Seeking Alpha by Adding Beta

I have a written few blog posts about Tesla while it was still a small company with a market cap of less than $10B (unfortunately, I did not follow my own advice of owning the stock instead of or in addition to the car; as the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20). Now that Tesla is a much bigger company (with a market cap equal to or greater than all the other car companies in the world combined), it's time to take another look at the company and the stock. So here it goes. $TSLA reached a 52 week low this week despite very optimistic "pedal to the metal" projections from Elon Musk. After touching a $1 trillion valuation, it has been sliding down (call it the trillion dollar curse, similar to what Meta also experienced – but that's another blog topic) and lost over 40% in 2022. What's impacting Tesla and its stock? There are 4 "C"s which will decide what's next for the company. Competition: It used to be EV + Autonomous Driving + Cool Factor = Tesla just...

After long hiatus due to personal reasons, it's time to get back to blogging. And what better day to start than on first day after historically worst month for markets. This year was no different. Sept kept to its reputation as worst month with markets ending at lowest point for 2022 (S&P down by 25% and Nasdaq by 32%). This week saw the leaders (like Apple etc) taking the hit...that may be an indication that markets may be getting closer to bottom...now that we are in Oct which had the reputation of having worst crashes, we may get one or two big crashes...that would be clear sign of market bottom. As they say "Don't fight the Fed" - that holds true in both directions. Fed is determined to get back it's credibility and will not (and should not) pause interest rate hikes till inflation indicators show clear downward trend....It's possible that Fed may do more than needed and damage the economy at least for short run...Economists, companies and policy maker...