Creating a Trading System

Wot now ? Still following me around ?

Interesting article. Contrary to other comments here I found that the author's vested interests were not overtly pushed at all. Rated 8. Liked the following quote:
"In my opinion, one shouldn’t regard the market as something driven by a horde of losers and affording those who are smart enough opportunities for profiting from human weaknesses (it’s not a secret that any market profit is somebody else’s loss). Rather, from the philosophical point of view, any market seems to be none other than a natural niche in which the fittest one survives."

Yes, exactly, precisely so.

I think the author could have discussed backtesting methodologies, the importance of using lagging, coincident, and leading indicators. Moreover, I think he should have talked about using different timeframes to validate trends and signals. It's nice to hear that we should 'trade our money and not the market.' But I didn't see any concrete ideas on how to make money with our money. For all that, I enjoyed reading the article.

Cant help commenting even if the post is ages old. This has got absolutely nothing to do with systems development - not even a rookie will do that. If you want to burn your $$ in buying expensive software and play with (of all things) done-to-death indicators thinking that you will arrive at a trading system, God save you.