Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) — Technical state
As of 2026-09-16 — re-computed nightly across the coverage universe. Closelook diary readings, not advice.
14.4% below its 52-week high and under its 50-day — a textbook 10-to-20% correction.
The moving-average stack
- vs 20-day-4.4%
- vs 50-day-3.8%
- vs 200-day+2.4%
- 52-week band14.4% off the high · +25.5% off the low
- Streak3 consecutive down sessions
- 50-day crossprice crossed down through the 50-day 3 sessions ago
- Stochastic%K 11.7 · %D 19.8 · down cross
Analyst consensus (context)
Target 330 (+34.3% vs the baked price) · Buy · 84 buy / 9 hold / 1 sell. Third-party consensus, shown for context — not a Closelook view.
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FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-16
Quick answers
What is the current Closelook signal on AMZN?
In a correction — 14.4% off its high — 14.4% below its 52-week high and under its 50-day — a textbook 10-to-20% correction. As of 2026-09-16; the signal board re-computes across the coverage universe nightly. A research diary reading, not advice.
Is AMZN above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages?
As of 2026-09-16, Amazon.com Inc trades -3.8% below its 50-day and +2.4% above its 200-day average, with the 20-day -4.4% away.
How far is AMZN from its 52-week high?
14.4% below the 52-week high and 25.5% above the 52-week low, as of 2026-09-16.
What is the analyst consensus on Amazon.com Inc?
Consensus target 330 (+34.3% vs the baked price), rating Buy, with 84 buy / 9 hold / 1 sell recommendations — third-party consensus data, shown for context, not a Closelook view.
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Where AMZN appears in the diary — 15 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.
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Long reads
- Google and RSI — The Loop Nobody Has Closed
- Magnificent Seven — The Seven at the Shelf
2 · The four long trends — and the one most behind The four long trends, three years each: MSFT +59%, AMZN +97%, GOOG +152%, AAPL +72%.
- Pattern 03 — NVIDIA Strategic Authority Investment
Three rhythmic series run alongside the dated events: Hyperscaler earnings (MSFT / GOOGL / META / AMZN, quarterly) — capex disclosures set NVIDIA's tape.
101 and glossary
- Alt-Hyperscalers: Why CoreWeave, Nebius, and Lambda Labs Matter
Key Companies CRWV CoreWeave Leading alt-hyperscaler — IPO trajectory, bare-metal GPU NBIS Nebius European AI cloud — sovereignty positioning (ex-Yandex) LLABS Lambda Labs AI compute cloud — research/training focused (private) AMZN AWS…
- Cloudflare as Agentic Toll Booth: The Infrastructure Tax on Every Agent
Key Companies NET Cloudflare Toll booth positioning: Workers + R2 + Zero Trust for agents ZS Zscaler Competitor in security, but no compute/storage layer FSLY Fastly CDN competitor, but no agent runtime AMZN AWS Full stack but…
- Inference Economics: How the Training-to-Inference Shift Changes Everything
Key Companies NVDA NVIDIA Training dominant, adapting to inference GOOG Google (TPU) Custom inference ASIC — TPU v5 AMZN Amazon (Trainium) Custom inference ASIC — Trainium2 QCOM Qualcomm Edge inference — on-device AI
- The CapEx Cliff Question: When Does AI Infrastructure Spending Peak?
Key Companies ASML ★ Sentinel ASML Order book as CapEx leading indicator MSFT Microsoft Largest AI CapEx spender GOOG Google Second-largest AI CapEx AMZN Amazon AWS CapEx acceleration META Meta Reality Labs + AI CapEx
Dailies
- Fed day — relief before the decision: 10-year 4.96%, Brent under $107.63, chips reclaim $505, Nasdaq-100 above $708.69
- Rates — the 10-year hits 5.01%: Dow −0.9%, Russell −1.2%, the AI sort pauses, Oracle and Adobe hold their lines
- Brent closes above $100 for the first time since July and the 10-year hits 4.86%: Wall Street falls a third day while Cloudflare +10%, Datadog +7% and Meta +7% catch the money the chip leaders gave back
- Chips lead the market down as oil tops $105 and the 10-year hits 4.92%: Micron −4%, Intel −4%, Nvidia −2.5% — while software posts its first up day in six and Apple gains 3%
- Decision Time for the Semi Complex
How the complex got to the line NVDA Mon −2.91% — the only red mega-cap MSFT +0.84% · GOOGL +0.94% · AMZN +1.33% · META +1.66% · AAPL +0.32% DRAM (memory) 54.28 −5.89% COHR 275.49 −4.85% · LITE 830.17 −4.22% · FN 421.14 −3.56% · AMAT…
- The buyback rally fades and the 30-year pushes back to 5.25%, but crypto answers louder — Bitcoin above 75,000 toward its best week since March 2024, BITW breaks a year-long wedge, and the yen's first falsifier line goes live at 158.83
Hyperscalers Thursday: MSFT −0.65, GOOGL −1.17, AMZN −2.16, META −0.04, NVDA −0.33, AAPL −1.75.
- TSMC prints +45%, the rotation pays the whole chain — and the bond coil leaks into the referee
Software and cloud opened weak and got bought: IGV and CLOU both near +2% after being down initially, with the hyperscalers leading the operate layer — MSFT +2.0%, AMZN +1.5%.
- The advance fizzles into the stamp — Amazon +13, Apple −9, and a paradox in the breadth
AMZN trades ~267, up 13.3%, holding the entire after-hours move through the regular session — the market pays AWS's re-acceleration to 37% the way it paid Microsoft's backlog on Wednesday.
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