Purely mechanical trading strategies fail because any profitable algorithm gets copied until it stops working. Instead, use mechanical signals as triggers for discretionary analysis: assess market context and liquidity, confirm the signal against current structure, then execute with conviction.
I don't believe in mechanic strategies. I don't think they, they perform well long term because if there were a mechanic strategy that performs all the time, everybody would do it because it's mechanic. Even I can just program an algorithm and it's gonna be crazy profitable. But I like to use this just a trigger of my discretionary analysis of the market. First, we identify the context, the bias, we identify the drawdown liquidity. Number 2, we confirm with the structure. And number 3, we want to get in with the impetus.
