Hello and welcome to the Thursday January 10th 2019 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

Tesla Podcast. My name is Rob Mower. Today we are talking

about updated short interest for Tesla stock as well as some news on Tesla's autopilot's

Summon feature. Tesla stock on the day day finishing up 1.90% to $ 344.97,

this compared to the NASDAQ up 0.42%.

For those of you keeping track, I still do hold all of my January option positions, so I'll keep

you guys updated as we head into the expiration for those next week.

Staying on the stock for a second, we do have updated short

interest numbers that came out today after market close. He's our further

reporting date of December 31st, 2018. So as of the end of the year, Tesla had 25.6 million shares sold short.

This continues the decline that we've seen in short interest by about 1.1 million shares

since the last reporting date of December 14th.

In fact, this is the fifth consecutive period

that we have seen in short interest fall

in every reporting date since October 15th,

which was the last period prior to the Q3 earnings report.

We've been keeping a really close eye on the short interest because as we've been talking about since that

Q3 report, my belief is that that represented a fundamental shift in

Tesla's business and the type of investors that it can attract for both the long and short

side.

As a reminder from our previous conversations on short interest, when

Tesla first reported Q3 earnings in that next reporting period, short interest

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