Amazon: A Prime Trade, Not A Prime Investment (Technical Analysis)

Summary:

  • Amazon’s short-term technical outlook is strong, with bullish signals from chart patterns, moving averages, and indicators, making it a buy for traders.
  • Intermediate-term analysis shows mixed signals with some negative divergences, suggesting caution but overall resilience in the stock’s performance.
  • The long-term outlook is uncertain due to Amazon breaking below a long-term uptrend, despite positive moving averages and some bullish indicators.
  • Strong earnings and modest undervaluation based on P/E and P/S ratios make Amazon a prime trading opportunity, but only a hold for long-term investors, as monthly technical analysis shows uncertainty.

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Thesis

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock has recently made all-time highs, but is the stock ready to continue to surge higher? From my technical analysis below, I determine that the short term is the strongest for Amazon, as the


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