One of the most important disciplines in investing is constantly updating the best argument against your own position.
Not dismissing it. Not looking for reasons it’s wrong. Actually understanding it well enough to decide how much conviction your own thesis deserves.
$AMZN has badly lagged the market and many other AI names recently, and I think the counter thesis has evolved.
The biggest new threat is agentic commerce. Meta’s Muse and other AI agents could increasingly control product discovery and purchasing, potentially weakening Amazon’s retail and advertising moat.
That’s real. But I think it plays out slowly, Amazon will adapt through its own agents, including Project Moonraker, or partnerships that are seeking access into and monetization from the world’s largest ecommerce platform, and in an agent-first world the upside to AWS, Trainium, Graviton and Amazon’s broader AI infrastructure business could ultimately more than offset the advertising dollars at risk.
Then there’s Anthropic. A recent barrage of negative headlines around slowing growth and Meta/Microsoft reducing Claude usage has spilled over into $AMZN sentiment.
Again, worth taking seriously. But much of that narrative looks incomplete. Anthropic’s revenue growth remains extraordinary, its IPO appears very much alive, and its massive long term commitment to AWS remains intact. We are still early and one can make a strong argument that AWS has more to gain from an open source first AI world than it would lose from Anthropic’s and OAI’s relative weakness, if it even plays out that way.
And now sharply higher diesel prices create another near term headwind to Amazon’s shipping margins. That’s real too. But either fuel prices normalize or as with past cost inflation Amazon eventually passes much of the higher cost through while continuing to drive down fulfillment costs.
I don’t need the counter thesis to be wrong to own $AMZN.
I just need the bull thesis to be more right.
AI might be the most overthought trade in the world right now.
You can go so deep on models, chips, agents, capex, tokens and benchmarks that eventually your head is just spinning.
Sometimes the best analysis is being able to filter through everything that matters less to identify what matters most.
AI lets us solve problems we couldn’t solve before or couldn’t solve economically while doing more with less.
That grows the economic pie.
We’ve seen this movie before with every major technology shift.
This one is just bigger.
@GAndersonTrades The yield will go higher and so will the stock this 2026 market will go down in the history, Vix is 15.52 the moment it touches 16 stay ready Things will go parabolic like March 29.