A speaker reflects that humans are emotional and cannot trade like machines without being affected. They argue that trading strategies must align with a trader's personality and comfort level — if a strategy's win/loss distribution causes discomfort, the trader should avoid it or invest effort to become comfortable. The speaker prefers strategies they can manage without emotional distress.
We are not machines. I'm a very emotional person, like and I don't like things when they are too intense and then get out of line. It has an impact on my daily life and I don't want that. So yes, if you're a machine you can trade whatever you want because it doesn't touch you. But once you trade a strategy and it has a return distribution of winning and losing trade which is not in favor of your personality, it touches you, then you can make a decision. You can take the energy or take the effort to be comfortable with this or you don't. And I didn't want to. I don't want to look at my portfolio and feel uncomfort. I just want to know, okay, these are strategies I'm comfortable with. I can manage them because I don't trade them the optimization trades, but I can manage it. I can manage the process. It.
