Tesla: trend-following strategy vs buy & hold
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Tesla makes electric vehicles and energy-storage systems and works on autonomous driving and robotics.
Growth of 100 since 2010
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What drives Tesla
Vehicle deliveries and margins matter, but the valuation rests largely on expectations about autonomy, robotics and energy — and on sentiment around its CEO.
How a trend-following strategy handles Tesla
Tesla is one of the most volatile large stocks: huge rallies and declines of more than 60% have alternated. Volatility of this kind is where a disciplined process earns its keep.
Our Strategy Alpha applies the same simple, rules-based trend filter to every market: invested while the trend is up, in Treasury bills while it is down, checked once a month. It is not a forecast — it is a discipline that aims to keep most of the long climbs and sit out the deepest drawdowns.
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