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      The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

      The stock hit $123 on Friday. It’s still got a $1.6T market cap. I have no idea where they got that headline from.

  • NM_Gringo@lemmy.world
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    In a way SpaceX did me a favor. I dumped my NASDAQ composite fund before they started carrying SpaceX. It’s been on a downward trend ever since.

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          It moves when other buy and sell yes, but think about elon holding the stock. He “lost billions” but no money moved. So in this case the money never existed.

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            There is two truths to this: not 100% of the company exchanged hands. The part that hasn’t changed hands only lost perceived value, no money has moved. The part that is exchanging hands is real people losing and winning real money.

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            If you can use it as collateral, then it exists just as much as a house or property does.

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              The stock exists yes, but the money didn’t exist. It only exists one you loan out then money is “created” though fractional lending. No elon created trillions of cash, not hoarded.

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            So much of this is blogger brain, with people hearing rumors based on clickbait headlines, and having no idea how the money moved around.

            The major index that bought into SpaceX on IPO day was the NASDAQ-100. S&P and DOW indexes have not yet included it.

            While US ETFs currently own around $16 billion worth of the stock across 179 ETF products, that’s around 1% of the total market cap of the firm. The single largest shareholder - at around 44% of the market cap - is Elon himself. Another 20-odd% is owned by various private equity funds that are a whose-who of the modern tech sector - Google, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz - along with your standard assortment of Wall Street banks - Baillie Gifford, Baron Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, and Valor Equity Partners.

            Nobody has actually cashed out yet, in any meaningful capacity. But because the stock slipped off it’s IPO high, we’re getting a bunch of screaming know-nothings who insist they’ve all been robbed.

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        It does exist. People used it to buy overvalued stock and people who knew how this was going to go got their money. The money is real, it just changed hands.

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    No shit. A valution of 100x more than yearly revenue (never mind profits) should never have existed in the first place, and was most certainly a pump and dump.

    Anyone who actually thought the stock price was going up from there was delusional.

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      And how SpaceX got into the NASDAQ is very corrupt. They fast tracked SpaceX’s IPO by breaking their own rules but still applied the same old rules to any companies applying for IPO after SpaceX. The folks In NASDAQ must have gotten under the table financial incentive from Musk.

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    It didn’t vanish. The early investors got their money and the naive buyers left holding their empty bags.
    This is what they call exit liquidity.

    Exit liquidity refers to investors who buy assets at inflated prices, enabling earlier investors to sell at a profit.
    These later investors often incur losses as asset values decline.

    It is very common in crypto and in volatile tech stocks.

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        Or it could find a support level. Who knows? Musk may be worthless, but the company isn’t. There is some stable valuation. Panic selling is a buying opportunity — assuming you like gambling and want to invest in that asshole’s companies.

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          considering Musk’s lockup period is the last (and largest) to end, my $ would be on it pumping before then

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    It’s a GOOD thing Illegal Immigrant Elon Musk FORCED YOU to Invest in this Company with your Retirement Accounts!

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      A very interesting point.

      Your retirement account has to follow some rules, for example to buy large ETFs. Large ETFs have to follow stock indexes. Stock indexes have to include “big” companies.

      So when a big AND inflated company comes along, makes it into the index, and then deflates, you all are screwed automatically and by all the rules.

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        To prevent this, there were rules in place that stipulated that a reasonable time had to pass for a new company to enter the index after IPO. Strangely, they scrapped that rule just before this one…

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    Typical of a lot of stock IPO. People just gonna do pump and dump at the beginning, whether they recover from this later is the challenge. It’s the reason why i don’t look at IPO anymore, i’m not as fast nor as rich as those career trader so it’s high chance for me to lose money.