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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 61.236.255 von faultcode am 13.08.19 00:01:00

Chris Bingaman

diese leichte relative Stärke (nach dem Kurssturz auf den Q2-Bericht) hat sich seit gestern in eine relative Schwäche gewandelt (im Vgl. zum NASDAQ 100):




--> einen speziellen Grund sehe ich nicht, weil auch diese Schwäche geschmeidig verläuft

--> gut, erhöhte Netto-Leerverkäufe, wie schon in der Vergangenheit (in 2019)

--> aber diese Meldung könnte ein Antreiber dazu sein:

15.8.
Why a $3 Billion Fund Is Betting on Citigroup Stock and Against Tesla
https://www.barrons.com/articles/3-billion-fund-tesla-stock-…

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Another household name, Tesla (TSLA), has led the charge in electric cars, but shareholders must contend with a capital-intensive business, shaky management, and the risk that more-affordable models will cannibalize sales of its higher-margin Model S, says Bingaman.

The real clincher, however, is a long list of luxury car makers—Audi, Jaguar, Porsche, and Volvo, among others—that are entering the EV market and have the design, engineering, and operational chops to be a real threat.

“That’s the heart of the thesis,” says Bingaman, who started shorting Tesla last year when it was in the low $300s. His read on what Tesla is really worth? “Clearly sub-$200.”...


=> Diamond Hill Long-Short Fund;A: DIAMX --> https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/diamx/quote





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[charliebraun]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 61.177.245 von faultcode am 05.08.19 15:58:01

Zitat von faultcode: ..das Diagramm daraus zum Service bei Tesla ist besser:

Das klaffende Loch in der Entwicklung Servicecenter vs. kumulierte Lieferungen ist in Wirklichkeit viel größer!
Nach Tesla-eigenen Angaben entsprechen 5 mobile Serviceeinheiten 1 Servicecenter.
Rechnet man das ein, stieg die Zahl der Servicecenter"äquivalente" lediglich von 399 auf 532 von Q1'18-Q2'19, eine Zunahme von exakt nur 33,3% während die Teslas auf der Straße um 126% zunahmen.

[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 60.868.420 von faultcode am 22.06.19 17:23:43

The shills -- Zac & Jesse Cataldo (Vater und Sohn): "Now You Know"

ist mir seinerzeit entgangen (im ganzen Verständnis), aber die Hinweise verdichten sich, daß sich Tesla (in den USA) eben doch ein (indirekt) bezahltes Ökosystem an Influencern leistet:


https://twitter.com/PlainSite/status/1161703751524085760


..und mit Link zur SEC weiter unten

Updated Investor Alert: Fraudulent Stock Promotions
March 29, 2016
https://www.investor.gov/news-alerts/investor-alerts/investo…




--> wie man sieht: aus Enron nichts gelernt. Fraudulent Stock Promotions betrifft eben nicht nur Microcaps in QE-befeuerten Märkten wie diesen

[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 61.253.163 von faultcode am 14.08.19 15:20:24

https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/11616001274270638…

[faultcode]

Bernstein: "Key Positions at TSLA with High Turnover"

https://twitter.com/TheBenSchmark/status/1161606816364683264


--> Head of Global Security mit "?" ?!?

[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 61.236.255 von faultcode am 13.08.19 00:01:00

bald könnte Schluss sein mit dieser Langeweile:

[faultcode]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 61.244.631 von faultcode am 13.08.19 18:53:37

NYT: JE + EM (2)

12.8.
The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-…

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Almost exactly a year ago, on Aug. 16, 2018, I visited Jeffrey Epstein at his cavernous Manhattan mansion.

The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute conversation was that Mr. Epstein knew an astonishing number of rich, famous and powerful people, and had photos to prove it. He also claimed to know a great deal about these people, some of it potentially damaging or embarrassing, including details about their supposed sexual proclivities and recreational drug use.

So one of my first thoughts on hearing of Mr. Epstein’s suicide was that many prominent men and at least a few women must be breathing sighs of relief that whatever Mr. Epstein knew, he has taken it with him.

During our conversation, Mr. Epstein made no secret of his own scandalous past — he’d pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting prostitution from underage girls and was a registered sex offender — and acknowledged to me that he was a pariah in polite society. At the same time, he seemed unapologetic. His very notoriety, he said, was what made so many people willing to confide in him. Everyone, he suggested, has secrets and, he added, compared with his own, they seemed innocuous. People confided in him without feeling awkward or embarrassed, he claimed.


I’d never met Mr. Epstein before. I had contacted him because my colleagues and I had heard a rumor that he was advising Tesla’s embattled chief executive, Elon Musk, who was in trouble after announcing on Twitter that he had lined up the funding to take Tesla private.

The Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation into Mr. Musk’s remarks, which moved markets but didn’t appear to have much basis in fact. There were calls for Mr. Musk to relinquish his position as Tesla’s chairman and for Tesla to recruit more independent directors. I’d heard that Mr. Epstein was compiling a list of candidates at Mr. Musk’s behest — and that Mr. Epstein had an email from Mr. Musk authorizing the search for a new chairman.


Mr. Musk and Tesla vehemently deny this. “It is incorrect to say that Epstein ever advised Elon on anything,” a spokeswoman for Mr. Musk, Keely Sulprizio, said Monday.

When I contacted Mr. Epstein, he readily agreed to an interview. The caveat was that the conversation would be “on background,” which meant I could use the information as long as I didn’t attribute it directly to him. (I consider that condition to have lapsed with his death.)

He insisted that I meet him at his house, which I’d seen referred to as the largest single-family home in Manhattan. This seems plausible: I initially walked past the building, on East 71st Street, because it looked more like an embassy or museum than a private home. Next to the imposing double doors was a polished brass plaque with the initials “J.E.” and a bell. After I rang, the door was opened by a young woman, her blond hair pulled back in a chignon, who greeted me with what sounded like an Eastern European accent.


I can’t say how old she was, but my guess would be late teens or perhaps 20. Given Mr. Epstein’s past, this struck me as far too close to the line. Why would Mr. Epstein want a reporter’s first impression to be that of a young woman opening his door?

The woman led me up a monumental staircase to a room on the second floor overlooking the Frick museum across the street. It was quiet, the lighting dim, and the air-conditioning was set very low. After a few minutes, Mr. Epstein bounded in, dressed casually in jeans and a polo shirt, shook my hand and said he was a big fan of my work. He had a big smile and warm manner. He was trim and energetic, perhaps from all the yoga he said he was practicing. He was undeniably charismatic.

Before we left the room he took me to a wall covered with framed photographs. He pointed to a full-length shot of a man in traditional Arab dress. “That’s M.B.S.,” he said, referring to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. The crown prince had visited him many times, and they spoke often, Mr. Epstein said.

He led me to a large room at the rear of the house. There was an expansive table with about 20 chairs. Mr. Epstein took a seat at the head, and I sat to his left. He had a computer, a small blackboard and a phone to his right. He said he was doing some foreign-currency trading.

Behind him was a table covered with more photographs. I noticed one of Mr. Epstein with former President Bill Clinton, and another of him with the director Woody Allen. Displaying photos of celebrities who had been caught up in sex scandals of their own also struck me as odd.

Mr. Epstein avoided specifics about his work for Tesla. He told me that he had good reason to be cryptic: Once it became public that he was advising the company, he’d have to stop doing so, because he was “radioactive.” He predicted that everyone at Tesla would deny talking to him or being his friend.

He said this was something he’d become used to, even though it didn’t stop people from visiting him, coming to his dinner parties or asking him for money. (That was why, Mr. Epstein told me without any trace of irony, he was considering becoming a minister so that his acquaintances would be confident that their conversations would be kept confidential.)

If he was reticent about Tesla, he was more at ease discussing his interest in young women. He said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. He pointed out that homosexuality had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world.

Mr. Epstein then meandered into a discussion of other prominent names in technology circles. He said people in Silicon Valley had a reputation for being geeky workaholics, but that was far from the truth: They were hedonistic and regular users of recreational drugs. He said he’d witnessed prominent tech figures taking drugs and arranging for sex (Mr. Epstein stressed that he never drank or used drugs of any kind).

I kept trying to steer the conversation back to Tesla, but Mr. Epstein remained evasive. He said he’d spoken to the Saudis about possibly investing in Tesla, but he wouldn’t provide any specifics or names. When I pressed him on the purported email from Mr. Musk, he said the email wasn’t from Mr. Musk himself, but from someone very close to him. He wouldn’t say who that person was. I asked him if that person would talk to me, and he said he’d ask. He later said the person declined; I doubt he asked.


When I later reflected on our interview, I was struck by how little information Mr. Epstein had actually provided. While I can’t say anything he said was an explicit lie, much of what he said was vague or speculative and couldn’t be proved or disproved. He did have at least some ties to Mr. Musk — a widely circulated photo shows Mr. Musk with Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s confidante and former companion, at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars party.

“Ghislaine simply inserted herself behind him in a photo he was posing for without his knowledge,” Ms. Sulprizio, the spokeswoman for Mr. Musk, said.


It seemed clear Mr. Epstein had embellished his role in the Tesla situation to enhance his own importance and gain attention — something that now seems to have been a pattern.

About a week after that interview, Mr. Epstein called and asked if I’d like to have dinner that Saturday with him and Woody Allen. I said I’d be out of town. A few weeks after that, he asked me to join him for dinner with the author Michael Wolff and Donald J. Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon. I declined. (I don’t know if these dinners actually happened. Mr. Bannon has said he didn’t attend. Mr. Wolff and a spokeswoman for Mr. Allen didn’t respond to requests for comment on Monday.)


Several months passed. Then early this year Mr. Epstein called to ask if I’d be interested in writing his biography. He sounded almost plaintive. I sensed that what he really wanted was companionship. As his biographer, I’d have no choice but to spend hours listening to his saga. Already leery of any further ties to him, I was relieved I could say that I was already busy with another book.

That was the last I heard from him. After his arrest and suicide, I’m left to wonder: What might he have told me?


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--> FC: da haben sich die beiden Richtigen, JE + EM, im Leben mal getroffen

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JE (1)

12.8.
Jeffrey Epstein allegedly boasted about advising Elon Musk in the wake of his bungled attempt to take Tesla private
https://www.businessinsider.de/jeffrey-epstein-said-he-advis…

• Jeffrey Epstein told a New York Times reporter that he had advised Tesla CEO Elon Musk during the frenetic few weeks in summer 2018 when Musk had sought to take the electric-car company private.

• According to the newspaper, Epstein had also been approached by Musk or someone close to him who sought his help to find a new chairman to replace Musk.

• The alleged anecdotes from Epstein, among others reported on Monday, add to the picture of the disgraced financier who had been held in federal lockup in New York on sex-trafficking charges until he died of an apparent suicide on Saturday.

...

[faultcode]

Cathie beim Pumpen..

..diesmal hat sie's mit der Model 3-Gross Margin: 30% noch in diesem Jahr! (von 17%) -- OK, mit "if's" dabei

"We have just done a Gross margin study.."


12.8.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/08/12/negativity-surrounding…
Negative sentiment surrounding Tesla is 'pretty unbelievable,'...
Ark Invest's Cathie Wood explains why Tesla is her number one holding.


<Alex-RT -- von alleine finde ich solche Perlen nicht..>

[xwin]

Kaparthy ?

Is Elon Wrong About LiDAR?

https://scale.com/blog/is-elon-wrong-about-lidar



...

Takeaways

While 2D annotations may look superficially accurate, they often have deeper inaccuracies hiding beneath the surface. Inaccurate data will harm the confidence of ML models whose outputs cascade down into the vehicle’s prediction and planning software. Without a breakthrough in computer vision research, it will likely be a struggle for these types of driving systems to achieve true autonomy, where vehicles must perform thousands of predictions per mile with no room for error.

However 2D annotations probably still have a place either as part of a larger sensor system or for simpler tasks such as classifying objects for basic lane-keeping/collision avoidance or highway driving.

It’s always better to have multiple sensor modalities available. One of the benefits of combining data from camera and LiDAR is that in situations when one sensor type is ‘blind’ (such as a car hidden by a traffic sign or the time it takes a camera to adjust exposure when going under a bridge) we can rely on the other sensor to fill in missing information.

At a broader level, our findings support the idea of a virtuous cycle in ML development: more robust sensors lead to much higher accuracy training data which means your perception model will perform better, which in turn may eventually lower your reliance on any one sensor type. But the inverse effect exists too: even if a safe self-driving system is theoretically possible without LiDAR, getting great training data will be much tougher with cameras alone. Barring a paradigm change in ML techniques, a high volume of mediocre training data will only take you so far. Developers who are deprived of higher quality data will face an uphill battle to train their perception systems to the level of accuracy it will take to get true autonomy safely off the ground.