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Why automate trading at all
Not because a bot is smarter than you. Because it is the same on Tuesday at three in the morning as it was on Monday at noon, and you are not.
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Not because a bot is smarter than you. Because it is the same on Tuesday at three in the morning as it was on Monday at noon, and you are not.
A bot has no intuition, no memory of yesterday's fear, and no ability to notice something you did not tell it to look at. Understanding that is how you write a good one.
Markets are the one place where a large number of automated agents already compete against each other with real money. What has happened there is worth more than most predictions.
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