Amazon's profits

Re:Amazon's profits by nwzpaperman on Friday August 09, 2013 @12:40AM (#6183790)

You should probably buy some MSFT at the open tomorrow and fund it with a short position in AMZN. For posterity's sake, the closing price of both companies today was:

8/8/2013 AMZN: $295.74 @ $135.12 billion market cap MSFT: $32.89 @ $273.97 billion market cap

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Re:Amazon's profits by gjm11 on Friday August 09, 2013 @08:30AM (#6185185)

He thinks Microsoft is in trouble and Amazon is strong ... so you suggest he should short Amazon to buy Microsoft?

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Re:Amazon's profits by mgkimsal on Friday August 09, 2013 @02:10PM (#6187274)

Thank you - I wasn't sure what the point of that was, other than illustrating that perhaps I don't make my points clear enough. :)

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Re:Amazon's profits by nwzpaperman on Friday August 09, 2013 @04:14PM (#6188158)

I think you are a tradeable fade!

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Re:Amazon's profits by mgkimsal on Friday August 09, 2013 @05:25PM (#6188636)

I get that a lot, actually.

Still trying to figure out what it means, but thank you.

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Re:Amazon's profits by melvinmt on Friday August 09, 2013 @10:31AM (#6185865)

What is your point exactly? These numbers don't mean anything in an investment point of view. You can't compare them.

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