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, August 9th, 2014. The description reads as it does in the relevant linkfest:

  1. Where do you want to be on the “dumb money” frontier?  (SSRN)
  2. How you should spend the first ten minutes of your day.  (HBR)
  3. What to expect after a sharp sell-off from 52-week highs.  (Dana Lyons)
  4. Can the “permanent portfolio” work today?  (Aleph Blog)
  5. A closer look at real world CANSLIM performance numbers.  (A Wealth of Common Sense)
  6. A look at bull markets since 1871.  (Greenbackd)
  7. Trends work until they don’t.  (Noah Smith)
  8. Great trading ideas can often be expressed in just a few sentences.  (NAS Trading)
  9. Individual investors are holding little cash at the moment.  (Short Side of Long)
  10. What happens when companies stock buying back so many shares?  (Henry Blodget)

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

  1. Listen to me talk with Howard Lindzon and Matt Hughes of Slugball fame about the art (and science) of curation.  (Soundcloud)
  2. There really has never been a better time to be an individual investor.  (Abnormal Returns)

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