I learned/was taught technical analysis and charting and so have always been used to making trades the manual way. I've looked into automating this a couple of times but as I read more into each automated solution I come across I end up finding issues that people have turned up through their own testing. It seems a lot of these bots don't quite yet have the AI smarts we are hoping for to allow for full automation. I guess if they really did work we'd all be using them.