Patch, I gotta say, I'm surprised you asked
the questions you did of No_BS.
Many of us have, indeed, booked profits already on previously executed trades. And many have earned enough profit to have paid for all the shares they still own.
Why would that FACT THAT MANY OF US CAN ATTEST TO negate the presence, or absence, of NSS?
And no, we did not have to sell at the top to have booked profit.