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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Good. Let's keep it tumbling down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

He always knew this was going to happen anyway, that's why he artificially inflated Tesla to begin with

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Except not, cuz it's money he doesn't have to begin with. His net worth isn't a pile of money, it's a constantly fluctuating number based on what the rest of the world think the his various companies' stock is worth. Same as if you own a house and you get a new tax assessment that says it's worth $10,000 less than last year. Your bank account doesn't skrink by $10,000. The max amount you are able to get a loan for might decrease a little, but other than that it's pretty much a non-event.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

That said, he'll never go broke.

His ego may get battered, but he'll never be broke.

Unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

But he's using his stock as collateral to get bank loans so this hurts him anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

In principle that could happen, but realistically I doubt Musk is anywhere near enough in hock for market fluctuations to bother him. That would be more like a Trump thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Two months ago I didn't think the USA would want to annex Canada/Greenland. Anything is possible at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

? This isn't a "fluctuation," this is his company blatantly crashing, which does affect him, especially while the stock market also crashes. He's losing multiple billions of dollars. He had to restructure Twitter and sell it to himself. He's also a giant idiot who hung out with Epstein.

But I do think he always planned to crash Tesla because he is crashing USD to swing into BRICS currency when it's unveiled

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Tesla stock ballooned recently but it's higher right now than it was 6 months ago, so whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It made a slight recovery, but it's significantly lower than it was a year ago. It's gone significantly down since the Tesla protests started. It's not a real company, so at some point it's going to crash anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

That graph is YTD, not 12M. It's lower than it was in Jan 2025. But not Nov 2024.

TBH both of these graphs are short term, if this is a very hyped stock it's hard to say what is overvaluation or undervaluation or overcorrection, or how big or prolonged any "overshooting" might be. See where it is this time next year maybe.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

He'll always have his cheese hat though.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stop. You're giving me an erection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

You're doing better than Prince Acorn.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm giving a $15 bounty to whoever can code a website to ring a tiny bell every time this happens

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I made a super basic site to track the price difference since the page has loaded. A tiny bell rings if the price has gone down more than $2.43, but you might need to leave the page open for a day or 2 to actually see the price drop enough to ring the bell. I am using a free api to track the price, which has a limit to 30 requests per second. So if the page doesn't fully load for you, wait a few minutes and try reloading the page.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If request rates start getting problematic you could probably drastically reduce the refresh rate, seems like once per second right now which is way overkill IMO.

Also if you want to share the source I can host a mirror of it to further increase resilience to API ratelimits

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I'm just hosting it on GitHub pages. Here is the repo.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I’ll add 10¢ to the pot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Looks like polygon api can get live data 5/req a minute? https://polygon.io/pricing

I'm not super familiar with finance lingo; how is a "stock price" usually determined? ~~SMA?~~

edit: seems like "last quote" or "last trade" are probably the best for this kind of thing? https://polygon.io/docs/rest/stocks/trades-quotes/last-quote Those apis cost money, though. 😭

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Someone start the "Meh" movement:

"Make Elon Homeless".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The fact that this post has been downvoted twice clearly shows Elon has a main and a burner account like all the non billionaires

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Out of interest, how do you know if a post has been downvoted? I only see up votes? Is it a instance specific feature?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

On the default Lemmy Web UI, you can hover your mouse on the score count.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I’m on mobile and the app I use shows them, Arctic is a pretty nice little known gem!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Jerboa shows downvotes too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I can see it's on the top of the page, with the up down arrow? I'm on mobile

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There's an account setting to show them. Although on the web UI I have to move my cursor on the score to show the up/downvote numbers for posts.

(And while it could be disabled by the instance, .world has downvotes enabled)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It depends on your client/settings on mobile, but no clue on PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Nice. Musk = POS Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I really like that, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago