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Elon has been playing the market, for ages. I'm surprised no one calls how he deliberately boosts then crashes stocks. He's clearly playing the shorts and benef

Elon has been playing the market, for ages. I'm surprised no one calls how he deliberately boosts then crashes stocks. He's clearly playing the shorts and benefitting from the upside of crashes somehow. Methinks he plays a bit too much like Hamlet, smoking weed on Joe Rogan, feigning bumbling benevolence on Twitter. But I think he's more like the Joker. He says, 'I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one, you know, I just do…things.' but he actually has a plan, even in these areas where he's apparently just bumbling. I am not against Elon at all, I just think it's funny how obvious it is that he's playing the market through information and his platform and nobody seems to see that.

smt88 6y ago
Thousands of tweets, reddit comments, and HN comments accused him of being a pump-and-dump artist. The problem is that he has cultivated an ecosystem of sycophants that can't imagine him doing anything wrong, and then there's just the average person who doesn't follow him closely.
- graderjs 6y ago
  Cool, thanks for that, I'm definitely not the average person, but I'd never seen people calling him that, but searching on your view found lots. Thanks! I think pump and dump is different to what I think he's doing, which is somehow playing the shorts. Like I think he's somehow benefitting from stocks as they crash, TSLA included, and I think he's deliberately crashing them somehow. I have no proof of this, and I don't really care that he does it or not. I just think it's weird people don't see it. It seems he repeated the cycle of "boost, crash" a few times and is happy to do so, with TSLA, BTC, and likely Doge and GameStonk. I'm not an expert on this just a feeling. What do you think about it? :p ;) xx
- kabes 6y ago
  Maybe the followers know he's doing a pump and dump. Know the issues with that, but don't care since they can likely make decent profit of they follow him closely and act fast in the same way he does.

smt88 6y ago

Thousands of tweets, reddit comments, and HN comments accused him of being a pump-and-dump artist. The problem is that he has cultivated an ecosystem of sycophants that can't imagine him doing anything wrong, and then there's just the average person who doesn't follow him closely.

graderjs 6y ago
Cool, thanks for that, I'm definitely not the average person, but I'd never seen people calling him that, but searching on your view found lots. Thanks! I think pump and dump is different to what I think he's doing, which is somehow playing the shorts. Like I think he's somehow benefitting from stocks as they crash, TSLA included, and I think he's deliberately crashing them somehow. I have no proof of this, and I don't really care that he does it or not. I just think it's weird people don't see it. It seems he repeated the cycle of "boost, crash" a few times and is happy to do so, with TSLA, BTC, and likely Doge and GameStonk. I'm not an expert on this just a feeling. What do you think about it? :p ;) xx
kabes 6y ago
Maybe the followers know he's doing a pump and dump. Know the issues with that, but don't care since they can likely make decent profit of they follow him closely and act fast in the same way he does.