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Really Need TSLA Shorts To Liquidate

There seems to be one thing holding me from huge gains on the TSLA options, and that is the presence of short sellers in the stock. Various elements on Twitter have already summed up this, and I agree with them.

For TSLA to sell off to where it should be, short sellers have to die.

For the moment, the ever rising pain threshold in the stock keeps a steady stream of buyers from bailing shorts, trying to salvage what’s left of their dignity. These buyers are replaced, not by a massive spike higher, but rather by more short sellers, trying their hand (and probably coy longs slyly selling out, even as they pitch that next “Elon Musk Is The Second Coming” post).

I don’t understand how difficult it is to stay away from shorting a stock that’s trading at (what is it even now? 270X EPS?) such elevated levels. Anyone crazy enough to pay $100 for TSLA, or $130, would surely pay $200. Why not? What stops them? They’ve already crossed a line.

What TSLA really needs, for me going forward (and preferably before September), is to have the short position in TSLA drop to 0%. Then, TSLA longs will be left holding a company at >270X Annualized EPS that no one in their right minds will buy.

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Finished Building TSLA Put Position

I’ve been carefully assembling a put position in TSLA stock for a few weeks now – crafted from one half TSLA January 2014 35 puts, the other half from January 2015 45 & 30 puts, basically just buying whatever I could at as cheap as someone would sell them.

Total allocation stands between 2-3% of my assets, when finalized. I won’t be buying any more, I don’t think.

Any major disruption to the castle in the cloud construction, over the next two years, will result in payday.

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Bought TSLA January 18, 2014 35 Puts

I just threw a couple percent into some TSLA puts, betting on the end times for TSLA shareholders developing sometime in the next 7 months. If the stock can dip below 35, I’ll make a fat payoff. If not, I lost a couple percent (my account deviates by more than I’m betting).

I’ll start by giving a little bit of good news to you TSLA owners. As it turns out, I know one of the guys who helped build their assembly line. That took some hunting, but he mostly had good things to say about TSLA manufacturing.

1) The line is clean, finished, and should be good for up to 35,000 vehicles per year
2) The line is state of the art and not vehicle specific – retooling is easy for new products, unlike at the big automotive companies
3) Building the line was a clusterfuck and TSLA lost its ass; but it made a good move and fired every supplier, then rehired who was needed. TSLA also started scalping their suppliers of their workers – so the company has built up some good internal manufacturing experience by stealing from their contractors.

My friend is rather proud of the TSLA line, and had nothing but good things to say about it. There shouldn’t be any unforseen calamity coming from their production abilities, unless projections start calling for more than 35,000 vehicles per year in the immediate future (assuming they don’t have time to start up another assembly line).

Now for the bad news. My friends are all engineering car junkies (every conversation inevitably turns to auto…ugh) and we held a little pow wow this weekend. There’s a good bit of doubt that TSLA can continue meeting their sales. Even the guy who helped build the line cracked a joke about them just needing to sell cars now.

One of the bigger car guys pointed out that TSLA is trying to outsell several of the luxury/performance car makers “combined”.

Mind you I started the conversation by bashing TSLA a little. Back in ’08/’09, I told this same crowd of friends that GM was going bankrupt and they almost stoned me. Insulting coveted and beloved automotives in this circle is generally met with outright hostility.

When I trashed TSLA, nobody defended them. I was surprised.

The general feel of the group was that TSLA’s product is beautiful, but they don’t stand a chance of edging out other luxury/performance vehicles at the Model S’ price tag.

Now for the worse news.

AutoData is reporting that TSLA sales dropped 15% in May. TSLA shareholders had better pray that’s a one off, and not demand for their vehicles being satisfied. Because at $104 with sky high price to earnings and intrinsic value near to $10 (after the issuance), any disruption of the dream will disembowel the stock. And since Musk just raised a billion, half from new shares, sentiment against him could turn pretty rapidly if people start to get the idea that he duped them.

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