“If you want to learn to trade, you gotta trade.”
So here’s a stock that’s “at the gate”, meaning, per Quill’s Simon Sez method, there’s been a confirmed ‘Buy’ signal.
The stock is TSLA, a company I actually know nothing about, despite the fact it’s frequently in the news. So the next thing a prudent trader would do --and I do mean ‘trader’, not ‘investor’-- is pull its funnymentals to see how it’s making its money, if any.
Everyone will have their own method of a vetting a stock tip (which is all that a "Buy’ signal is, no matter how it was obtained). But here’s how I do it. I go to Simply Wall Street (requires a subscription) and see what they say. Here’s a quick summary.
Three things are obvious, even from just the picture. (1) The company is healthy and profitable. (2) Its future is forecasted to be good. (3) The stock isn’t cheap.
Were I an “investor”, # 3 would matter, and I wouldn’t buy the stock. But this intended to be a trade that might last no more than a day or two. So I don’t care about its very sucky valuation metrics, such as an obscene PE of 51.7x compared to an estimated ‘fair price’ PE of 35x and an industry average of 10.9x.
The reason why I do worry about #1 and #2 is that I need others to want to buy the stock, and they aren’t going to be doing so if the business is financially compromised or if it forecasted to have poor prospects.
OTOH, the current price of TSLA is $183. Three months ago it was trading for $300, and a year ago, $350. So, clearly, the stock is being dumped, with a bottom likely still a lot further down. So, this is NOT a stock to ‘buy and own’. It’s a possible ‘trade’. Nothing more.
Due your Due Diligence.