I'll be watching NOK pretty close as it's seemed to have run out of gas itself too... could be a good idea to sell at $40 and move on... Once it gets there, I'll watch and see where it goes.

Here's option #5 that I've taken and I've lost 4 times so far... I'm hoping for the January effect to bring me back to around even. I thought DD had rebounded well off of their 52 week lows... they did a bit, but they haven't turned around completely... let's see what happens in the next couple of weeks.

I'm putting a 7% Trailing Stop on VIP also... just to protect my gains... though I don't see it being used now... I still believe that there's a lot of gas left in this stock. Still, I'll keep my eyes open.

Finally, in case you're going somewhere soon... Malta and Cyprus are now on the Euro, which will make little difference in the Euro Monitary Zone's GDP and in their overall Euro value, IMHO. There could be a little bump.... which will help all Euro based stocks (England and Norway are not among those on the Euro, FYI). It's also interesting to note that Venezuela is going to issue new a new currency. This currency will eliminate a few decimal places (instead of thousands of Bolivars, the highest denomination will be 100 Bolivars). This is supposed to help control a very high inflation rate of 20% in 07. We'll see what happens in the coming year...

 All the best for 2008 for everyone!