Hello and welcome to the Saturday May 25th 2019 edition of Tesla Daily on

official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower today.

I just wanted to give a really quick update on short interest.

We have newly published information from yesterday's close.

Tesla stock on Friday did finish down 2.49% to $190.63, this compared to the NASDAQ up 0.11%.

After market closed yesterday, we did get updated short interest on Tesla.

As a reminder, there is a delay in the publishing of short interest.

We get it two times a month, and then there's about a nine to ten day delay in the publishing.

So this report is for short interest as of May 15th.

Our previous report was as of April 30th.

On April 30th, we had continued to see short interest

rising dramatically to 37.9 million shares.

That was up significantly from April 15th of 33.5 million and way up from the short interest

that we saw in February on the 15th of

February short interest was just 25 and a half million shares. So back to the

May 15th numbers then we saw short interest come in just shy of 37.6 million shares, which is the first time that

short interest has actually fallen since January. Now it wasn't a big decrease, only

about 350,000 shares, but the most interesting thing to me is that we didn't continue to see such significant

increases like we have been seeing. That does make sense though we're definitely

approaching the high end of historical short interest. It peaked at

about 39.1 million shares back in April of last year. So as you get closer to that peak it becomes

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