Tesla's Stock Bump - Is the Reason Really This Simple?

Tesla Solar and Powerwall is looking like a pretty enticing deal right now, especially with my lights out at home. I am glad that Tesla stock short sellers lost money. They have feverishly been sponsoring bad news about Tesla for years now, but it can't rain every day. I do not see any benefit in short sellers negative efforts, so I hope that Tesla stock keeps going up.

Normally when you buy stock, you are investing in the company, and when the company succeeds everyone makes money, ideally. But short selling is betting against a company by borrowing stock from a stock broker and having them sell it at the current price, then when the stock price drops you rebuy the stock at the lower price and replace the borrowed stock, pocketing the difference. But with Tesla stock some people have made millions by shorting the stock and then creating negative stories on the internet that instill doubt in the company to force the stock price to fall. This is done for the sole purpose in profiting off of the loss in stock value, and it is specifically what has artificially forced Tesla stock down for so long, because speculators would post a thread talking about how Tesla owed too much money to ever make a profit, or highlight small issues, and make it seem like they are huge problems, or fake a video of someone who fell asleep with Autopilot on in a Tesla. These stories are published many times a day, and you usually repost them regularly here, and meanwhile some greedy speculator gets rich while Tesla investor's stock loses value. Happily, Shorting stock is a risky proposition because if you are betting against a company that is NOT failing, eventually the stock price will rise, and the greedy speculators have to buy the stock at the higher price to replace the borrowed stock, and take a loss on the difference. Betting AGAINST success and innovation for personal gain is exactly what we do NOT need in the world today.

Yes, they would need to make the final trade before they saw their loss, but because they borrowed the stock there is most likely a time limit on when it needs to be returned or repurchased, and if the stock price rises up further their liability and loss will increase. The Tesla stock prices were down before this, so it is unlikely that the stock broker would have allowed the borrowed stock to not be replaced if they had been borrowed earlier when the value was higher than it is now. The problem with waiting for the stock price to drop again is that it is compounding the risk, because if it goes up further the short seller will lose even more when they run out of time and need to replace the borrowed stock. With normal stock purchases the buyer cannot lose more than the purchase price of the stock, but shorting stock can potentially lose more because they have to replace the stock at whatever value that it currently is selling at, and it could rise over the original value as a difference (although that is unlikely). Hopefully these stock shorting losses will dissuade speculators from betting against Tesla in the future.