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That depends on the price, most likely scenario is that I will have to down clock or turn off my older equipment while I should be able to keep all of the newer equipment running, especially if I buy into the next generation of equipment closer to the next halving.
"That depends on the price"? You don't know that, no more than any other miners (well, at least those not swapping spit with big exchange owners).
I mean what YOU yourself are doing, right now. Are you expanding? Or 'retracting'? Is downclocking what you mean by 'retracting'?
It is true that I can not know the future price or the difficulty, this is part of the risk of mining. I am holding so I am not retracting or expanding. I do not think the S7 is such a great buy, so I am holding and waiting to see if a better miner is put onto the market. If it is I will most likely buy that as soon as it is released. Otherwise I will continue to hold until the price goes up or like I said better and more competitive miners come onto the market. I am presently running the last generation of equipment, mostly S5's and SP31's.