1/

What I expect for TSLA next week:

🟢 Bullish scenario: if there's a significant index buying shortfall as the numbers below suggest, then a post-inclusion rally might begin on Monday.
🔴 Bearish scenario: if that's wrong then @garyblack00's 10-20% pullback is possible too.
2/

The bearish scenario is weakened by these facts:

Any short term hedge funds driving a 10-20% correction had:

✅ 47m buy liquidity in AH to sell @ ~$680
✅ 69m liquidity to sell @ $695 on the close

Why didn't they sell? 🤔
3/

There's two main explanations:

✅ either hedge funds are confident about higher TSLA prices next week
✅ or the HF-selloff hypothesis was false to begin with, as explained by former large hedge fund quantitative equities and derivatives trader below.

4/

Here's further explanation about why most large hedge funds were not trading TSLA substantially this year, and why they likely didn't substantially buy into the S&P 500 inclusion event either.

5/

If that is true, then $8t active funds benchmarked to the S&P 500 - who have a large aggregate shortfall of TSLA shares - were big participants in the S&P 500 inclusion event and took liquidity away from passive index funds.

This might also explain the failed closing cross.
6/

The bearish scenario is strengthened by the fact how easily market participants swung TSLA down by -7% before swinging it back up +10% to the +6% $695 close.

Active funds, with TSLA now in their benchmark index officially, might absorb such swings & discounts in the future.
7/

The bullish scenario is strengthened by the fact that historically many large S&P 500 inclusions were followed by post-inclusion rallies:

✅ 1999: YHOO +35% rally
✅ 2013: FB +6% rally
✅ 2018: TWTR +17% rally
✅ 2020: ETSY +35% rally
8/

Macro effects will loom large and can be bullish or bearish factors - but let's remember one important thing:

From Monday TSLA is among the top 10 biggest constituents of the S&P 500, and is part of the biggest "macro" index!

Congratulations to every Tesla investor!

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More from @truth_tesla

19 Dec
The TSLA failed-cross plot thickens: 80% of AH volume, or about 40M was sold at $695.

The tape actually shows many 999,999 share orders coming through @ $695. Presumably OTC, where a short seller was willing to go short?

I think only ~7M shares traded after hour under $680...
I.e. only about 69m shares worth of shareholders were willing to sell to index funds in the closing cross, and a large short seller sold them ~40m shares after-hours for $695.

This explains the sharp AH "spikes" to $695 visible in charts that many commented on.
Here's a finer grained view of the market anomaly: lots of huge orders with hundreds of thousands of shares slipping up to 695 & filling there.

I presume these were the indexers buying OTC/dark, while the entity 'painting' the price moved liquidity back to $680 quickly.
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19 Dec
1/

Here's my estimates of maximum index fund TSLA buying so far:

❌ before the close: almost none, due to tracking risks
✅ at the close: maximum 69.3m shares
✅ after hours: maximum 47.1m shares

Total: an upper bound of 116.1m TSLA shares, a 13.6m shares shortfall.
2/

In reality probably quite a few of the buyers on the close were not passive index funds:

❌ shorts covering or getting covered
❌ active funds that didn't want to stay TSLA-short against their benchmark & wanted to track TSLA at exactly the closing price
❌ options writers
3/

So the 13.6m shortfall of indexing shares is likely substantially higher.

Monday TSLA trading will IMO be determined by market participants thinking these through, and by continued index fund accumulation.

But macro might interfere, and so might market shenanigans. 🤠
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19 Dec
@garyblack00 1/

Gary, I don't have the investigatory tools to answer your questions about last Friday's disorderly closing cross definitely.

A potential explanation is that indexers wanted to avoid a close above $700 and abused the 10% circuit breaker rule.

@garyblack00 2/

There was a 15m shares shortfall of indexing shares, as indicated in the closing cross indicator.

But whoever was accumulating for big indexers, might also have written $700 calls to finance it.
@garyblack00 3/

At around 3:20, seeing the lack of shares, the big index accumulator started flooding the TSLA market with sell requests, overwhelming demand & triggering stop losses of retail & other investors.

The sell tick below alone was over 400,000 TSLA shares.
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18 Dec
I expect next Monday to be crazy: passive index funds only managed to buy ~70m out of the ~130m TSLA shares required, despite paying an all-time-high $695 price for 70m shares (!).

They'll still have to accumulate another 50m shares. (!)
Assuming I understood the market mechanics outlined by @TeslaPodcast in yesterday's video correctly, that almost all index funds would buy on the close, the minimize tracking errors.
BTW., @SEC_Enforcement should urgently look into the shameful market manipulation that occurred shortly before the closing cross: when big market participants pushed the price down below $630, to trigger stops and to use delta hedging to provide them shares...

TSLA closed @ $695
Read 4 tweets
18 Dec
Should a TSLA index squeeze materialize today, here's a key level to watch:

$𝟕𝟐𝟏.𝟒𝟗

This is the +10% fast-rise first level circuit breaker for TSLA, when trading would be halted for 5 minutes.
This is +10% above yesterday's close, $655.90. TSLA has to rise to this level within 5 minutes to hit the circuit breaker.

If it doesn't, the starting point of the limit gets reset to the lowest value in the last 5 minutes window.

(If I understood the rules correctly.)
Disclaimer: obviously this might not happen, +10% days for TSLA are very rare historically, and it's a big stock now.
Read 4 tweets
17 Dec
1/

It's a popular myth that index funds have time to buy TSLA shares.

But the S&P 500 index starts tracking TSLA on Monday, at Friday's closing price.

This strongly incentivizes indexers to buy 1.5% TSLA by the close Friday 12/18.

Yesterday big index funds reported 0% TSLA...
2/

While it's technically true that index funds could have started buying TSLA on Wednesday already, they didn't, due to the big risk of "tracking errors".

Index funds is judged by their tracking accuracy & by their management fees.
3/

TSLA enters the S&P 500 out of the blue, at a huge 150 basis points weight worth $80b, 130m shares.

Yesterday index funds were still 150 bps away from their target allocation.
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