i'm almost 70 and have been investing for over 40+ years, however the EVDL is supposed to be for EV's, including EV boats so..
From: Mark Abramowitz <ma...@enviropolicy.com> To: robert winfield via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> Cc: robert winfield <winfield...@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:29 PM Subject: OT - Re: [EVDL] Go Tesla go! Hard to predict the future. You invested in speculative stocks. Nothing wrong with taking a profit, either all or some. But spec stocks are just that - speculative. You should be prepared to lose all or some of it. And they should only be part of a diversified portfolio. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 10, 2017, at 5:48 AM, robert winfield via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > /rant on > i will only comment about stocks _once_ since this is EVDL list > around 1990 i bought 100 shares of AMER for $30/share, and sold them for > $40/share, a tidy $1,000 profit!AMER changed it's name to AOL, split 128x, > topped out at $100/share.I took $1,000 profit, and missed $1,280,000 because > I was impatient over 1.2 million dollars. > I was told to buy AAPL 31 years ago but it wasn't "exciting enough" (apple)It > split 56X and would be worth, to me $8,724/share or $872,480, if i had done > so and just been patient, but i didn't > I intend to hold my Tesla stock 30 more years or my death and my children > inherit it, like I should have done AAPL, and others.I expect, but I may be > horrifically wrong and lose everything, but i doubt that, however the stock > market is merciless., Tesla vehicles and the entire Tesla ecosystem, Tesla > energy, SpaceX, hyperloop, neural link, Mars, the incipient lunar colony, all > the rest, to be worth 10-20 times as much, in the next 10-20-30 years, > electric vehicles, the entire ecosystem that will address the electric > ecosystem the planet is transisitioning to, away from fossil fuels > /rant off, back to EV's > > From: Michael Ross via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org> > Cc: Michael Ross <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:20 AM > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Go Tesla go! > > Mark is exactly right, a short is a bet that the share price will drop in > the near term. It is not a vote that Tesla will fail in the long term. > > Personally, I never buy with the thought of selling. I try to buy > enterprises that have a chance of big success in a long time frame, like 5 > to 10 years. Otherwise, I buy total market index shares. In the short term, > it is hard to be better than the market as a whole, but the long term > investor has a potential to beat the market in a longer time frame with > individual stock picks. > > I own Tesla stock, but not so much that I would lose sleep over its bad > treatment by the market. The market is generally concerned with the next > week or quarter, not 5 or 10 years. I would venture that many investors in > Tesla are willing to buy at what looks like an elevated price because they > believe in the long term prospects. Sounds like Fidelity feels this way in > the article. > > My last purchase came when Tesla committed to the Gigafactory. I consider > the battery business to be far more likely to show a profit than the auto > manufacturing business. I will buy more when I see some expansion of the > battery business. I think the short sellers are unconcerned with such long > term ideas as mega Watts of batteries for sale. > > Breaking into the car industry is a very hard thing to do. Despite share > valuation, companies like Ford and GM have incredible resources. You are > seeing established car companies moving into the EV space and they can > muster immense human can capital resources. Tesla shows the way and the -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20171010/7d3819f8/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)