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YW Vern, any questions let me know.

It was the last good buying opportunity last week for Tesla. I told you I was looking to buy my last block but it was too high and I missed a slight drop the week before last. Well I put in my buy order in for 22.55 again and thought it would never happen but I was ready. My goodness it went all the way down to 22.00 for a couple of days and I could have bought much lower. Back up to 24.71 today and will go as before I think so I did get to buy my last block just in time this time. It hasn't been that low since last March. So I achieved my goal of the last two weeks. I now have twice the shares and am way up already again. I expect one more buying opportunity just before the Model S starts delivery since the roadsters are not being built anymore and there will be a gap in income for a month or three there when I expect consumer confidence to flag again. I know it is only one stock I am playing with and the rest of my funds etc. I don't manage as the experts at USAA are doing just fine managing those, certainly better than I would be. But I am having fun. I hope everybody else is doing as well.

Vern, If you decide to use MSE you must remove Kaspersky first and use the Kaspersky removal tool. It can be found here: http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208279463 Just print out that screen and download the kavremover.exe file and run it by double clicking on it. It should run without the part you printed out required bu have it on hane=d anyway. Never uninstall any antivirus program using windows add/remove programs. Then you download MSE from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security_essentials/default.aspx And install it only after you have removed Kaspersky. Make sure you allow it to turn on Windows firewall during install. (It will ask) CCleaner is for removing residue and doing registry cleaning. Malwarebytes is a back up manual scanner. MSE and the Windows Firewall is all you need for security. As far as a slowdown on your computer I would check add/remove programs and uninstall any and all toolbars that show up regardless of the name and that includes Yahoo toolbar, Google toolbar etc. If your Internet is the only thing slow then let me know what browser you are using IE or FF.

Phil answered and I agree. Go to their website and download the removal tool. That applies to any anti malware program.

Congrats on your new Toshiba! I strongly recommend MSE, I use it in all of my systems. I also bought and tested all the previous ones incuding AVG free and paid for, and Kaspersky Internet security as well as Norton up to my switching to MSE 2 years ago. I don't use any of them anymore, just MSE with Malwarebytes free as a back up on demand scanner. Every security program installs deep in your system and to completely remove one you need to go to the vendor, in this case Symantec, for the Norton product installed on yours, and use the vendor removal tool to remove it, they have an all in one that removes all Norton priducts since 2003. For goodness sake do not remove the programs with Windows add/remove programs! I loved Kaspersky prior to MSE, and used Norton for years before that before they too became bloatware. I use MSE as are many many others, and trust it as much as all the above and more so because it is light and quiet. Do not load AVG free on it as it is hard to remove, and really bloats up boot times and scan times. If Norton has already been installed and/or activated use the Norton removal tool here to completely remove it. Do not uninstall with windows add remove progreams. Go here, download the removal tool, then follow the directions in step 2 to run it: http://us.norton.com/support/kb/web_view.jsp?wv_type=public_web&selected_nav=&id=&entsrc=&pvid=&docurl=kb20080828154508EN_EndUserProfile_en_us Also do not have two security real time programs running at the same time. Download MSE and let Windows put it in the default Downloads folder before you remove Norton, then install MSE right after removal and reboot to reduce your exposure time.

I hope it brings a sharp drop in Tesla. I missed it for just under 23 last Thursday and it is back up to $26.31. Granted that makes all my previous buys of it at 22.55 and at 17.50 or so worth more but I really wanted to buy one more block. I know, it is strange to hear someone wanting their stock to go down. Well they should show a really bad two quarters as the last roadsters are sold and there is no product selling until the Model S comes out. I was banking on that for my last buy later later this year, or in early 2012 or later if they post a delay in the Model S, I just missed the unexpected drop to the price point I wanted last week . . . caught unawares because I am not glued to the ticker, I am long on Tesla. Once again I am no knowledgeable person at this. I just know what they are gonna do. Knew it back when everyone thought I was being too optimistic. I just got an email that they will be giving rides in the ModelS only to reservation holders at the new FRemont Ca. Factory and giving factory tours. For those that ignore anything connected with the words "Electric Car" and automatically become blind, and many do, take a look at their website and see what the future is bringing for their second successful car in production. http://www.teslamotors.com/

Well since I was asked about Tesla, it did not go down as far as it did last Friday and I am hoping it comes down in the morning. What is making them stay higher than I had hoped, for a buy of my last block is that Motley Fool did a 180 after months of bashing them out of the ignorance of the analyst there of the difference between Tesla and the rest of the electrics. He was skimming their news not reading them. Now they change to glowing reports last Friday and even more so this morning, while separately this morning Merril Lynch changed on Tesla to a buy recommend and a 34 dollar target price and then goes on to rave about Elon Musk being the new Steve Jobs. Here are three short articles about TESLA that came out this morning. I know it seems insane to hope for my own stock to go down, but it also may be my last shot at the lowest price so one more day, tomorrow, I watch and maybe I can buy happy or grudgingly a bit higher than I hoped. Buying at 24 and selling later at 34 or higher beats waiting until it hits 34 and regretting. http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2011/08/08/this-just-in-upgrades-and-downgrades.aspx http://blogs.forbes.com/ericsavitz/2011/08/08/tesla-is-elon-the-next-steve-merrill-launches-with-buy/?partner=yahootix http://seekingalpha.com/article/285641-getting-aggressive-in-a-scary-stock-market-buy-the-innovators-at-deep-discounts?source=yahoo You brought Tesla up Cindona. I am the least qualified to advise others to buy or sell, I just do what I do for me. I have only twice decided that I had to gamble in the market. Once with Apple when they announced they were going to Intel chipsets, and were at 55 a share, and I backed out because I was not a stock gambler, and this time when I learned from my Apple experience to follow my well researched years of following Tesla. I will buy one last block of Tesla but hope to get it cheaper than today. If you read the "experts" in the articles above those familiar with my posts about Tesla here since 5 years ago and more will for the first time see where the analysts finally did their homework. So wish me luck and a drop in my stocks for now. I already got my real state but only my 5 acres and house here paid for 5 years ago or so, so we have only utilities to pay and no other debt. I consider that income producing as no note or rent is going out. So our funds are doing fine, they went down some but we are still ahead there, and way ahead on our Tesla, although I hope to be at a loss for a day or two on paper to make one more buy.

Duke, Don't congratulate me. I am sick! I heard the markets went down and since it usually takes a day or two for Tesla to react strongly it dipped down to 22.83 today before I saw fit to look and it was back up. I know I should have had a standing order but I do now in case there is a Monday morning profit taking session in the mid morning. THat was my fault. But if anybody looks up Tesla (TSLA,) and checks the prices for the past year and their opening IPO public prices, you'll see that while I didn't make the killing many did, my 5-12 dollar share profits from the first buy, and 2-7 buck a share profit since I bought the second batch at 22.50 beats the heck out of bank rates. I just wish it would go down once more because I have been waiting for this and now in hindsight will buy at 22.85 if it comes back down. Accck! Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa. (No not Catholic just like the latin phrase)

Cindona, My investement funds are through USAA and they will do fine. I am tickled with Tesla, but it has not dropped far enough for me to buy my last block. We are still way ahead, and hope that it does go down to where we bought initially. My problem isn't worrying about how low it will go or getting out. My concern is judging the bottom correctly or close to buy at best advantage. And that is luck anyway. I bought my first block at 17 and change, my second block at 22.55. It closed down today at $24.75, not low enough to buy my third block but may be the lowest and I should. I have been really upset with Motley Fool giving Tesla investors grief ignorantly for the past two or three months. This morning before the crash they came out pro and did a 180 with this article: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/08/04/tesla-motors-big-surprise.aspx Now before you read that as most would, they have ignored and scanned Tesla like many others and missed what was announced last mid year when Tesla made a deal with Toyota and Daimler to supply them, and buy the Toyota excess factory in Fremont California putting a bunch of Americans back to work. Now this is important about analysts, they are as prone to be know it alls as the common investor. In this case you have to get to the second half of the article before you see their weak attempt to say that things have changed with the Totyota deal when in fact I posted here that Tesla delivereed the Toyota Rav 4 protos to Toyota last November /December, and I also posted here about Tesla buying the Fremont Plant from Toyota in a big deal in mid 2010! As well as their deal with Daimler. I am no big investor. I have only talked about investing here really twice. Once in 2005 that Apple was going to be able to run Windows when they announced they would switch to Intel chips the following year in early or mid 2006. They were 55 bucks a share! I chickened out, others may have listened to me. This time I felt the same as then but with Tesla, which I had been following since about 2003 (and I won't name the folks here that said they would never come to market etc. etc ad nauseum) I jumped in with both feet. Even today folks don't realize they brought the first production long range Hwy capable all electric to market in 2008 way ahead of the big auto makers. I still see people posting that no one is going to buy a car with 80 -100 mile range, when Tesla has 300 mile ranges, unlike the competition. Anyway, it is my understanding to never sell low, only high, and that you haven't made or lost or broke even until you sell. So today's market is when to buy in my limited understanding of how it works. I am serious too. Warren Buffet gave those as his rules for buying and selling, and that makes it good enough for me. But I am hoping Tesla goes down a bit more. I will surely buy at 22.55 or lower. I am just worried this is as far down as it is going.