The whack-jobs are back!  Tesla shares exploded to 162 on Tuesday for a nearly 20% gain. After that kind of performance, who even remembers why the stock got pounded down to 116 in November?  Bulls should be careful just the same, since all it would take for some crook to manipulate this stock into a steep dive is a YouTube video of flames shooting out from under some Tesla hood. It’s been a while since that has happened, and that could explain why DaBoyz decided it was time to goose the stock. Notice, however,  that the short squeeze, vicious as it was, failed to propel TSLA much past the midpoint pivot at 160.95. The actual high occurred $1.05 above the resistance, but that’s not quite enough of an overshoot for us to assume that a run-up to its ‘D’ sibling at 205.79 is a done deal.  However, if the stock were to close for two consecutive days above 160.95, I’d infer that a cruise to the higher number is no worse than an even-odds bet. _______ UPDATE (February 10):  The stocks deft handlers — racketeers and erstwhile child molesters with Ivy League credentials — have jacked up the stock by $14 today on who-cares-what-news, punching it to $189 on an opening-bar short-squeeze.  The so-far high at 199.30 leaves little ground to be covered to achieve the 205.79 target flagged here nearly a month ago, when the stock was trading nearly $40 lower.  One thing’s for certain:  When DaSleazeballs have found the optimal price at which to dump stock into the eager hands of widows, pensioners and orphans, we can expect news of yet another flaming Tesla to trigger a precipitous dive and a new cycle of accumulation.