Sell a long term position when one of these is true:

• You already hit your “freedom number.” If the goal is reached and you are locking in lifestyle security, reducing risk, or shifting into more stable assets, selling can make sense.

• The fundamentals broke, not just the price. Revenue model changes, margins deteriorate, leadership issues, regulation, or the company loses its edge. If the business is no longer what you originally bought, it is not a “hold,” it is a new decision.

• They lost their moat and fell out of the top tier. If they are no longer one or two in the space, and competitors are clearly winning, that is a real reason to exit.

• Permanent capital loss risk is rising. Too much debt, weak balance sheet, dilution, shrinking market, or “hope” is the strategy.

• Risk rules were violated. If you use a stop-loss or max drawdown rule (example: 25%), you follow it. A long term timeframe is not an excuse to ignore risk management.

• Opportunity cost is too high. Even if it might recover, your money could work harder elsewhere in a stronger business or better trend.

In short: Do not sell just because you are scared or because the headlines are loud. Sell when the goal is met, the thesis changes, the moat is gone, or risk management demands it.

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They debate “top 3 long-term holdings” and then pivot into a bigger conversation about Tesla and humanoid robotics.

One side picks Amgen, Eli Lilly, and Google as a 5-year core because healthcare demand is steady, those companies “print money,” and Google adds durable tech exposure with less drawdown risk. The other side counters with Nvidia, Google, and TSM (and briefly considers Tesla as a high-upside 5-year bet).

From there, the discussion turns into a push-and-pull on Elon and Tesla’s pivot: supporters argue Tesla is really a software, robotics, and autonomy play and that Elon knows how to pick the next dominant category; skeptics argue it’s speculative, Tesla’s car business has weakened, politics could create backlash, and founders like Elon get more forgiveness (and access to capital) than most entrepreneurs.

They end by agreeing robotics is real and coming, especially for factory and repetitive work, but questioning the extreme forecasts like “hundreds of millions” of humanoid robots in the near term.

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