Thinking and Linking on a Saturday Morning

* Why dividends matter; what hedge funds really provide; and other important market themes from Abnormal Returns;

* My open letter to Edenbridge;

* Which banks are in trouble; questioning the market bottom; and more good link updates from Trader Mike;

* Kirk tracks stocks in play each morning;

* Chris Perruna reviews Brian Shannon's text on technical analysis across multiple timeframes;

* Thanks to an alert reader, who passed along this article on the brain as a muscle;

* What happens after a drop following a bounce from Quantifiable Edges;

* Jeff Miller links the Best of A Dash;

* Declan posts an interesting trading strategy;

* Nice to be one of the top three. I think. Even nicer for a Duke grad to be compared to Coach K, even if it's a bit over the top. Here's an interesting trading post from SMB.
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