Hello, welcome to the Friday January 18th, 2019 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

Tesla Podcast. My name is Rob Maurer. Today we are obviously

talking about the Elon email that went out to employees about layoffs and profitability

for Q4 and Q1 today. Tesla stock on the day today finished down 12.97% recording just after close now to $302.26

this compared to the NasdDAQ up 1.03 percent.

For those, again, continuing to keep track of my misguided foray into January 18th, 2019 call options, I did still have the portion that I didn't sell last week heading into today.

Of course I had the cell window open yesterday as clothes was coming and didn't end up pulling the trigger, got distracted by some other things at work,

but I don't know that I would have anyway.

But today was extremely painful to say the least, I really wish it could have waited one more day empathy obviously

for those at Tesla that have been laid off of course they're having a worse day

than I am so certainly no right to complain obviously responsible for my own trading decisions, but it's tough.

I mean I was able to close out a little bit of it early this morning, closes a little bit

towards the end of the day today, unfortunately, as the stock fell about $22 from where it was this morning and then for the

remainder I'll exercise what I can and hold that until hopefully the share price

recovers. I do think the news today was negative. I do think that we

oversold a little bit. I don't think it was as negative as a down 12% on the day

would warrant. The layoffs to me from an investor, or a business management perspective are not negative news.

We've discussed that topic back when Tesla did its previous round of layoffs in June,

where they laid off about 9% of staff.

Now they're laying off about 7% of staff here in January.

Over the last year, Tesla, despite those layoffs,

has still increased their employee count by more than 20%.

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