Cryptohopper vs manual trading, six months of comparison
Honest findings:
The bot won on consistency. It executed the strategy without the emotional overrides that hurt my manual trading. No panic sells, no FOMO buys, no skipped entries because I was busy.
Manual trading won on adaptability. When market conditions changed significantly the bot kept running the same strategy while I adjusted. The bot needed manual parameter updates to stay calibrated.
The hybrid approach I ended up with: bot handles systematic execution of core strategies, manual trading for opportunistic positions where adaptability matters more than consistency.
Are you running bots alongside manual trading or have you gone fully automated?