{"id":654826,"date":"2010-02-04T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-to-lose-50-of-your-money-in-15-minutes-betting-on-amazon-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-04T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:57:00","slug":"how-to-lose-50-of-your-money-in-15-minutes-betting-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654826","title":{"rendered":"How To Lose 50% Of Your Money In 15 Minutes Betting On Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/747a6c798cd9894915f6a300\/jeffbezos-screaming-tbi.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"jeffbezos screaming tbi\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a strange world we live in.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon reported at the close of market trading that its fourth-quarter profits soared 71%, Within minutes, its shares plummeted in after hours trading.<\/p>\n<p>By 4:12 p.m., Amazon shares had dropped nearly 7% to $116.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon shares are especially subject to huge swings because its revenue growth can be so difficult to predict. It has a large short interest that makes Amazon, which has a $54 billion cap value, a favorite among day traders, who like to bet on the shares&rsquo; sudden movements&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/deals\/2010\/01\/28\/how-to-lose-50-of-your-money-in-15-minutes-betting-on-amazon\/\">Keep reading at WSJ &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-to-lose-50-of-your-money-in-15-minutes-betting-on-amazon-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbiresearch.com\/e-reader-competition-unlikely-to-materially-impact-overall-amazon-revenue-2010-2\">Kindle&#8217;s Market Share Losses Shouldn&#8217;t Ding Amazon&#8217;s Revenue Much, But Analysts Are Still Way Too Optimistic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-caves-will-raise-ebook-prices-for-macmillan-2010-1\">Amazon Caves, Will Raise eBook Prices For Macmillan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-apple-vs-amazon-on-ipad-launch-day-2010-1\">CHART OF THE DAY: Amazon&#8217;s Stock Wins Day One Of The iPad Onslaught<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/YbEj26_SGso\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a strange world we live in. Amazon reported at the close of market trading that its fourth-quarter profits soared 71%, Within minutes, its shares plummeted in after hours trading. By 4:12 p.m., Amazon shares had dropped nearly 7% to $116. Amazon shares are especially subject to huge swings because its revenue growth can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KlI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}