For long term buy and hold investors like myself, technical analysis means very little. You have to remember I purchased FB at $38. So whether FB double topped or not means the slightest bit of difference to me.
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I think the car market is quite fragmented. There isnāt a monopoly out there. Definitely can allow for multiple players so this is nothing to worry about.
Dangerous extrapolation. Just because the petrol car industry is fragmented doesnāt mean the future EV industry is going to be fragmented. Can you explain why the EV industry would remain fragmented? Please donāt do like some1, respond with a question 
I am clueless, btw.
You are right. It might not! But I have confidence in Tesla. Sometimes you do need blind faith 
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I think we need to ask the question āwhat about china?ā when we analyze any stock. Sometimes itās irrelevant, like Facebook. Sometimes itās critical, like Apple. It needs to be one of the vectors of investogations or else the analysis is woefully incomplete.
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China is big, but itās not the whole universe. Many things can survive and thrive without it.
Apple does not need China to succeed. It was already a successful company before it started to sell anything in China.
Friend, iPhones are assembled in China.
So what? It can always relocate that to another country.
If it is that easy, would be relocated long ago. Is not just cost of manufacturing, massive volume, large number of semi-skilled workers, supply chain and fast mobilization of large number of engineers and production workers.
It relocated its manufacturing from US to China. How hard was that?
I can forgive you, biologist.
You forgot that this biologist used to work for Apple. And I didnāt spend my time looking under the microscope over there either.
Still wuqijun is right. iPhones are assembled in China when cost is less. If another supplier, from Korea or other country, able to provide for less cost, Apple is likely to shift the vendor.
If China consumes iphones or Tesla cars, then Apple or Tesla depends on Chinaās economy.
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China is 20% of Appleās revenue. Itās the second biggest market behind the US. Where would the stock price be with 20% less revenue?
Personally, I want to eventually spend money I invest. So selling at the right point is just as important as buying at the right point. Whatās the point of saving and investing if youāre never going to spend the money?
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Thatās what I am getting at. Apple 10 years ago didnāt need the Chinese market. It was also not a 800B company. Now it does, desperately. If the X doesnāt sell well in China Apple stock price will crater.
Keep investing and never sell. If you need to use money, borrow on margin 
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China might be 20% of Appleās market, but America is an even bigger percentage of Appleās market. The European Union is also bigger than china. Which begs the question: what makes china so special? Why are you not saying the same thing about America or the EU?
The EU and US arenāt growing their middle class the way China is. China will be a much bigger market in the future. If Apple is going to keep growing, then in 10 years from now China revenue needs to top US revenue.
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Then isnāt there always India? Even bigger population than China in the future and just beginning to grow a middle class. And letās not forget about Africaā¦ 
Didnāt someone call India a poor and dirty place? India median income is about half of China median income. They are probably 10-20 years behind China, but they are growing.