Tesla Investor Blog

Introduction A week and a half ago, Tesla announced a five-for-one stock split , and the stock has been on an absolute tear since then: Yahoo - TSLA Chart - 3/8 to 22/8 Ever since then, there have been discussions on the TMC Investor Forum about how various parties are affected by the stock split. What happens to long positions, derivative positions, and normal short positions is relatively straight forward, and it didn't take long for the consensus to reflect this. However, a consensus has still not been reached on how one particular position is affected by the stock split: a naked short position. I've done quite a bit of research on the inner workings of the stock market since then, and I believe I can shed a lot of light on precisely how naked shorts work, so that people can have a more informed opinion on the subject. I will present all of this research in this short blog post. The inner workings of the stock market Although the girl's Indian accent is rather hard to u

This blog gives an overview of who the largest TSLA shareholders are as of the end of Q2'20, and how it changed compared to the end of Q1'20. For the previous two installments please refer to: The Mechanisms That Fueled TSLA's Meteoric Q1'20 Rise TSLA Holders Q1'20 (Top 58) A spreadsheet with the complete data can be downloaded here: TSLA Holders Q2'20 PDF TSLA Holders Q2'20 Excel TSLA Holders Q2'20 Numbers Top 69 TSLA Holders Q2'20 #1: Elon Musk Type: Insider Previous Rank: #1 Previous Shares:  38,658,670 Current Shares: 38,658,670 Change:  0% Stake:  20.7% #2: Baillie Gifford Type:  Long Term Institutional Investor Previous Rank:  #2 Previous Shares:  12,076,416 Current Shares:  11,771,213 Change:  -2.5% Stake:  6.3% Allocation: 9.69% https://fintel.io/so/us/tsla/baillie-gifford- I think we're about to find out in Q3 and Q4 whether Baillie has a limit to how much of its portfolio it can invest in a single stock. At the end of Q2 at a stock pric