>Am I allowed to short TSLA or does that automatically mean I'm "trying to cash in on the failure of Tesla"? Anybody is allowed to short TSLA, and yes, if you

>Am I allowed to short TSLA or does that automatically mean I'm "trying to cash in on the failure of Tesla"? Anybody is allowed to short TSLA, and yes, if you short them you want the value of the company to drop and you're trying to cash in on that. TSLA should continue growing if it's a successful company. I'm not aware of companies that lose stock value year after year and are considered successful. >This kind of thing doesn't give me confidence that Musk will respect differing opinions as the owner of Twitter. I don't think Musk's goal with the Twitter buyout is to respect opinions. He's buying Twitter so disrespectful opinions won't be taken down. Now if he starts banning things he personally disagrees with, like the famous plane account, I'll turn on him and call him a bad guy. But I'm not going to speculate nefarious reasons he's buying Twitter because I have no reason to believe he'll do anything other than what he said he'll do.