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Trading strategy for when you’re up?

I have a rough idea of a strategy for what to do when a stock I hold goes down. I can dollar cost average to lower my cost basis. This strategy works as long as I have money to throw at the stock and if I assume that the stock will go up again. That’s a big assumption, I know.
What do you guys do when you hold a stock that has made gains and is up? When and how much do you sell?
For a while I thought that I should hold for a year or more to pay the lower long term tax rate but that idea seems fairly poor when the market is extremely volatile.
A strategy I have considered is to sell all my shares and then rebuy at the same level to lock in gains. I think this would lock in any profits in the near term and could enable further dollar cost averaging if the shares go down again. If the shares continue to go up then at least I still have them.
What are your thoughts? $SPDR S&P 500 ETF(SPY.US)$ $Invesco QQQ Trust(QQQ.US)$ $Tesla(TSLA.US)$ $Apple(AAPL.US)$
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