Hello and welcome to the Thursday May 23rd 2019 edition of Tesla Daily on

official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Apologies for missing the last couple of days.

I have been out sick.

Not just from the podcast, but from my normal work as well.

I know a couple people tweeted that, yeah. makes sense why I was sick with Tesla stock performance over the last week.

I don't think that those are related, though I guess I cannot say for sure.

But that has definitely been rough as well. Tesla did finish up today slightly. After I think

seven days of down trading today finished up 1.43% to 195.49 compared to the NasdDAQ down 1.58% today.

It's been rough though. I mean you guys know that I use leverage and I am pretty

heavily concentrated in Tesla of course not 100% in case you are wondering I do employ a high risk in come to fruition as we've dropped 40% from the end of February to today. That means

despite this generally seeming like a pretty horrible time to sell I did have to

close out a decent size of my position and reduce leverage a little bit.

It's a bummer because you don't really truly lose until you sell and I think there's plenty of

upside for Tesla in the long term.

I wish I had better managed so that I could be accumulating here instead of selling.

But sometimes you lose, you take the loss, you learn from it,

and you move on.

I wanted to talk about it on the podcast,

because as you guys know, I think context

is extremely important, and I think it's important

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