Buddy, honestly, no one on this board should care about another's personal strategy, including how "long" their "long" position really is. It really shouldn't be anyone's business but your own, and you should do only what your gut tells you, no one else. Some of us choose to be long (such as me, since early 2011) and are in no hurry whatsoever, just pick up on the dips, and are along for the long haul with no specific time-line on selling (especially if they end of doing dividends down the road as Bill mentioned in an interview). Others have other reasons to sell earlier with shorter time frames. The bottom line is that it shouldn't be anyone's decision or concern besides your own...