A list of what’s got our attention today:

• Dr. Brett Steenbarger asks, “What if stop losses consistently minimize the profit potential of promising trade setups?” Diagnosis and prescription offered. Ouch.

• “How to put information behind your trades” – another article from the Doctor that describes extra information he uses beyond the usual charting applications – all in the service of enhanced decision support and better trades.

• For those of you in Atlanta next week for Mel Raiman’s Precision Trading System and interested in getting together for a drink, email david “at” Trade-Ideas.com.

• TickerSense says bloggers have refused to become bullish even as the S&P approaches multi-year highs.

• Scan of the week: Stocks Near their Bollinger Bands. Interesting names on the list: BBY, CTX, IBKC, LSI, and COMS

• MaoXian singles out SAC’s edge in the markets in an interesting WSJ article about the billionaire hedge fund manager. Watch out if he ever gets a hold of The Odds Maker …