Actually, this was my first TSLA purchase:
It tripled and doubled, a 6x expansion from 60 to 360 shares. At ~$230/share today, ~$83,000.
Even my purchases this year, $185/share, have gone up.
I invest with real money, not wishes.
Bob Wilson
Was Toyota right? Lagging EV sales
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It tripled and doubled, a 6x expansion from 60 to 360 shares. At ~$230/share today, ~$83,000.
Even my purchases this year, $185/share, have gone up.
I invest with real money, not wishes.
Bob Wilson
Just think how much more you would have made if you bought Gamestop....
My point is not about your investment decisions, it is about the day Musk became distracted with Twitter, Tesla has been a mediocre investment compared to average stocks. Regular independent boards watch watch sales volume, profit and stock price.
I want Tesla to succeed, but if their CEO continues to spend more energy arguing with celebrities than focused on building and selling cars, they will not.
I've been monitoring Twitter and it is less bad but still a poor noise-to-signal source. By less bad, the "block user" function works and after a couple of sessions, useful posting emerge from the noise. You just have to tune out the bad actors. Sad to say, Elon's political postings are intermixed with technical which makes it difficult to filter out his noise.
He isn't the first wealthy person to post nonsense. So lately I've suggested he 'run for office.' Given the choice, I think he would prefer to buy his politicians than be one.
Musk remains a fountain head of new and improved products: Starship; latest Model 3/Y updates; full self driving; Cybertruck; Semi-Truck and; neural implants. I poke fun at his Twitter/X political postings and don't let them cloud what he and his companies accomplish.
Bob Wilson
I already sample Elon's pique posts looking for technical content. But this article may help those who don't or don't have the time, to see one day's content: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/14/elon-musk-tweets-trump-conspiracy
It’s just after midnight mountain standard time in the US on 13 August when Elon Musk makes his first post of the day on X, the platform he bought for $44bn when it was known as Twitter. Musk has been tweeting for hours about his interview with Donald Trump, and he will continue into the night before taking a few hours’ break – presumably to sleep – and then logging back on to tweet dozens more times.
Over the next 24 hours, Musk will post over 145 times about a range of obsessions, projects and grievances to his 195 million followers. He will share anti-immigrant content, election conspiracies and attacks against the media. He will exchange tweets with far-right politicians, conservative media influencers and sycophantic admirers. He will send a litany of one-word replies that say “yeah”, “interesting” or simply feature a cry-laughing emoji.
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Over the next 24 hours, Musk will post over 145 times about a range of obsessions, projects and grievances to his 195 million followers. He will share anti-immigrant content, election conspiracies and attacks against the media. He will exchange tweets with far-right politicians, conservative media influencers and sycophantic admirers. He will send a litany of one-word replies that say “yeah”, “interesting” or simply feature a cry-laughing emoji.
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I've had blood kin who were comfortable with the false rumors and the political nonsense Musk spouts. I loved them for being family but could never follow some of their nonsense. Unlike Musk, they did not make my EV car nor increase my stock by 10 times.
I don't follow Musk's politics but the engineering in his companies is dead on.
Bob Wilson
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