earlier in the thread how the Japanese gave the Big 3 their methods of doing business and the Big 3 were all unable to implement. It will be even harder for them to copy Tesla due to their pre existing infrastructure as well as the corporate and union cultures. Tesla auto manufacturing was planned from the start how to best produce their vehicles. The American, Japanese and the European makers will all try to make the most of there existing infrastructure.
Saw one today in a parking lot with the vanity plate “GAS SUX”
[quote]on edge wrote:
Tesla has an economic moat.
“An economic moat is a structural thing. It?s like Southwest Airlines in the 1990s ? it was so deeply ingrained in the company culture, in every employee, that no one could copy it, even though everyone kind of knew how Southwest was doing it. If your competitors know your secret and yet still can?t copy it, that?s a structural advantage. That?s a moat.” -Mark Sellers
I assure you all, the American car companies can’t do what Tesla is doing. I explained earlier in the thread how the Japanese gave the Big 3 their methods of doing business and the Big 3 were all unable to implement. It will be even harder for them to copy Tesla due to their pre existing infrastructure as well as the corporate and union cultures. Tesla auto manufacturing was planned from the start how to best produce their vehicles. The American, Japanese and the European makers will all try to make the most of there existing infrastructure.[/quote]
Could you provide some references or some links for this thing with the Jap automakers and the Big 3? Sounds interesting and I’d like to read more about it.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
Tesla has an economic moat.
“An economic moat is a structural thing. It?s like Southwest Airlines in the 1990s ? it was so deeply ingrained in the company culture, in every employee, that no one could copy it, even though everyone kind of knew how Southwest was doing it. If your competitors know your secret and yet still can?t copy it, that?s a structural advantage. That?s a moat.” -Mark Sellers
I assure you all, the American car companies can’t do what Tesla is doing. I explained earlier in the thread how the Japanese gave the Big 3 their methods of doing business and the Big 3 were all unable to implement. It will be even harder for them to copy Tesla due to their pre existing infrastructure as well as the corporate and union cultures. Tesla auto manufacturing was planned from the start how to best produce their vehicles. The American, Japanese and the European makers will all try to make the most of there existing infrastructure.[/quote]
Could you provide some references or some links for this thing with the Jap automakers and the Big 3? Sounds interesting and I’d like to read more about it.[/quote]
Check out this series on This American Life. NUMMI (2010) - This American Life
It’s very interesting but be prepared to be ashamed to be an american. I was.
[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
Tesla has an economic moat.
“An economic moat is a structural thing. It?s like Southwest Airlines in the 1990s ? it was so deeply ingrained in the company culture, in every employee, that no one could copy it, even though everyone kind of knew how Southwest was doing it. If your competitors know your secret and yet still can?t copy it, that?s a structural advantage. That?s a moat.” -Mark Sellers
I assure you all, the American car companies can’t do what Tesla is doing. I explained earlier in the thread how the Japanese gave the Big 3 their methods of doing business and the Big 3 were all unable to implement. It will be even harder for them to copy Tesla due to their pre existing infrastructure as well as the corporate and union cultures. Tesla auto manufacturing was planned from the start how to best produce their vehicles. The American, Japanese and the European makers will all try to make the most of there existing infrastructure.[/quote]
Could you provide some references or some links for this thing with the Jap automakers and the Big 3? Sounds interesting and I’d like to read more about it.[/quote]
Check out this series on This American Life. NUMMI (2010) - This American Life
It’s very interesting but be prepared to be ashamed to be an american. I was.[/quote]
If you want the whole picture, you need to go back farther to the Japanese reconstruction and the story of W. Edwards Deming.
[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
Tesla has an economic moat.
“An economic moat is a structural thing. It?s like Southwest Airlines in the 1990s ? it was so deeply ingrained in the company culture, in every employee, that no one could copy it, even though everyone kind of knew how Southwest was doing it. If your competitors know your secret and yet still can?t copy it, that?s a structural advantage. That?s a moat.” -Mark Sellers
I assure you all, the American car companies can’t do what Tesla is doing. I explained earlier in the thread how the Japanese gave the Big 3 their methods of doing business and the Big 3 were all unable to implement. It will be even harder for them to copy Tesla due to their pre existing infrastructure as well as the corporate and union cultures. Tesla auto manufacturing was planned from the start how to best produce their vehicles. The American, Japanese and the European makers will all try to make the most of there existing infrastructure.[/quote]
Could you provide some references or some links for this thing with the Jap automakers and the Big 3? Sounds interesting and I’d like to read more about it.[/quote]
Check out this series on This American Life. NUMMI (2010) - This American Life
It’s very interesting but be prepared to be ashamed to be an american. I was.[/quote]
I just listened to the whole thing again. I found it just as interesting as before but this time didn’t feel the outrage I felt before. Probably because the first time I heard it was in '09 during the bankruptcy/economic disaster period. The result was what you typically get when you don’t have complete buy in all the way to the top.
[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
Tesla has an economic moat.
“An economic moat is a structural thing. It?s like Southwest Airlines in the 1990s ? it was so deeply ingrained in the company culture, in every employee, that no one could copy it, even though everyone kind of knew how Southwest was doing it. If your competitors know your secret and yet still can?t copy it, that?s a structural advantage. That?s a moat.” -Mark Sellers
I assure you all, the American car companies can’t do what Tesla is doing. I explained earlier in the thread how the Japanese gave the Big 3 their methods of doing business and the Big 3 were all unable to implement. It will be even harder for them to copy Tesla due to their pre existing infrastructure as well as the corporate and union cultures. Tesla auto manufacturing was planned from the start how to best produce their vehicles. The American, Japanese and the European makers will all try to make the most of there existing infrastructure.[/quote]
Could you provide some references or some links for this thing with the Jap automakers and the Big 3? Sounds interesting and I’d like to read more about it.[/quote]
Check out this series on This American Life. NUMMI (2010) - This American Life
It’s very interesting but be prepared to be ashamed to be an american. I was.[/quote]
Coop, did you listen to this? Do you see why I think the big 3 (and maybe the foreign competitors too) can’t do what Tesla is doing?
Previously Tesla scored the highest rating ever given by Consumer Reports.
Now Tesla has managed the same feat in Safety testing. As matter of fact, the Tesla Model S proved so tuff it broke the testing equipment!
[quote]on edge wrote:
Previously Tesla scored the highest rating ever given by Consumer Reports.
Now Tesla has managed the same feat in Safety testing. As matter of fact, the Tesla Model S proved so tuff it broke the testing equipment!
Read about this earlier. Good to see Tesla doing well.
Anyone read about Elon’s idea for a “hyperloop” ?
The shares I bought in May have now officially doubled in value. Hooray!
I’m actually in Southern California right now. Me, my kids and even my wife are on the lookout for Teslas. Unfortunately we’ve only seen them coming toward us and zooming by. We haven’t come along side one or, the grand prize, found one parked somewhere. We’d totally put our grimy little fingers all over one if we got the chance.
[quote]on edge wrote:
The shares I bought in May have now officially doubled in value. Hooray!
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I have began options trading TSLA, doing very well also.
I saw this article and thought of this thread: The Dark Secret of Electric Cars: Astounding Speed - ABC News
Jesus Christ. Tesla’s stock is really booming recently. China just announced an increase in subsidies for electric car purchases, and Tesla is perfectly poised to get in on the ground floor of a HUGE market.
I’ve heard rumor that BMW was looking into buying out Tesla, but I haven’t been able to substantiate any of it. Regardless, this whole bullshit with the cars catching on fire looks to have passed relatively quietly when all is said and done.
All the attention given to those fires was fueled by the major auto manufacturers’ lobbyists. People forget that in the same time that three or four Teslas caught on fire without anyone getting injured, there were probably a thousand people who died in car fires in GM’s or Toyota’s vehicles. As more and more people see for their own eyes that they’re perfectly fine vehicles, the supercharging stations continue to pop within 200 miles of each other, and the cost of the Model S continues to go down, Tesla’s future is looking rosy.
I know that caution is the better part of valor, but I don’t think it’s totally out of the question to start thinking of where the Model S should take its place amongst the all-time great vehicles ever made.
LOL I just looked at my account and noticed the Schwab Equity Rating for TSLA is a big fat F. Haha They better be wrong because I’m 46 grand into Tessy.
It looks like today may be the day we close over 200 dollars!
Has anyone bought TSLA besides DB?
I just went back and read my opening post and was reminded my initial investment was 8,700. I think my conviction must have grown quite a bit since then because I’ve now got 47,000 in Tesla. I’m not sure how much of that 47K is out of my pocket. My initial 8,700 is now worth 20,000 though.