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I too used to be that aggressive about automated trading, when I started, but the market humbled me.
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I am sorry if my message sounded aggressive it was not my intention. I don't want to defend automated trading (I myself never traded automtically these last 2 years), I was just saying that if people follow ACCURATELY a strategy it should be programable.
But maybe the point is just not to follow exactly the strategy....
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I then understood what was the difference between me and the guy who I was in touch with that had great success on trading pivots. I knew why he wasn't entering trades that I did enter and which turned into losses. I knew why sometimes when the MAs told him it's ok to trade, he didn't trade.
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That is a very good example of what I said about not following EXACTLY a strategy. You will not follow your strategy because you "feel" something is wrong. I qualified it as feeling because it seems it is based on "non-quantifiable factors".
(for the example of the doctor, as you say the experimented one is considering more factors, so its not only feeling it's facts. His "book" is only bigger than the book of the young one, and it's strategy of checking the patient is different, so I think it doesn't really fit with the trading case you mentioned)
So, my only point is that in many books (I don't say that the books have to be followed) the master traders say that they follow scrupulously their strategy without any exception because if you don't apply all the time your strategy you will only apply it at bad times.
But you say (and i don't say it's wrong, now I am careful with you!) that an experienced trader doesn't always follow its strategy because of it's experience.
So, what should we do: follow or follow with exceptions?