Tesla Institutional holdings plummet- Seeking Alpha article

Tesla Institutional holdings plummet- Seeking Alpha article

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Tesla Model S as a Birthday Surprise For Arian on 9th Birthday

Project #TSLA4Tesla successfully resulted in a purchase of the Tesla Model S for Arian on December 1, 2015. It was ordered in the first week of October 2015 when the balance was around $75k in project #TSLA4Tesla. After considering a tax rebate of $7500 by the Federal Government and $2500 cash rebated by California state, this was enough to purchase one Tesla Electric car. (On the delivery day, the profit stood above $90k in TSLA stock trading). It was a bit difficult, psychologically, to send over $80,000 for a car. I never thought I would spend this much money to buy a car. However, this was a deal with Arian so my hesitation was my problem LOL. I took some deep breaths and EFTed the last payment of approx 80k from my bank account a few days before the scheduled delivery.

At the time of placing the order, I wanted this car to be delivered on Arian's birthday which was on December 1st. The delivery agent from Tesla, Van Nuys, CA service station, Sophea Ing made it possible. Tesla is known for its excellent customer service. It fell a bit short though IMO LOL. I had asked Sophea to see if Tesla can add something like a Tesla cap or a sweatshirt for Arian so he can proudly show off his Tesla. Probably Arian is one of the leading Tesla fans among kids his age. That few bucks of generosity by Tesla would have proved to be the BEST MARKETING DOLLARS ever spent in terms of ROI. Arian would have proudly talked about how Tesla is a great car to his friends and whoever he met.  This could push them a bit towards becoming future customers of Tesla or some EV. Well, one who can pay for a Tesla car can sure spend a few bucks. However, I wanted to tell Arian that Tesla company gave that cap or sweatshirt to its special fan on his 9th birthday. I had asked Tesla Delivery Specialist the same but all she could get was a coffee mug and an umbrella for a customer in California where a chance of using an umbrella is as rare as winning a jackpot in some lottery LOL.

Arian didn't know his car was coming. A few days before his birthday, I was driving him to school. We were talking about Beats headphones. He was pursuing me to buy one for him. During our talk, at one point, I told him that for the money of one Tesla car, one can buy around 500 good headphones. I asked him what he would choose. He immediately said, "No, Tesla is the best". He wanted some video games too so (at the hint of another Tesla owner on MyTesla forums), I asked Arian if he still wanted a Tesla or would he like me to buy all video game systems in the world with all video games available. His answer was the same, "Still, a Tesla". Doesn't this prove he is still a big fan of Tesla as much he was when I made this deal #TSLA4Tesla at the beginning of 2014?

On his birthday, I left my car at the local Walgreens parking lot and a friend gave me a ride to work. I took delivery of the car, drove it back to Simi Valley. I parked and left Tesla in the same parking lot in the evening. I drove home in my Honda Accord. As this was his birthday, we were going to the local CPK as he wanted to celebrate his birthday there. He is a Pizza lover too ;) I asked my nephew Nihar Patel, 19, to drive us all to CPK. At that point, in privacy, I told Nihar about the Tesla. Nihar got excited and was surprised too. He also didn't know that I was purchasing a Tesla. Arian's mom didn't know it either. Only my older son, Miraj who is a UCSD student, knew it. He was unfortunately in San Diego preparing for his finals. Nihar was the third person in the family to know about this car. I asked Nihar to take some quick videos and some photos to capture the moment when Arian met his dream car. When we were driving, I told everyone in the car that I needed to pick up some photos from Walgreens. I had Nihar park next to our Tesla. As Arian spotted this brand new Tesla in the next parking spot, he was excited as always to see a Tesla. This was probably the closest he was to a Tesla. (Same was true for me when I went to test drive a Tesla on the day of ordering. I had touched a Tesla first time that day!). As we come out of the car, and when Arian sees his car, well, feel those moments yourself. Nihar is not a great camera person lol (I myself try to take better photos but that is a different story) but he did capture the moment very well. Here is the video.

With Arian finally in his Tesla, this project #TSLA4Tesla, #Tradingwithapurpose concludes successfully. If you are curious to see all trades made in Tesla stock, click on this link.

Bought 400 shares of TSLA at $218.76 on 11/18/2015

Tesla stock TSLA had a good run this morning. It touched above 221 this morning. Then it came back to below $218. It looked good on the chart to do a quick day trade so bought these stocks mostly to sell by end of the day.

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Sold to open 4 calls of TSLA_112015C215 at $3 on 11/16/2015

Looks like Arian's luck is strong! I was a bit scared the way the selloff happened on Friday and TSLA tanked. I had put options which got in long position at $215! Luckily, the stock is moving up today! So I sold these Call options today. I would be happy to let go these stocks at $215 and keep the premium I got on options!

When it comes to matter of luck, luck- or things- whatever we call it plays out even. Today I also put a stock sell order for selling those 400 TSLA stocks at $214.98. If you check today's prices, the Tesla stock went as high as $214.97!!! I missed it by a penny! Not sure if #TSLA4Tesla wants to give more profit or wants us to lose more... Time will tell. I still have that order open for today though I may increase it to $215.98! When the stock came back to 214.97 and went down a bit, if it is to come back to this level, it might as well go up by another buck or so ;)

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Sold to open 2 puts of TSLA_110615P195 at $4

Tesla earnings to be announced in few minutes. The stock dropped from $212 (I missed an order to sell my 200 stocks by few cents) to $208 over few minutes. At that price, I am willing to buy 200 Tesla stocks that I sold yesterday at 195 -$4=$191. Hence sold 2 195 Put options and collected around $800 in premimum!

Last few trades before I conclude #TSLA4Tesla project!
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Sold to open 2 puts of TSLA_103015P212. at $5.45

Not sure why I made this trade... If TSLA- Tesla stock does not move much, most of my Call options will expire worthless :)
One option that is likely to get exercised is Call options expiring today with exercise price of 210! I already have 200 long position in TSLA so hopefully, if that is exercised, this will bring back the position at a lower effective price! Plus, I already have a limit order for selling TSLA call options for next week!

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Sold to open 4 calls of TSLA_102315C220

I need to close my long position asap! I am hoping TSLA stock will come up to 230..
I am worried it does not start a fresh downward streak soon.
Btw--- I booked one Tesla today... Hoping to get delivery by Arian's birthday on December 01!

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Bought 200 shares of TSLA at 220.51

Oh no! TSLA keeps tanking and so does the profit in Project #TSLA4Tesla!! I sort of felt that TSLA was to go down but I underestimated the intensity. I thought there will be slow decay in the prices and it will give me some chance to sell at rises but there is no rise at all. Here is my last chance for a recovery of 5-10 dollars.
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Sold open 4 puts of TSLA_100915P240 at $3.45

I am getting worried as I am building trades in TSLA assuming that next 3 days will not bring in too much movement...

I sold to open 4 puts of TSLA_100915P240 at $3.45 against the Short in 400 stocks I had few minutes ago.

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Shorted 400 shares of TSLA at $240.45

Shorted 400 stocks of Tesla/TSLA in project #TSLA4Tesla..

TSLA is teasing me these days and I am really worried that it is setting up some trap for me... 

Probably I need to close all of my positions and stay low...

I sold this but I am thinking to sell some PUT options too as a cushion in case of TSLA going up even though it will limit my profit.

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Sold 2 puts of TSLA_100915P245 at $5.45 on 10/05/2015

I expect the market to show weakness again but last two consecutive days of strength (Friday and today), makes me feel a bit bullish. I am already short TSLA Call options 245 for the week so decided to sell 2 PUT options too at 245 for $5.45 in project $TSLA4Tesla!

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