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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: EVBigMacMeal ✸  😊 😞
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Subject: OT short TSLA, long BABA
Date: 07/10/23 6:35 PM
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Just for fun, I'm giving very serious thought to purchasing out of the money long dated puts on Tesla? Paired with long, dated at the money call options on Alibaba.

Alibaba at six times free cash flow seems outrageously cheap. Tesla at 80 times earnings or whatever the hell it is, seems outrageously overvalued for a capital intensive business with relentless competition and vapourware that appears to be utterly worthless.

There I've said it, I realise this is not in keeping with sound investing principles as advocated by Mr Buffett. However, I have rarely seen these kind of extremes and I have a strong sense that this market is going to take a dive over the next 2 to 3 years and Tesla may be the poster boy.

I realise this is speculation on my part, and I'm therefore only allocating a tiny fraction of my net worth to it. I just don't want to miss it.
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