Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on Abnormal Returns for the week ended Saturday, May 7th, 2011. The description is as it reads in the relevant linkfest.

1. An academic study in support of a simple technical strategy.  (Empirical Finance Blog)
2. Almost nobody investing today has lived through a secular rise in interest rates.  (James Stack via Big Picture)
3. Ten summer projects to improve your trading.  (Dynamic Hedge)
4. David Merkel, “Skilled amateur investors are few.”  (Aleph Blog)
5. John Hussman’s fund dances to the beat of a “different drummer.”  (research puzzle pix)
6. Dr. Copper just gave up.  (Global Macro Monitor)
7. If you always wanted to buy gold and silver at a discount, now’s your chance.  (Kid Dynamite)
8. The ‘scuttlebutt method‘ of stock research.  (Bronte Capital)
9. A simple investment checklist.  (Bigger Capital)
10. Sometimes a great stock is hiding in plain view.  (A Dash of Insight)

We also had a handful of items on Abnormal Returns this week:

1. ARTV with Zack Miller of New Rules of Investing and Tradestreaming.  (Abnormal Returns)
2. Most of the time, like now, the market indicators send out mixed messages.  (AR Screencast)
3. Cash is trash, until it isn’t.  On the use of cash as a strategic investment option.  (AR Screencast)
4. It’s the first trading day in May, but does it mean ‘sell in May‘ as well?  (AR Screencast)
5. Baruch is back and is advocating for the return of Peter Lynch-style individual investors.  (Abnormal Returns)

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