I will stay in paper/sim trading until I am ready to go live. I have two algos that is making money for the year. But my main focus is manual discretionary trading. I have not loss money trading yet.
As for me, I believe I am close to live consistently profitable trading. I still have some proving and work to do...
You are a fool for believing that. The problem is, you have been developing your system over how ever many years, based on the market action you have observed. That is going to change so fast, and catch you off-guard so quickly, that you will be scrambling to figure out what went wrong. And you will quickly find that it is not that you were wrong, but that the market f**ed you at the drive-thru.
Want proof? Trade right now, live. Stop waiting for the most violent times in the market during Q4. Trade it RIGHT NOW!