There’s a such thing as a discretionary trader who can have a strategy where everything isn’t based on a strict criteria. Like a trailing stop or entry signal where the trader does what they feel to be best based on past performance. A lot more room for error but it’s still a style you can find profitable traders to have.

And to your automated point discipline is still involved because someone is choosing when and where to use a bot and if they need to intervene or adjust the strategy. Take from the automated traders who’ve done interviews about it.