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, July 26th, 2014. The description reads as it does in the relevant linkfest:

  1. Three reasons why it is a great time to be an investor.  (Jonathan Clements)
  2. How to reduce portfolio risk without going to cash.  (Pension Partners)
  3. Why the narrative about emerging markets is like to shift.  (The Irrelevant Investor)
  4. Jeremy Grantham is looking for an M&A led market blow off.  (The Reformed Broker)
  5. How to hack air travel.  (Medium via kottke)
  6. As the market has risen bulls have headed for the door.  (Bespoke)
  7. Why you should try and automate your investing as much as possible.  (Patrick O’Shaughnessy)
  8. A look at some really long term sector charts.  (Humble Student)
  9. A deep dive into a model that helps explain gold prices.  (Crossing Wall Street)
  10. How experts get better: they tune out the inessential.  (TraderFeed)

Here is what else you may have missed on the site this week:

  1. An excerpt on bond ETFs from William Bernstein’s Rational Expectations: Asset Allocation for Investing Adults.  (Abnormal Returns)
  2. Six Essential Principles from Pragmatic Capitalism by Cullen Roche.  (Abnormal Returns)

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