Here are this week’s “Top 8″ Editor’s Picks from the NewsFlashr Business Blog aggregator site.

• Andrew Horowitz of the Disciplined Investor shares some thoughts on the recent market action and then takes a peek at what might be in store for the week ahead.
• From Peridot Capitalist, a lengthy post entitled “Buy and Hold Doesn’t Work if you Completely Ignore Valuation.”
  
• Rob Hanna of Quantifiable Edges reveals research insights on “Three Lower Closes – a Misunderstood Edge.”
• I always take the opportunity to highlight posts that emphasize the dangers or risks of these triple leveraged long or short ETFs, and Darwin Finance does a very good job of this while providing a list of these ETFs and recent (under)performance.
• If you ever wanted to know who the top ten creditors are to the United States, Top Foreign Stocks shares a list and provides details of the debt.
• Chris Perruna shows various graphs and demonstrates how the New Highs and New Low Index can “Pick” Market Tops and Bottoms.
  
• Robert Salomon shares three major points on whether or not Better than Expected First Quarter Earnings (which sparked the stock market rally in part) are actually an Illusion.
• The Dividend Growth Investor describes some of the differences in long-term investing in dividend-paying stocks and stock trading.