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    Posted on November 29th, 2007 cwmoore No comments

    I have been jumping between Yacht World and E*Trade all night.  I am trying to decide what to do with applying a “stop loss” sell of a certain stock.  Last week it was up to 63 and now it bouncing around 56.50.  I have put two days of $55/share stop loss.  Had it gone up today I was going to put a trailing stop on that little puppy of $1.  Now I am not too sure what to do so I guess I will let it open and see what happens.  If it goes to $56.50 I am going to sell.  I do not have too much faith in the economy and it is an election year coming up too.

    As far as Yacht World, I am looking for a Catalina >35 that has all roller furling, including the main, that leads to the cockpit.  My Young Sun is OK but I am up and down like a yo-yo going forward and then back, forward and back.  By the end of the day I am tired of running – especially on days when you are moving up and down 8′ or so – back and forth.

    I also want an easy in – easy out boat that you can actually back up in the direction you want to go.  The YS is great on the ocean where you go straight for thousands of miles but lets face it, on the Great Lakes it is mostly day sailing in 10 kts or less.