I agree wholeheartedly with your holding long strategy,...

I agree wholeheartedly with your holding long strategy, especially the way NST has performed, I have held long but in a dynamic way. For example , I have 3 trading accounts, a SMSF with about 75% of the shares and a personal account for me and my wife holding the others. When I see a trading opportunity I sell 20000 from the SMSF and 10000 from each of the other accounts. At the end of Aug I sold then bought back the day before ex dividend day to also get the dividend. I then sold on 20th Sep and bought half back yesterday and will buy the rest today. My buy back savings on the way down were $1.33 / share giving me an extra $53200 to buy ~ 5000 extra shares. I'm still a long term holder but I am profiting on the share pullbacks. I'm certainly not a sophisticated investor, I identify my trades using Bollinger bands and Stochastic oscillator crossovers and if the trade goes the wrong way I get out within a couple of days. I keep an eye on it on a daily basis and its been very profitable for me, and Commsec with the number of trades I do, over the last 5 years.