Tesla Tumbles After Musk Tweets He Bought Dogecoin, Drags Market Lower

The benefits of having Tesla as part of the broader S&P 500: Now, all investors get to benefit from the random quirks of the world’s most unpredictable CEO (who just two years ago was accused by the SEC of securities fraud and got a wristslap for it).

Such may have been the case on Wednesday morning, when shortly after 10am, and with Bitcoin already under pressure after the morning cash open, Elon Musk decided to take to Twitter and inform the world that he had bought his toddler some Dogecoin.

Bought some Dogecoin for lil X, so he can be a toddler hodler

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 10, 2021

While unclear which tripped first, both Tesla shares and S&P 500 futures stumbled at the same time, with index futures erasing the gains for the day and with Tesla slipping as much as much at 5% to just above $800.

And while bitcoin was already weak on the day, Musk’s Tweet sent bitcoin down more than 10% pushing it to $44,000, lower by almost $4K on the session. Other cryptos all pulled back together.

We feel for the RIA’s and financial advisors that have to explain today’s dip to clients they “conservatively” put into SPY index funds in order to diversify and place a safety net under their portfolio.