Marco Papa

What Brexit means for Tesla ($TSLA) stock

In two words: nothing good. $TSLA stock officially crossed into bearish territory on June 9, when the MACD averages crossed…

Top 8 tidbits around the Tesla-SolarCity deal

Tesla management held an investor's relations call earlier today to discuss some of the details surrounding the company's offer to…

Wall Street’s reaction to Tesla’s proposed buyout of SolarCity

Since the proposed deal of Tesla to acquire SolarCity in a stock exchange with no cash involved was announced, a…

$TSLA Stock Action Turns Bearish

It looks like the issues of the Customer Non-disclosure agreement revised at NHTSA request and the suspension / ball joint fiasco…

Looking at the Tesla ($TSLA) run post Ron Baron’s announcement

While yesterday’s news of the disclosure of Ron Baron $300 million investment was the catalyst to turn around the stock from…

Ron Baron’s $300 million stake in Tesla fuels run up in $TSLA

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock spent the four trading sessions post the annual shareholders meeting languishing in “compression”, around $220, not…

Tesla (TSLA) trading action after the annual shareholder meeting

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and CTO JB Straubel spent a freewheeling three plus hours recapping the history of Tesla Motors,…

Who Are the Top 4 Tesla (TSLA) Shareholders?

Recent articles covering the top TSLA shareholders have concentrated on their percentage of the company shares. My interest is in…

Debunking the story that Elon Musk “kept cash” from the recent stock offering

On Monday May 23, 2016, Tesla Motors e-mailed to TSLA registered investors a link to Elon Musk’s Form 4 SEC Filing,…

Tesla raises capital for Model 3: confirms sale of 6.8M shares

As expected, today Tesla announced in a press release that it raised $2 billion of common stock to accelerate the…

Tesla to sell $2 billion worth of common stock to fund Model 3

According to MarketWatch ,"Tesla Motors Inc. has filed to sell about $2 billion of common stock to grease its way to…

Goldman has upgraded Tesla, is $TSLA a buy now?

Earlier today I executed a "probing" trade by buying TSLA September $215 calls. There are a couple of reasons. First of…

Trending $TSLA: Remove the “noise”

Last week I introduced the MACD indicator. This week I will present a different way of displaying stock charts that…

Tesla stock (TSLA) one week after the Q1 2016 Report

Post Q1 Report Action The technical response of the stock market to last week's Tesla Q1 2016 report has been…

TSLA Extended Hours Action after Q1 Report & Conference Call

TSLA action on the day of the Q1 Report was effectively a wash: TSLA stock opened at 230.29 and closed…

Tesla Q1 Earnings Call: Tidbits You May Have Missed

Tesla reported Q1 financials yesterday which was unusually full of several surprises and all pretty positive for Tesla bulls. Aside…

Tesla Releases First Quarter 2016 Financial Results

This is a quick cut of the main items from the shareholder letter outlining Tesla Q1 financial results: Summary: Advancing 500,000 unit build…

Tesla Earnings: What to Expect

This is a brief update on a few things to watch in Wednesday release of quarterly results and subsequent conference call with…

What to look for in Tesla Motors Q1 Financials

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is set to announce its first quarter earnings report after market close on Wednesday, May 4, 2016.…

The Anatomy of a Tesla ($TSLA) Trader Analyst

Hi, my name is ... Marco Papa. I am a techie by trade and very much a product of the first…