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BGC Positive On Amazon Inc. (AMZN) Based On What Could Be

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Mark Melin
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As the failure of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) to do what is demanded of most corporations – deliver profits – was revealed again at its most recent earnings announcement, Wall Street took the stock to the wood shed, wiping out over $15 billion in value as the stock dropped 10 percent in the wake.  But a new report from BGC says investors who are short the stock are missing the point.

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“While the market is clearly reacting negatively to the current investment cycle, we are incrementally more positive on the direction of the company as the platform opportunity materializes,” wrote BGC’s technology analyst Colin Gillis.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.