It is awfully tough to be an impartial judge/evaluator of informtation given all the spin. https://electrek.co/2018/07/24/tesla-troll-short-doxxed-oil-industry-musk-calls-boss/
Normally I wouldn’t encourage people doxing anonymous users on the internet, but in this case, I don’t even know how Seeking Alpha let this guy post his blogs anonymously. Also, he has proven to be an internet troll attacking and insulting people online, which is one of the most cowardly things you can do anonymously. Don’t get me wrong, insulting people online even with your real name behind the safety of your keyboard is already weak, but not even being willing to put your name on it is a new level of cowardice. The fact that he is working for a company heavily invested in the oil industry is certainly interesting, but it doesn’t mean that it is an organized effort by the fossil fuel industry to discredit Tesla.
I can't tell how much that BS article helped the jump toward the close, but I wouldn't mind giving that jerky author a big "Thank You" since I bought Puts as TSLA pushed toward $310. If Facebook gets smashed down 25% after a miss, imagine what sort of beating the cash-burning Tesla will get when it reports massive losses next Wednesday. One of these days (hopefully within the next 12 months) I'm gonna catch Tesla on a 100-point+ nosedive with my Puts.
"making investment decisions by looking solely at the fundamentals of individual companies is no longer a viable investment philosophy."
Why are they talking about starting plants when the "news organizations" all keep saying they are going out of business? 44% risk of default per bond prices? https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-explores-building-major-factory-in-europe-1532961828
In october 2016 Elon Musk told he was looking for a new plant in The Netherlands. So starting new plants is already old news. He is just playing poker. He needs to bring good news. And planning a new factory in Europe is good news, and he can postpone and even cancel it later. Not expensive to do and might help Musk to raise new money now. Fooling the investors? Just to proof my posting, here is the article from 2016: https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/kabinet-hoopt-op-gigafabriek-tesla-in-nederland~b83f74a8/ In 2014 he was speaking about a battery plant in Germany too, but till today no plant, just words. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/un...-batteriefabrik-in-deutschland-a-1004441.html
My guess about the Earnings' action: Stock will drop a bit but not much maybe 20 bucks overnight, but by the next 2 days it will climb back and even higher after Musk throws in a couple of tweets...