Dabbling in the stock market

[lemur]

Your approach seems to be to ignore backtesting and trade systems with real money, presumeably until they stop 'working'. I'm sure you realise there's a one in two chance that any system will record a profitable first trade no matter how daft it is. Without backtesting properly how do you have any confidence that a system has an edge and that any success you may have had isn't just luck?

Zephyro. My sense is you fall into the trap of getting trapped in an analytical framework like somebody who obsesses about the angle of his golf swing rather than getting the ball in the hole.

I make money trading and I don't do it on a lucky dip basis.