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So then, what is a signal to go short on TSLA? It seems like no matter how irrational TSLA gets, there is always someone like yourself with a cliche defense with the exact same logic, no offense meant to you.

By your logic, does that mean that a company can do anything crazy and insane - and it makes no sense to buy puts against TSLA...ever?

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It's a cliche because people say it often, and people say it often because it's practical advice often.

> So then, what is a signal to go short on TSLA?

> By your logic, does that mean that a company can do anything crazy and insane - and it makes no sense to buy puts against TSLA...ever?

I'm really just talking about individual investors here. If you're someone with a day job and a small pot of cash who wants to make money playing games with TSLA, you're going to have a bad day.

Don’t go short on anything. Your gains are bounded and your losses are unbounded. If you think tesla will lose, buy Ford stock or VW stock.

You can take a bounded losses (though also bounded time frame) short position via stock options. Buying a put option achieves this for example.

Sure. You can also do spreads and all kinds of awesome investment tools. But it doesn't really make sense for 99.99% of the world to mess with that.

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