I posted it because there's strong interest in Tesla and Musk on HN. Are all the positive stories only posted because someone is trying to increase the value of their holdings? It was in the news. I posted it. I don't have a dog in the fight.

It's not scaremongering exactly, just a normal bump in the road for a publicly traded company, particularly early on. Tesla still has to prove itself and it faces tremendous resistance from the incumbents (read: every other car manufacturer out there, except maybe Toyota, but that's my personal opinion).

More likely it's just bad timing. This week we have a shutdown of the US gov't, and there's a video of a Tesla car on fire. Combine these with one analysts pessimism and it's easy to see why the stock would fall.

Remember Peter Lynch's advice from "One Up on Wall Street" - if the price drops but the fundamentals are still good, hang on or buy more.