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It’s a personal risk tolerance question really. If you’re feeling worried about the downside, you can always sell a portion and diversify. I like to sell bits of my winners and put the proceeds into index funds.

make your own research and decide at what price a currently depressed stock with higher-than-spot-price intrinsic value reaches fair value. Then, either sell it or sell ATM CCs on it.

One of the lessons I learned over the years is you can sell half or a quarter. Or a handful of shares.

Never the wrong move to sell some to lock in gains. What will you do with the proceeds? Selling part and riding with the rest is the way I'd do it.

Take out your cost let the profit ride. If you’re not too sure about the company take out some profit too and let 5-8k ride.

I'm in the same boat with MU. I'm up nearly $30k in profit since I bought in and don't know if I should cut and go or hold on to it for a little longer.

Well first of all don't go off of "feels"

Riding on your post, I also have seen a lot of people saying that you should sell your losses from time to time to balance your profit taxes. I'm from Portugal so I know that this may not be the same from country to country but in any case should this be done? Is it something that should be applied to every investor? I used to only buy VWCE but i've since started buying and selling some single company stocks.

Let profit ride on those DELL shares my man! To the moon

I generally sell a stock if I believe it won't continue growing faster than the general market.

Ultimately you need to evaluate your conviction on the company. Ultimately it sounds like this isn't something that's such a large portion of your holdings and thus a "concentrated position", so you should evaluate it like any other stock.

* If you believe in MRVL and you think it's going to keep going up, let it ride.
* If you think it's going to keep going up but you're looking for an exit strategy, you may want to consider covered calls. You'll get some premium and can set a strike price where you'd be happy locking in the gains. The premium is a \[small\] downside hedge and if it moves up you can capture some gains too if it's called away.
* If you're ambivalent but think there might still be some run, sell a portion of the holdings to trim the position and lock in gains (I mean, you've already doubled so if you sell half the rest is pure profit), while letting the rest ride.
* If you think the trade is played out, liquidate and pay the tax man.

And yes, if you've owned it more than one year, you'd owe long term federal capital gains tax and then whatever your state expects you to pay (here in CA it's taxed as ordinary income) on the profit.

> maybe I should lock in some gains selling half of it or so and let the other half ride?

Why though?

Why did you buy this stock in the first place? Was it a random purchase and now you don't know what to do with it?

If you have a conviction in it, stick with it - all of it. If you no longer believe in the future of this company, why hold onto any of it?

Pretty much every time I sell the stock ends up going up higher, sometimes much higher. I've sold at the top less than a handful of times, I've missed out on profits more times than I can count.

A basic way to approach it is decide what % of your portfolio you want a stock to take up long term. If it grows strongly it will naturally become a higher % and eclipse that threshold. You can trim it back to your target % which allows you to take profits while maintaining your position if you believe in the stock long term.

If you no longer believe and feel overvalued, you sell. If you do, you hold. I've sold so many winner prematurely.

If you are holding stocks you feel are near highs or overpriced, sell your cost basis and throw that into index funds. That leaves the remaining portion as pure profit, while your initial investment sits in index funds long term and grows.

Don't unless you somehow wound with a position in a company you no longer have long-term faith in for some reasons. For instance you realize the CEO is a far-right exremist ruining his brand.

yeah you’d be looking at long-term capital gains (plus state tax depending where you live), but the bigger question isn’t taxes it’s risk management, and trimming a position after it doubles is a pretty common move so you’re not overexposed while still letting some ride if it keeps running