Real-World Trading: The Debit Spread, Part III (Optionetics.com via Yahoo! Finance) - This past week saw the markets rise nicely with the S&P 500 ( SPX ) up 3.10 percent. As a result, our mock trade on the S&P SPDRs ( SPY ) saw some gains. Last week, we discussed opening a mock trade on the SPY using a bull call spread. This strategy benefits from upward movement in the stock, while lowering risk and limiting profits. A bull call spread is set up by buying a call and selling a ...

Optical Illusions, "Oil Shocks," and China's Headache (Kitco.com) - March 9th, marked the one-year anniversary of the elusive bottom of the most brutal bear market since the 1930’s. At the time, job losses were running in excess of 700,000 /month, and fear was rife that the US-banking system was on the verge of being nationalized.

The Adjudicator verdict: NRL R1 (FOXSPORTS.com.au) - Foxsports.com.au users have welcome The Adjudicator back with open arms. After some dubious tips from the punters, here is his final verdict on round one of the NRL.

The Adjudicator verdict: NRL R1 (FOXSPORTS.com.au) - Foxsports.com.au users have welcomed The Adjudicator back with open arms. After some dubious tips from the punters, here is his final verdict on round one of the NRL.

Whale and dolphin strandings might not be related, biologists say (Island Packet) - If you see a stranded marine mammal on the beach, don't touch it. Call the Marine Mammal Strand

Population, 1: Elsie Eiler is the only resident in northeast Nebraska town (Grand Island Independent) - MONOWI — The founding fathers must have chuckled at the impossibility of the job when they etched it into the Constitution: Count every man, woman and child along every back road and big-city avenue in the entire country.

Greece says G20 to review financial speculation (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Greece, pressing for curbs on financial speculation it blames for worsening the country's debt crisis, said on Tuesday the idea would be examined by the Group of 20 leading powers at their next summit.

The Coming Financial Time Bomb (The Motley Fool) - The truth about the credit crisis.

Updated AMS Recommendations for Lightning Safety - 2002 (WRBL Columbus) - Lightning kills more people each year on average than hurricanes and tornadoes combined. When corrected for underreporting, there are about 100 lightning fatalities annually in the United States (Cherington et al., 1999).

Whiskey Flat Fishing (Kern Valley Sun) - Lincoln Blanco It’s that time of year again folks. The smell of tri-tip in the air, hundreds of people and vendors in the streets, and people partying all night long. Yup, Whiskey Flats is here! And in honor of all the festivities, I feel it’s only right to talk about how fishing was during the time of Whiskey Flat, 1860. I also spent a good part of my week, hitting the campaign trail, catching ...