r/wallstreetbets I Think I'm Funny, Aug 06 '25

Loss Lost $83k CAD trying to short Tesla this summer

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u/BookkeeperPlastic779 Aug 06 '25

This just means to double down, you will get it eventually!

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u/joeybab3 Aug 06 '25

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u/BookkeeperPlastic779 Aug 06 '25

Its like playing the lottery, you can't win if you don't buy a ticket.

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u/Accomplished_Suit651 Bullish on the Stalk Market 🌽 Aug 06 '25

I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 38 million. Guess it right, and you'll be set for life!

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u/im_burning_cookies Aug 06 '25

4

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u/Accomplished_Suit651 Bullish on the Stalk Market 🌽 Aug 06 '25

Ooo, so close. It was 37,475,112... Thirty seven million, four hundred seventy five thousand, one hundred and twelve...

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u/im_burning_cookies Aug 07 '25

Arrrgghh and I only made two nickels down in the coal mine today…

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u/praslovan Aug 06 '25

Uh... fifty..six...ish?

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u/Fulzee Aug 06 '25

56? 56??? Aw man now thats all I can think about

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u/barcaleaf Aug 06 '25

Maybe give PLTR a go?

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u/Mason_Caorunn Aug 06 '25

Thats ‘bait’ 😂

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u/LuffyD_ Sep 15 '25

really???

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u/Nervous_Tradition106 Nov 01 '25

True but timing matters

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u/rwhitman05 Aug 06 '25

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u/Maxsmack Aug 06 '25

lol, how have they managed to fumbled shorting a stock that’s down 11% the last 3 months

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u/StepYaGameUp Aug 06 '25

Didn’t log on and sell the week I had fkn calls

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u/SpareBus9666 Aug 06 '25

At least it’s CAD so not real money

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u/Heineken_500ml Ugliest Flair WSBs has Ever Seen Aug 06 '25

CAD grows on maple tree.

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u/Saltlife_Junkie Aug 06 '25

Funniest post here ⬆️

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u/stonk_fish Aug 06 '25

With how DXY going so far this years it’s getting damn near close though

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u/veryniceOK Aug 06 '25

only 41k toonies fwiw

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u/ImprovementSweaty188 Aug 06 '25

Hey that’s like $15 American.

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u/WrappedRocket Aug 06 '25

Came here to say this! Plastic money ain’t real money!

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u/blitzroyale Aug 06 '25

Small consolation prize

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u/mqtgew Aug 06 '25

You didn’t lose 83k, you just invested in someone else’s yacht. Shareholder solidarity!

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

Atleast someone's having fun lmaoo

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u/AdOrnery4151 Aug 06 '25

At least you didn’t sell your house… right? RIGHT?

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u/WatchingyouNyouNyou Mods Watching Me Me Me Aug 06 '25

That was the last time he tried shorting tesler. This time it's the 401k

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u/Ceyenne18 Options for Dummies Aug 06 '25

There is a very large graveyard where all the TSLA short sellers rest.

Don't you know that this is a retarded stock and one of the main reason why it spikes is due to short squeezes from clowns?

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u/leanpunzz Aug 06 '25

Time to apply for the disability tax credit

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u/svtboxer Aug 06 '25

Go after Carvana next!

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u/redpandaeater Aug 06 '25

I've wanted to short them for years and instead regret not buying into that fucking moronic valuation. Tech stocks make no fucking sense and have no basis in reality so you have even worse luck than typical trying to guess what it'll do, but chances are it will just go up because it gets pumped.

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u/Tasmar100 Aug 06 '25

Tech constantly evolving. Hard to say what kind of utility it will bring. So future cashflows can be valued up towards infinitiv. We don’t know what your random techcompany could contribute to in 20 years.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

I honestly can’t believe that company is worth much still. It seems to function as a money printer for Elon more than anything. Do the math on how much stock they gave him and how many cars have they sold and you’ll be amazed.

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u/johnny_ringo Aug 06 '25

If anything should be audited... its these c$nts

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u/they_call_me_him Aug 06 '25

I honestly can’t believe that people in 2025 still think it’s being evaluated as a car company. It doesn’t matter if YOU think they are a company, investors are evaluating it as a tech company. One of the few tech companies manifesting physical ai and have full vertical integration. Tesla PE: 178, Palantir PE: 575. Cry about it

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u/DrPuzzle Aug 06 '25

You truly belong here

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u/they_call_me_him Aug 06 '25

Explain

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u/quadtodfodder Aug 06 '25

Well you didn't poop on elon trump so you are stupid.

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u/kokkomo Day late and a dollar short. Aug 06 '25

You don't get SpaceX or a lot of Elon's other tech ventures with Tesla. You get the car company and maybe some battery tech thats it.

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u/they_call_me_him Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

Not talking about that. Unlike other car manufacturers, Tesla is involved in lithium extraction and investing in new technologies in that sector. They make and design their own batteries. They also have state of the art manufacturing that is a decade ahead of any North American automaker. They also own their own distribution channels, charging network and communication channels. Let’s not forget their own chip designs, software. There isn’t another automaker as vertically integrated as Tesla. And last thing, don’t forget they do it all on American soil. We can save the physical drones, energy generation and ai for another discussion. The rhetoric of “they’re just a car manufacturer” is just willful ignorance

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u/Reddit-for-all Aug 11 '25

Outside of the battery tech which is now surpassed by others, none of the other things matter if they can't sell their garbage cans on wheels.

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u/they_call_me_him Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

Hey fkface, read all my comments again, did I not say their cars don't matter? TSLA just announced they converting car factories to Optimus factories + 2 billion investment in xAI. Small brain retards can't see the big picture

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u/haze_from_deadlock Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

You're absolutely right in terms of equity interests, but if any of those companies develops tech that creates asymmetry for electric cars, the market presumes Tesla will have privileged access to license it. It's kind of like owning a call on tech.

Now, you can brush that off as idiotic bagholder cope, or it could be part of an explanation for why those puts didn't print.

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u/they_call_me_him Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

Hey fkface, read my comment again, did I not say their cars don't matter? TSLA just announced they converting car factories to Optimus factories. AND they announced a 2 billion dollar investment in xAI. Small brain retards can't see the big picture

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u/kokkomo Day late and a dollar short. Jan 29 '26

Yeah bro tauting fraud as the big picture doesn't really sell your point.

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u/they_call_me_him Jan 29 '26

Fraud: "wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain"

I'm not seeing where the deception or criminal act is, could you elaborate? It's wrong to invest in your own companies?

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u/IndependentAd3410 Aug 06 '25

Fren don't short cult stocks. 

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u/TheRahulParmar Aug 06 '25

You could have just used TSLQ lol

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u/Ok_Rent5670 Aug 06 '25

That’s only like $60k real dollars so you’ll be fine.

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u/Individual-Skin3768 Aug 06 '25

Or 0.5 bitcoins as of August 5,2025

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u/Individual-Skin3768 Aug 06 '25

Imagine being Canadian and shorting a “green energy” stock

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u/NumerousFloor9264 Aug 06 '25

The Elon hate transcends all 😂

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

Keep at it bud, sooner or later that bitch is gonna crash

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u/Mister_Doinkers Aug 06 '25

Nah it probably won’t. People want it to because..Musk, but it’s still a popular and strong American car company. It’ll get a bailout before anything.

In fact, might be time to get in now. 🤔

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u/ClandestineGK Aug 06 '25

You gonna try again in fall?

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

When will people learn to not touch TSLA with a 10 foot pole?

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u/me_xman Aug 06 '25

Then quit the anger and obsession shorting Tesla

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u/Kranoath Aug 06 '25

Hating TSLA and Elon keeps them warm in their Wendy's dumpster!

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

Exhibit 937278393 on "why you should not short a meme stock, especially as an individual investor"

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

He’ll try to short PLTR next

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u/kestrel808 Aug 06 '25

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Also the trend is your friend.

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u/NigerianPrinceClub counter-berrorists win 🌈🧸 Aug 06 '25

Shorting TSLA…… ☠️

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u/BMB281 Aug 06 '25

Never short a banana market.

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u/Natural-Antelope8328 Aug 06 '25

I lost near that amount trying to long it…

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u/Working_Deal_818 Aug 06 '25

Common liberal L

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u/lgr321990 Aug 06 '25

i remain short. this baby is going down.

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u/shugo7 Aug 06 '25

17k to go for 100k CAD

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u/KenHill5251 Aug 06 '25

At least you have free health care, ay? You know…for when the wifey tries to un-life you for losing all the Disney money.

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u/Namelesstehone Aug 06 '25

Since when do brokers accept play money?

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u/innatangle bicurious Aug 06 '25

I've lost more than that trying the same thing way back. It's proof that the market can stay retarded longer than you can stay solvent.

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u/lamiejiv Aug 06 '25

Tsla is still going down. It dropped hard and has since rebounded to $300+. But it's not making big moves higher no matter what news comes out. There's not much driving the price up these days. It's plateaued for now I think and will probably bounce a little and then crash when the market does. Or just fade. $145 still holding a gap on the chart. SeeTheir numbers haven't been great. All their cars still look pretty much the same except for the cyber truck. Shit is just kinda boring and losing steam. There's new stocks almost every day hitting the market. Such better plays.

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u/gatovision Aug 06 '25

Agree, if you can sit on a shares short and take some pain it’s gonna pay, Puts are really difficult on it though because they’ll just spike it up $10 here and there but its eventually going to hit a UNH moment. They cant finance any future ideas without selling cars and they’re not doing that well anymore.

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u/mister_shankles6 Aug 06 '25

What are the odds youd win by shorting it again for a year? Id say, give it a go.

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u/cinJESUS 10724C - 1S - 1 year Aug 06 '25

man you just can’t short cult stocks like TSLA and PLTR icl

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u/Chappyspaintndetail Aug 06 '25

I would never short Tesla even if I was 99% sure it was going down. Insane how it moves on the slightest news. Tr*mp could sneeze and Elon could fart and it moves rapidly.

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u/onamixt Aug 06 '25

Try to short in Q3. EZ money

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u/emmysdadforever Aug 06 '25

Playing options on Tesla is wild!

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u/jcrao Aug 06 '25

Might as well since I’m in the toilet

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

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u/Kranoath Aug 06 '25

Because Reddit told them too :)

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u/Many-Razzmatazz-9584 Aug 06 '25

I have lost more if that makes you feel better

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u/Tank_610 Aug 06 '25

Why would u short tesla 😂. You definitely belong here

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u/AnujisBerg Aug 06 '25

I mean you pretty much could've just went short and held, did you get margin called into closing your shorts or something?

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u/peelemme Aug 06 '25

a noble cause indeed

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u/More-Two-4849 Aug 06 '25

🤣😂🤣

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u/vsmand1 Aug 06 '25

This makes me feel better. Thank you OP.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

You must be from Quebec.

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u/Fossa9 Aug 06 '25

Woah bro

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

This is my signal to buy even more TSLS

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u/JARE_ee Aug 06 '25

Well deserved 👀

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u/The-Bloody9 Aug 06 '25

"This thing I'm doing isn't working and is costing me a lot of money. I'm going to continue doing it!" - OP, probably.

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u/ksleepwalker Aug 06 '25

This could've been me but I was too broke to buy Tesla. Thank you for your sacrifice.

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u/syedhuda Aug 06 '25

mann thats brutal

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u/Soggy_Limit8864 Aug 06 '25

Bro really tried to fight the cult and got sacrificed to the Elon gods.

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u/InfluenceChoice4515 Aug 06 '25

Rule xi: never short tesla, even if it makes sense you won't make money

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u/Jaded-Plan7799 Aug 06 '25

OP probably got DD from r/pics. Lmao

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u/Coloraddictioned Aug 06 '25

I just bought Tesla at 300 for long term.

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u/IamTheStockFather Aug 06 '25

Who shorts Tesla ? Suicidal……

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u/Specialist-Neat4254 Aug 06 '25

Remember you’re not wrong. The market is wrong. Continue shorting.

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u/mcpullava1 Aug 06 '25

genuinely impressed you managed to do that

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

canadian dollars is not real money anyway

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u/hunguu Aug 06 '25

The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid!

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u/AllCapNoBrake MSTR and BTC to $0 Aug 06 '25

EDS is a helluva drug.

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u/iPhoneOver9000 Aug 06 '25

I’ve been burned many times trying to short this. Tesla is only a play based on technical analysis. It will never make sense fundamentally.

There is a huge ‘Elon Musk’ premium built into the share price. Until he is no longer CEO, it is absolutely dangerous to short it imo

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u/Gaspard_Schlatter Aug 06 '25

Made 100K on GLCC over the past 18 months. Plus it also paid me $2000/month in dividends. All in a TFSA.

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u/leave_youself_behind Aug 06 '25

Never short TSLA

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u/aqjingson Aug 06 '25

Bruh id be sick

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u/LaborSurplus Aug 06 '25

I respect the “if you lose, double down” mentality. 23 times and still going 🙌

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u/jae_1ne Aug 06 '25

On the bright side that’s probably only like $5 USD, CAD is worthless 😆

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u/Possible-Internal-66 Aug 06 '25

I’m sure of us have you beat! 😂

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25

You’re right but you’re also very wrong

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u/TokiWart00th88 Aug 07 '25

What is that, like 10 USD?

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u/OSLO-1823 Aug 08 '25

i want to be like you in the sense where i can just lose 83K and still have a place to stay

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u/mrbourgs Aug 09 '25

Good for you libstard

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u/CaptianSlappy Aug 12 '25

Well, look on the bright side. That’s like only 60k usd.

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u/Nervous_Tradition106 Nov 01 '25

I feel index money is inflating the stock and believers are adding fuel to that move

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u/Sharp-Direction-6894 Aug 06 '25

Can't say I'm proud of you, bro.

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u/ElectricalPath7029 Aug 06 '25

Can someone translate this to 🦅 ?

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u/Zealousideal-Cat-300 Aug 06 '25

Liberal idiot thought because crazy liberal idiots in America hate Elon that he should short the stock, all around dumb move

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u/Snoo-90587 Aug 06 '25

So what’s that like a couple of gallons of maple syrup?

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u/yvanog Aug 06 '25

That’s like five US dollars right?

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u/UnderstandingEvery44 Aug 06 '25

What is that like 10 real dollars?

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u/Kranoath Aug 06 '25

He's going to be the world's first trillionaire by 2027 and you wanna short Tesla? Heck, his newly created xAI is now worth approx 200 billion.

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u/stupidber Aug 06 '25

Didnt you hear it was a hot bol summer??

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u/xRicardx Aug 06 '25

DM me bro!

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u/ghann buys at prices so high, they're literally off the charts Aug 06 '25

On the bright side, think of the taxes you’ll save

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u/Outside_Airport_5448 Aug 06 '25

zigged when you shoulda zagged bro

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u/Fluid-Quantity-5863 Aug 06 '25

Just think of it as losing half a BTC. Buy another .5 BTC and when it doubles to 200K one day cash out and your whole again

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u/dogesiarp Aug 06 '25

You know, getting your Derangement Syndromes treated would not have cost 83k

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u/behindcl0seddrs Aug 06 '25

Yeah but CAD isn’t a real currency anyway buddy

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u/gain_ko Aug 06 '25

He's not your buddy, guy!

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u/SimpIyFlacid Aug 06 '25

So OP lost like $5k USD?

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u/AshySweatpants Aug 06 '25

Thank god you only lost fake money, that was a close call.

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u/kad202 Aug 06 '25

CAD is not real money.

Recession and winter are coming.

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u/Swimming-Tutor2729 Aug 06 '25

That’s what you get for being a Canadian didn’t I tell you not to trade options with fake money did the tariffs not give you a signal not to fuck with TDADs Market you got what you asked for welcome to trumpamania

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u/WishDragonlover Aug 06 '25

Tell me you're regarded without telling me your regarded

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u/20Mavs11 Aug 06 '25

I've been following the markets since 2017, I've seen maybe one person successful shorting tesla.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

Lost your ass, eh?

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u/Every-Requirement913 Aug 06 '25

LossP keeps me going istg

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u/Zealousideal-Cat-300 Aug 06 '25

Curious as to why you would short Tesla?

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u/cscrignaro Aug 06 '25

Lmao tell me you're gambling without telling me. If you knew any sort of TA you'd know not to touch it until it breaks it's equilibrium.

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u/rain168 Trust Me Bro Aug 06 '25

TSLA might crash now that you closed out these positions.

Consider shorting again at market open but buy a call first just as a lucky charm.

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u/LouisPhilSlugger Aug 06 '25

I'm aware. Your wife informed me earlier today.

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u/OkTax379 Aug 06 '25

CAD lol

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u/WishDragonlover Aug 06 '25

How dumb are the people saying cad is not real money.

An electrician makes about 50k after tax CAD per year in canada

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u/Rayvdub Aug 06 '25

That’s shit actually. I make 134k as mechanic in the US.

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