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Re:Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20% by fbreton on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:40AM (#20533538)
They would pay a premium to avoid uncertainty, so they wouldn't accept that offer either. The uncertainty is the same whether you sell or buy the flips. I don't know you, but I guess you wouldn't pay $499K for a $1M/$0 flip, and you wouldn't sell such a flip for $499K either. This is the same phenomenon on a much smaller scale.
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Re:Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20% by HugThem on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:01AM (#20533610) 

    I guess you wouldn't pay $499K for a $1M/$0 flip
No. But the discussion here is about shares. And they are not $499k a piece.

We are discussing if the share price of a company that publishes numbers in line with expectations should go up.

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Re:Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20% by kgwgk on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:42PM (#20536114)
What do you mean by “expectations”? If Amazon trades a $2000, is the expectation that it will stay at $2000 forever? Or is the expectation that will go up because it will surpass expectations?

If by expectations we mean the numbers published by sell-side analysts they may or may not be close to the actual market expectations.

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