Quote from kingfisher3210:
But brother, some of trades which those simple mindless set ups take, a discretionary trader with a good reading of the markets will never ever take.
Good reading of the markets is essential, paramount and imperative for consistent gains. You can employ automatic set ups with a good reading of market so as to combine discretionary and system trading.
The best traders i have met have a real good grasp of market structure collective thinking. They are tuned with the market mindset. The money flow in their account effortlessly.
They have reached the pinnacle in trading which is the intuitive trading- Using right brain intuition to work on trades. If you ask them why they took short or long, they will have hard time in giving reasons for a particular trade except saying possibly getting a feeling this trade can work.