There's been a steady trickle of bank failures this year -- the FDIC shut down another 5 last night ( http://www.thestreet.c... ). With that in mind, I've been looking for some potential short candidates among banks, and California's TriCo Bancshares has come up on my radar screen. May short this next week.

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