dualstow wrote:
I sold a lot of shares at about 340, and then kicked myself when it got that high. There are many ways to fail.
The painful memories. I think it gave me an ulcer from all the stress. Picking the stock of the decade is just as much a curse as it is a treasure. Never again...
1NV35T0R (Greg) wrote:
I want TSLA to keep rising for you dualstow but I also want it to come crashing down to maybe $35. Then I'd consider buying in again.
How about a 3-for-1 split? ;-)
Abd here you stand no taller than the grass sees
And should you really chase so hard /The truth of sport plays rings around you
1NV35T0R (Greg) wrote:
I want TSLA to keep rising for you dualstow but I also want it to come crashing down to maybe $35. Then I'd consider buying in again.
smurff wrote:
If "the higher they rise, the faster they fall" has any legitimacy as a saying, I suspect that Tesla May become an example. Fun while it lasted.
Tesla is down almost 14% ($17.51, the last time I checked) today. Apparently the Goldman Saxons think it will be priced around $84.
This is a bit past the point when I would have launched the "sell" button, since I would have tightened my stop to 15% a few dollars ago (to $113.27), back when the price was over $133.
Tesla says Model S gets best NHTSA safety rating ever...
While other manufacturers have been struggling to gain traction in a slow-growing battery car market, California start-up Tesla Motors has been exceeding even its own optimistic expectations with the big Model S sedan.
Offering a nearly 300-mile range with its optional 85 kilowatt-hour battery, three times more than most electric models, is one factor that appears to be boosting sales. But now, Tesla hopes there’ll be another reason for buyers to plug into the Model S: the maker is crowing that it has just received the best federal crash test results of any vehicle ever.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Tesla Model S received an overall five-star rating, as well as five stars in every individual test category. That’s something that only 1 percent of the vehicles NHTSA has tested have so far received. But the battery sedan also set a new record for the lowest likelihood for passenger injury ever achieved in the government tests.
Am I the only one wary of stuffing more and more high-tech crap into cars? The cynic in me thinks it's the only way they can sustain a moderate level of price inflation and keep their profit margins up. If they built a car today with the technology of a car from 1985 it would probably cost $3,000.
Yes, I know a lot of this is regulatory and that the NHTSA wouldn't let you build a car nowadays without automatic front back middle side up down force-predictive intelligently triggered nitrogen-filled carbon-neutral foam-cushioned airbags and all that jazz.
Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant.
- CEO Nwabudike Morgan
Did you also know that when the price of cars goes up from year to year the CPI does not count that as an increase? They say the added electronics and other gadgets add to the car value so the price is not counted as an increase in the CPI calculation.
After a decade of self-driving cars, maybe we can go ahead and take out the airbags and seat belts, and just leave the heatairconditioningstereosystemmovingseats. And, you know, other new features to occupy us since we're not driving it.
Abd here you stand no taller than the grass sees
And should you really chase so hard /The truth of sport plays rings around you
MangoMan wrote:
Amazon is offering Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century Kindle Edition
free for a limited time. Not sure when it ends.
If this continues Tesla could go the way of the Edsel.
But then again,
“We were able to contact the driver quickly and are pleased that he is safe. This was a significant accident where the car was traveling at such a high speed that it smashed through a concrete wall and then hit a large tree, yet the driver walked away from the car with no permanent injury. He is appreciative of the safety and performance of the car and has asked if we can expedite delivery of his next Model S.”?
If a car's design let me walk away after smashing through a concrete wall and a tree, I too would want another one.
"Well, if you're gonna sin you might as well be original" -- Mike "The Cool-Person"
"Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man" -- The Dude
"Well, if you're gonna sin you might as well be original" -- Mike "The Cool-Person"
"Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man" -- The Dude
jan van mourik wrote:
Dualstow, it's called "trailing stop order" :-)
Probably wise Because there are wild swings (much like my wife's emotions), I am letting it ride.
If I had invested 8K instead of eight hundred, I'd probably have a limit sell order in place.
Abd here you stand no taller than the grass sees
And should you really chase so hard /The truth of sport plays rings around you
I'm only saying that because I made that mistake with Netflix. I sold a bunch at $180 to take a profit. Smart move eh!
"Well, if you're gonna sin you might as well be original" -- Mike "The Cool-Person"
"Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man" -- The Dude
I can see why it's often on your mind.
Because there are wild swings (much like my wife's emotions), I am letting it ride.
