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by KerrAvon 1520 days ago
It will tank the price because other people will sell if he does. I don't know if his threat is strictly illegal, but the feds have to reign in some of this behavior sooner or later or all of the Musk day-trader fanboys will think they too can get away with it. A few people can't, but the SEC can't deal with thousands of Musk's fanboys skirting the law.
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How is it skirting the law to trade based on what he publicly says?
88% of Twitter is owned by institutional investors. They will instantly protect the stock price.