I'm not implying anything. I stated outright that he was a contender. But I did not say that the Iranian president is an "ayatollah in waiting" role. That's all in your head. Just about everyone knows that the ayatollah is the supreme leader, I don't know you are pretending that this is some great revelation. I'm just not dumb enough to pretend that that somehow makes the president's death a "nothing burger". You seem to have a very simplistic view of the world.

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Brother if you put in s&p you'd have a million. You have traded for 10 years and are up 2k. You proved to yourself over the past 7 years that just like everyone else, are not a very good trader. So let it ride in the s&p

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Seriously, what are YOU talking about? Using your example, it is not the "State court's" fault that you have to fulfill your obligations. But they are the people that will FORCE you to fulfill your obligations if you refuse to go through with the transaction. How are you idiotically contradicting yourself by saying "I wasn't paying much attention but I didn't think he'd end up actually buying it" when your entire point is that he had to buy it, even without the courts getting involved? You have very little grasp of the facts and it's fucking exhausting trying to explain all of this to you. Elon DID fight the case. If you have any idea how litigation works, there's a BUNCH of work involved until the actual court date. A Delaware judge was already appointed and she was heavily invested in the process. Yes, there was a binding contract, but he hired one of the best law firms in the States, and came up with a number of arguments as to why he didn't have to buy the company. He said that there was a Material Adverse Effect justifying a break from the contract. There were also issues about whether the debt financing would go through. The stock market didn't believe the transaction would go through, and Twitter stock was trading at a 15-50% discount before the deal closed. Do you understand how big of a gap that is? How NOT obvious the deal was to everyone? Even you said yourself, that "I wasn't paying much attention but I didn't think he'd end up actually buying it." Elon and a bunch of people thought he had a way out. He pursued that way out, but decided against it right before the court date because Twitter was threatening him with discovery and a bunch of ugly facts would have come up. He'd have to hand over all of his conversation records, and that may have been worse than having to pay $40 BN. Please, you yourself said that you weren't paying much attention. And as an investor and ex-M&A lawyer who was very heavily invested in this case, I'd recommend you to just maybe stop talking about things you don't really understand, instead of trying to win the argument by trying to compare an M&A document to your fucking house purchase agreement. There are more than a few "binding" M&A contracts that go astray and it's a joke you're trying to say it was obvious Elon had to buy Twitter when even some of the most brightest investors in Wall Street refused to wager on the "obviously binding" transaction. And again, no a fucking inanimate signature doesn't force anyone to do anything, unless you're writing a novel.

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Elon is very much afraid. He went to court, because he didn't want to buy twitter.

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I think Tesla is very far away from very cheap. Even if a couple of biggies dump Tesla, I don’t see anything more than a 20% correction.

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I know nothing about finance or money but I can see that either way he wins, this whole move has 'confident asshole' written all over it. Either investors panic and give him what he wants or they sell his stock and he can buy it back very cheap. That's my humble guess.

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we are the real sims **2016**: Musk claims Tesla is close to achieving full autonomy, stock price increases by 10% to $220. **2017**: Musk tweets that Tesla's autonomous technology is "almost ready," stock price jumps another 12% to $250. **2018**: Musk announces the "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) feature, claiming it will be available by the end of the year, stock price surges 15% to $285. **2019**: Musk delays FSD release, citing regulatory hurdles, stock price corrects by 10% to $255. **2020**: Musk claims FSD is "just around the corner," stock price increases by 8% to $275. **2021**: Musk announces the "Cybertruck," a futuristic pickup truck, stock price jumps 12% to $305. **2022**: Musk tweets that Tesla is "very close" to achieving Level 5 autonomy, stock price increases by 10% to $335. **2024**… Find the pattern Maybe: Tesla Unveils Advanced AI-Powered Robotaxi, Stock Price Jumps 12% OR Tesla's Autonomous Technology Faces Regulatory Setback, Stock Price Drops 5%

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That seems to be what the majority of ppl are drinking now, even at SBUX. I think the days of the true coffee coinsure is over, or at very least cut back to local high quality stores. The market is so much bigger now for cold brews, frappes, and all the other toothache drinks. Which makes me think places like this could do well. But I have seen a lot of ppl on reddit talking about it for a few months now, which makes me think it is not going anywhere.

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Not necessarily. The most intuitive way to think of theta is the loss of time value as an option approaches expiration. Implied volatility affects time value as well. If IV increases, time value increases, and vice versa. The easiest time to notice this is when earnings are released. You lose a huge amount of time value because IV drops once earnings are announced, compared with the general rule that time value slowly erodes (at an increasing rate) as you approach expiration.    Technically the risk free rate plays a role too (if the risk free rate drops, call options lose time value because when you buy a call option a portion of the time value is effectively paying to borrow the strike price at the risk free rate), but the affect is so negligible it’s not worth considering. Edit: to answer you question of when exactly it occurs, it is constant. But it’s not linear. Very little is lost during midday as stocks rarely move at these times. Most of it is lost overnight, as stocks are likely to gap up or down at market open. So if you hold a call option over night, you are paying for the potential of a big move in the morning. 

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People are still confused about this? He was forced to buy it. He sued to block the deal and threatened Twitter, but gave up right before the trial started, because discovery would’ve been very embarrassing for him. And every lawyer was likely telling him that he had no chance of winning. The Merger Agreement he agreed to was rock solid. “Oct. 28 – Musk closes a deal to acquire Twitter on the final day before the Delaware Chancery court trial would have moved forward.” Source: [https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/timeline-elon-musks-tumultuous-twitter-acquisition-attempt/story?id=86611191](https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/timeline-elon-musks-tumultuous-twitter-acquisition-attempt/story?id=86611191) He did (effectively forced to) shoot himself in the foot. But he very much regretted it. And Tesla is a much bigger position for him. He won’t leave.

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