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2020 Predictions Report Card

Item 1 - Tesla will lose more money in 2020 than 2019.

I missed this one clearly. Didn't realize that they could recognize three years of credits in a single year, because I was using GAAP. Tesla does not appear to be conforming to GAAP here.


Doubt the auditors make a stink about it but who knows.
Also note that the total net income for the first nine months of 2020 ($451M) matches almost exactly the increase in A/R balance ($433M). A/R balance is now 1.76B, dwarfing their reported profits of $451M.

Item 2 - Model S will be discontinued.

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They didn't discontinue. They dropped the price $10,000 instead. Combining this will the price cuts in 2019, including free EAP, gross margins for the Model S are now decisively negative. Giving myself partial credit on this one. (:

Item 3 - Model Y price will be cut $2K after initial orders are filled.

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Ding ding ding. Prices were cut $3K right after initial backlog was filled.

Item 4 - MY SR+ will be released


Missed this one. My best guess is that M3 SR+ are so low, they don't want to offer a similar MY variant.
Friendly reminder:
Please do not invest money you can't afford to lose.


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This is personal for a lot of people. We've never seen anything like this.

These aren't just random comments on the internet, community is meaningful, this is a person standing up in a stadium of millions of people they consider allies/friends/confidants speaking their painful truth and getting a a roar of applause and cheers and support.


This is going to be in textbooks one day
I have started a position in $SSPK.
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SPAC - $SSPK Silver Spike Acquisition Comp

They are merging with WM Holdings, Inc who owns Weedmaps. Founded in 2008. Lead by CEO Chris Beals. Former life-sciences attorney (important - will come in later).


Basic Description:

The business is a two-sided marketplace which serves customers and sellers of marijuana products.

Who are they?

On the consumer side, https://t.co/sHZKPFCY7I which is a marketplace for standardized marijuana products.

Weed Maps is the world’s largest base of cannabis users with over 10M MAUs, 90% of which are cannabis users, and a stunning 70% are DAILY users.


A key part of the marketplace is the differentiation between alcohol/tobacco and cannabis. Cannabis is *not* a standardized product so Weedmaps compiles millions of data points from strain traits, user feedback, effects, etc., to suggest the best products for the user.

Weedmaps is operating at a 1.5B GMV run rate. With cannabis illegal on the Federal level, they do not currently take a percentage of this GMW but stated that they plan to with Federal legalization.
The guy I used to work with (I’ll call him “Q”) who shorted $TSLA at $600 in Dec called me today:

Q: Why is $TSLA up 6% on no news?

GB: Because it was down 8% yesterday on no news - unless you call a 10 bp rise in treasury yields and $BTC collapsing news. You still short?


2/ Q: Of course I’m still short. It’s up another 30% since we talked two weeks ago. It’s all mo’.

GB: $TSLA MIC Y has a 4 mo wait. It’s entering India. Analysts are playing leapfrog raising PTs. Active mgrs have to own it or get fired. It’s cheap at 80x 2022 EPS vs 55% growth.

3/ Q: Your earnings estimates are like twice consensus.

GB: The Street’s been wrong on $TSLA forever. Why do you listen to them? You really shouldn’t be short going into Biden’s inaugural speech and the FY’21 volume guide at the end of Jan. You’re going to get run over.

4/ Q: Whatever.

GB: Did you rent a Tesla for a week like I told you?

Q: No. You know I don’t drive.

GB: Did you build a $TSLA 5-yr volume, earnings, cash flow model?

Q: No. No one can forecast out 5 years.

GB: Did you talk to any Audi or BMW dealers? Or Tesla owners?

5/ Q: I don’t have time for that.

GB: Q, you haven’t done any real research. $TSLA ‘s up 40% since you shorted it. Maybe you should figure out why it keeps going up.

Q: It keeps going up because people like you are pumping it.

GB: You’re giving people like me too much credit.
At a time when Buffett is being criticised for his style, again, I can't help but admire the investor & the person. Can't help but want to be more like him.

"Buy a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up."

Some excerpts:

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"Buy stocks for simple reasons, not torturous & sophisticated ones".

Eventually the thesis for a good investment boils down to 2-3 simple points. You have to do a lot of work to figure out what those are & why.

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Even Buffett has struggled with & changed his exit decisions. This I believe is a much tougher problem than the buy decision.

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1969 article: He has made a fortune and is no longer motivated to count boxcars and read statistical manuals. He comes close to the truth when he says: “You shouldn’t be doing at 60 what you did at 20.”

90 & still counting box-cars.

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He attributes his problem to a market that no longer lends itself to his kind of analysis, where real values are hard to find. - 1969

It has been 50 years since we are debating whether the market values "this kind of analysis".

"This kind of analysis" is all that there is.

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Let's look again at the 2005-2008 two parabolic advances in $gold. first, read yesterday's thread if you haven't:


Today i want to look what some major miners did - between the 2 parabolic gold advances: how did they act?

Getting more historic context in the minds, will allow us to navigate calmer the stormy waters ahead, and HOW we want to manage them.

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my basic framework is we will see a parabolic metal top mid 2021, followed by another parabolic metal top early 2023.

Now what did some miners do in a same situation: the 2006-2008 timeframe.

Notice the $GDX was launched exactly a few weeks after the 2006 top 😉

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example 1 of 4 is Barrick
gold lines = 2 gold parabolic tops.

Barrick didn't advance much first, and as such had only a 23% retrace before setting a floor.

Not something you would have wanted to trade.

Even with the 50% gold parabola retrace, the metal floor was $150 higher


example 2 of 4 is Hecla

while Hecla corrected 42%, the correction was very fast in time. The new metal floor made it quickly rise back after.

Something we could have hedged with SLV puts for example.

Silver retraced 38% and traded in tandem with $gold