I respect your investment approach

and I believe it has been well tested. It usually has low beta (very likely low taxes). On the other hand, both trendspike and texastrader are following a high alpha way. It could be high beta from time to time, but not necessary though. There is no point to decide which way is better, either short or long term. More than often, all kinds of methologies can work out. The differences are the execution and stick to it, which is quite challenging from my own experience.