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If you hope to get rich off Tesla stock over the next decade, be prepared for periods of volatility. But is it still a good investment for the long term?

Tesla has always been a volatile stock. But in the good old days of 2019, you could buy all that risk-on volatility for a relatively cheap price — relative to what Tesla has been trading at lately.

But this week, implied volatility jumped up to almost 100% before backing off on March 12, when Tesla stock rallied. Again, a vertical red line marks this potential peak in implied volatility.

Now this looks more like how an auto stock trades. Prior to 2019, Tesla was basically a rinky-dink carmaker in the high-risk part of a market in electric cars that's still extremely small.

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From that, one can see that Tesla options mostly trade with an implied volatility between about 50% and 80%. The second graph is on the lower half of the chart and is the chart of Tesla's stock price.