Manual vs Automation?

Do you think that the advent of forex robots and scripts has taken away the essence of being a trader, like thinking on the fly and actually using judgement.

There is plenty of thinking and using ones judgement involved in automated trading.
What an amazingly stupid question.

craigy,

you missed the point of the question.

i hope the boy can win, if he cant, learn me the code so i can make use of myself, dad.

i think the robots are the part of it
well if i'm great in trading and can do some programing, i'll make one to make my own trading become easily
it can be say also that my essence of trading being packaged

just a newbie thought thou

There is some validity to what you're saying.

Because I can use a calculator/computer, my arithmetic abilities have fallen by the wayside. OTOH, I can focus on doing higher level computations and models, rather than worry about the mechanics of long division, for example.

I think trading is a little like this. If I can automate away the mundane tasks, I lose some mental agility, but I gain in the sense of being about to create more sophisticated/robust/reliable models. I also gain more sleep - trading manually is a very physically and emotionally taxing routine for me - others may have a different experience.

lllol, i didnt type that. dickhead(s)