You can, but really should you bother? There are funds which are done with automated trading, they're not the sort of thing you'll see on TV but they are about. I've had one for over ten years and it has returned about 15% pa since then. In the early days it was over 20% but the system started to lose its edge and 2008 killed it, it has been coming back, but has a ways to go.
This type of approach is far better than trying to build your own, unless, 'your own' has an edge you have come up with. I stopped when I realised I had no edge, no unique method or insight.
I still believe you could still develop a neat system that deprioritised the entry signal - and focussed just on letting winners run and cutting losses. That requires a very low cost transaction model however.
This type of approach is far better than trying to build your own, unless, 'your own' has an edge you have come up with. I stopped when I realised I had no edge, no unique method or insight.
I still believe you could still develop a neat system that deprioritised the entry signal - and focussed just on letting winners run and cutting losses. That requires a very low cost transaction model however.