Thanks for your replies guys. Some have made me laugh, like Shaun's selections for Race 3 which came in in the order he rated them. ************!

I guess I tend to get bogged down in volume and detail because I can be very predantic at times and want to see the bigger picture in case I miss out on something off to the side.

I would be happy to only bet on a few races a day or even a few a week if I knew they would overral return a regular profit.

At the moment I am testing about 20 systems all based on my own theories and on things I have picked up on this site (yes I have been backreading about 20 pages a day, and no I have not found the system you are referring to as just about every 10th page has something new that I end up testing).

I am a destination guy not a journey guy. If I don't think something is worthwhile doing it then I am not going to invest my time and effort finding out. Thats probably why I dropped the electric guitar at age 20 - if I can't be sure I'll be good, then why bother. Life is way too short and I have so many things competing for my time and effort.

I was hoping crunching some numbers over time (something I am very good at) would reveal some sort of strategy to follow which would return a little profit, but alas, nothing has jumped out as yet.

Okay I will not buy a system. I will continue trolling through the hundreds of pages of this forum and continue to take the myriads of data into excel each day and see what else I can find.

I guess it boils down to 1 question - IS IT POSSIBLE?

I hear from lots on this forum that are claiming they don't make profits and yet I would consider them more likely than me to do so - so am I kidding myself?