Let’s be honest, you could pretty much throw a dart any day of the week at the StockTwits Blog Network, and end up hitting a post that is better than 99% of the other stuff out there that passes as financial blogging.  So to say these are “The Best of….” is a little disingenuous; let’s just say these are some of the posts from the last week that caught my attention and I think will interest you.

Investing in Preferred Stock ETFs: What You Need to Know  Sizemore Insights

Value Guys Give Up On Microsoft  The Reformed Broker

Want to Own Facebook Lower – Check Inside  Dragonfly Capital

Durable Goods, Household Employment and Caterpillar Value Plays

Did The Tech Bubble Burst Again?  Points and Figures

More On Luck and Gaming Company Earnings  Kid Dynamite’s World

The Platform and Destination of Stocktwits Continues to Grow… Integrating Chartly Into StockTwits  Howard Lindzon

Letters to a Young Trader  Dynamic Hedge

China Manufacturing Contracts: “Demand still remaining weak”  Osprey Flyer

What To Do When You Lose Everything Altucher Confidential

When a Put is involved, it is not always Bearish 1nvestor

Relative Strength of Cyclicals Hits 3-Year Low Crossing Wall Street

Rates drop on realization that EU situation is nowhere near solved  The Basis Point

Is Spain the Opportunity of a Lifetime…or a Wicked Value Trap? Sizemore Insights

The Beauty of Back Testing  Rogue Traderette

Gold Gearing to Breakout  Dragonfly Capital

Confidence, and Market Have No Bounce  Points and Figures

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