How Elon Musk Outsmarted Short Sellers

Jul 6, 2020

Elon Musk as you could have recalled tweeted a while ago that "Tesla's price is too high imo", this caused a reaction in which short sellers broke off the resistance curve of Tesla early, allowing Tesla to smoothly go up past $1250 afterwards as a positive retracement reaction with barely any resistance. Many of us thought in May he was losing his mind, and personally I was still bullish. This TradingView user said it helped trigger the NASDAQ uptick rule, and others have also been dumbfounded on maybe this being strategic. That being said, since the market reacted to a natural mathematical pattern as a result of him saying his stock is "overpriced", technically Elon Musk can't be accused of any market manipulation. He played the SEC, short sellers, and the overly bearish investors like cats w/ a laser pointer. Maybe this was his plan all along. Elon Musk: 1, Short Sellers: 0.