It's Thursday, January 30th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill with me in studio.

The Fearless, Abby Mallin.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

We've got, we've got a couple of the fangstocks. We've got a couple of the fang stocks. We've got Facebook, we got Microsoft.

We're going to start with Tesla though because shares of Tesla up 10 percent.

Fourth quarter profits and revenue came even higher than expected.

How much of this is short selling?

I know that there is some level of short selling.

Why someone would short Tesla is beyond me, but how much of what we're seeing

today is short sellers saying I'm out.

Yeah, so what you're mentioning there is that short squeeze, right?

Someone shorted this.

The stock has gone up significantly and now they're like oh no

got to get out got to cut my losses here I agree with you I'm not quite sure why

anyone would choose to short the stock we've seen sort of a history of being, I would say, almost irrational.

I don't think the stock trades in a predictable manner relative to performance indications

leading to stock price movements. But I think in this case we're

really seeing Tesla hit this key inflection point, so earnings positive

consistently and also cash low positive. earnings positive

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