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Comment by throwaway5752

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/key-statistics?p=TSLA

A bit down the page on the right, you'll see "Shares Short", "Short Ratio", "Short % of Float", and "Shares Short (prior month)".

What that is telling you is that almost $10B of Tesla stock has been borrowed and sold (with the profit coming from buying in the future at lower prices, ie, betting against TSLA). That is increased about 7% from the prior month, and would take almost 5 entire days of average trading volume to close out all the short positions.

This is a high level of betting against a stock by any standard.

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