{"id":40796,"date":"2015-05-17T21:16:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=40796"},"modified":"2015-05-17T21:18:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:18:05","slug":"tesla-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/tesla-revisited","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday I posted this long term chart on TSLA suggesting the coming weeks could\u00a0present significant upside for\u00a0the stock. My thought process was the gap fill following the earnings report would serve as a potential catalyst for further upside on the stock. The short interest continues to be very high. My &#8220;best case&#8221; is\u00a0the 265 area where it had put in a &#8220;lower high&#8221; prior to its October 2014 earnings report. I played it with the weekly 240 calls, which I sold as it ran up early in the week to 248. I bought some shares back on the Thursday pull back to 242.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-revisited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-40797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-revisited.jpg\" alt=\"tsla revisited\" width=\"603\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-revisited.jpg 631w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-revisited-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-revisited-300x299.jpg 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-revisited-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plan this week is to buy higher strike calls on any morning dropouts. All of these trades are reported live in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/smb-tools\">SMB Real Time and discussed on our AM Meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-daily-may-17th1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-40800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-daily-may-17th1.jpg\" alt=\"tsla daily may 17th\" width=\"589\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-daily-may-17th1.jpg 794w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tsla-daily-may-17th1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sspencer_smb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital and SMB University which provides trading education in stocks, options, forex and futures. He has traded professionally for 18 years. His email address is: sspencer@smbcap.com.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Spencer is currently long\u00a0TSLA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/smb-tools\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.smbtraining.com\/banners\/toolstrial.png\" alt=\"How Good Can You Be\" width=\"600\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday I posted this long term chart on TSLA suggesting the coming weeks could\u00a0present significant upside for\u00a0the stock. My thought process was the gap fill following the earnings report would serve as a potential catalyst for further upside on the stock. The short interest continues to be very high. My &#8220;best case&#8221; is\u00a0the 265 area where it had put &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/tesla-revisited\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":40797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,453],"tags":[4427,4426],"class_list":["post-40796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steven_spencer_steves_blogs","category-trading_ideas","tag-revisited","tag-tesla"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tesla Revisited | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/tesla-revisited\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tesla Revisited | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last Sunday I posted this long term chart on TSLA suggesting the coming weeks could\u00a0present significant upside for\u00a0the stock. 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