For the first time in a very long time, actually ever, Abnormal Returns is on hiatus for the week. In the meantime I wanted to continue to provide our readers with some interesting content. To that end I asked some independent investment bloggers five questions. We will publishing the answers daily throughout the week. Please feel free to add your own answers in the comments below.
Check out the answers to our Wednesday question – If you had to put your portfolio into a blind trust who (any investor/trader/institution) would you hire to manage it?
Thursday – If you could only read one blog, not Abnormal Returns, what would it be?
Downtown Josh Brown’s The Reformed Broker just squeezed past Barry Ritholtz’s The Big Picture. Nice support also for Calculated Risk, Aleph Blog, CXOAG and Pragmatic Capitalism. In short, it looks a lot like our linkfests.
The Reformed Broker led the way with votes from: Scott Bell – I Heart Wall Street, Kid Dynamite – Kid Dynamite’s World, Jerry Khachoyan – TheArmoTrader, Phil Pearlman – Phil Pearlman, Robert Sinn – Stock Sage, Erik Swarts – Market Anthropology
The Big Picture came in a close second with votes from: Stephen Castellano – Castellano, Bill Luby – VIX and More, MacroMon – Global Macro Monitor, David Merkel – Aleph Blog, Steven Place – Investing With Options
Calculated Risk via Jeff Miller – A Dash of Insight, Barry Ritholtz –The Big Picture, Todd Sullivan – Value Plays
Aleph Blog via Tom Brakke – the research puzzle, The Analyst – Stone Street Advisors
CXO Advisory Group via Meb Faber – World Beta, Jared Woodard – Condor Options
The Kirk Report – Derek Hernquist – Derek Hernquist, Charles E. Kirk – The Kirk Report
Pragmatic Capitalism via Dynamic Hedge – Dynamic Hedge, Frank Zorrilla – ZorTrades
Alphatrends via John Lee – Charts Gone Wild
The Browser via Miguel Barbosa – Simoleon Sense
Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider via Eddy Elfeinbein – Crossing Wall Street
Credit Writedowns via Roger Nusbaum – Random Roger Blog
The Fly at ibankcoin.com – Sean McLaughlin – Chicago Sean
Financial Philosopher via David Shvartsman – Finance Trends Matter
FT Alphaville via Downtown Josh Brown – The Reformed Broker
Fund My Mutual Fund – Ivanhoff – Ivanhoff Capital
I Heart Wall Street via Zack Miller – Tradestreaming
Instapundit – Jeff Carter – Points and Figures
Felix Salmon at Reuters via Mick Weinstein –Covestor Blog
Seeking Alpha’s Market Currents via Cullen Roche – Pragmatic Capitalism
Tech Trader Daily at Barrons.com – Rob – Tech Insidr
Tomorrow we ask bloggers what they would be doing if they were not involved in the markets.