Sep. 16 at 5:45 PM
$TSLA On Sept 12, 2025, Elon Musk quietly bought
$1B worth of TSLA—2.57M shares via trust, split into 25 tranches. No volume spike. No public notice. On Sept 15, the Form 4 dropped. TSLA surged ~7%, netting Musk ~
$66M in unrealized gains. That same day, Musk posted on X: “Up
$69 to ~
$420 as foretold in the prophecy”—after the move, not before.
The board floated a
$975B pay package, and Musk hyped robotaxis and humanoid bots. It was a coordinated pump—for his benefit and insider positioning. Retail traders who bought after the hype? They paid the premium. No edge. No advantage. IPO standards demand full disclosure. That obligation should continue as long as a company trades. Execs must declare trades before execution, and brokerages must disclose them in real time.
The SEC allows this latency. That’s the real violation. Time for reform. Time for real-time transparency. (
$TSLY and
$CRSH)