Mechanical or Discretional Strategy?

For me what keeps traders unprofitable is discipline, and even the brokers know this. Brokers are feeding off trader indiscipline, Prop Firms have now joined the feeding frenzy. The whole retail trading business model is designed to feed off trader indiscipline.

When you trade using your discretion, you are more prone to become indiscipline, no matter how hard you try. You can spend 30 days being a good boy and sticking to your rules then you make a $200 profit but it only takes 10 minutes of being indisciplined to lose that $200. So, the brokers wait patiently for that day to come and you return the money back to the market

Mechanical systems are much better, if you want to solve the discipline problem, but the challenge is where are you going to get the mechanical systems from? The average retail trader cannot program, cannot design software etc. so they lack the ability to build automated mechanical systems. So we are stuck here

What do you mean by mechanical system sir

With mechanical systems, most traders become lazy, seeing as it's the system telling you what to do and not the other way round, hence they place all their trust in the system even when it might misinterpret some market informations. Take for instance, most mechanical systems which are trend following systems usually fail in ranging markets