Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on Abnormal Returns Now and Abnormal Returns Classic for the week ended Friday, June 4th.  Where applicable the description is as it reads in the relevant linkfest:

Abnormal Returns Now:

  1. Making the case for a continuation of the secular bear market.  (WSJ also The Reformed Broker)
  2. What is the bond market signaling?  (The Macro Trader)
  3. Barry Ritholtz goes back to find a “zen philosophy of trading.”  (Big Picture)
  4. Doug Kass on the tensions between cyclical tailwinds and secular headwinds.  (TheStreet)
  5. The TED spread widens again.  (Bespoke)
  6. The S&P 500 is “extremely oversold.”  (Bespoke)
  7. BP Disaster:  What investors need to know.  (ROI)
  8. The Coppock Curve is signaling at least a plateau in the current bull market.  (Trader’s Narrative)
  9. Ten mistakes by BP (BP) a trader should never make.  (SMB Training)
  10. What should we make of the market’s tendency to reverse itself late in the day?  (Marketwatch)

Abnormal Returns Classic:

  1. The commodity death cross.  (Fundmastery Blog)
  2. Insiders are buying the dip.  (Pragmatic Capitalism)
  3. Where the market stands today, P/E-wise.  (Crossing Wall Street)
  4. Proprietary traders are exiting Wall Street for Hedgistan.  (WSJ)
  5. Pay attention to when the VIX tells you something unexpected.  (Daily Options Report)
  6. The S&P 500 is “extremely oversold.”  (Bespoke)
  7. Jeff Miller, “The European situation is going to take many months — perhaps even years — to unfold. The best thing investors can do is to understand that this is not a replay of 2008.”  (A Dash of Insight)
  8. The market is still overvalued.  (The Money Game)
  9. Secular bear markets are long, drawn out, ugly affairs.  (Trader’s Narrative)
  10. A simple, one-year look at the S&P 500.  (VIX and More)

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