Comment by zerotolerance

It's generally difficult to do. The problem is you have no idea when the collapse in value will happen, or even if it will.

A lot of the companies I'd have bet against in the past, like AOL, sold for huge sums of money, and the purchasing company ended up regretting their decision. The actual AOL stock never collapsed.

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - John Maynard Keynes

Enron was going up for years and years before the fraud could not be hidden anymore.

A short Tesla position is correct. The question is at what expiration date ?

When it peaks like the beginning of this month or late last year, I prefer to write naked calls. (Don't try this at home.)

Why would shorting TSLA make him lots of money if he is correct?

If he's correct, the fraud is working. He hasn't staked out a position on what might stop it and when.

The market can remain fraudulent longer than you can stay solvent.

Often the difficult thing isn't predicting "this bubble will collapse eventually"; it's predicting the _date_ of the collapse. You really need both, to short.

This is always a shit argument.

Timing the market is incredibly hard. Investors can be extremely irrational.

Haven't we learned anything with the GameStop bullshit from a few years ago?