Manual trading - advantages:
1. Full control over trades
— You decide when to enter and exit, rather than relying on an algorithm.
— You can quickly adapt to unexpected news (e.g., Israel/Iran or a tweet from Trump/Elon Musk).
2. Flexibility and adaptability
— You can change the strategy on the fly depending on market conditions.
— Suitable for unconventional situations (e.g., market panic or a sharp pump).
3. Fewer technical risks
— No dependence on APIs, bugs in the code, or server failures.
— No need to understand programming or set up a bot.
4. Development of trading skills
— Teaches to analyze charts, understand market psychology.
— Experience in manual trading helps to better feel the market, even if you later switch to bots.
5. Suitable for complex strategies
— Some approaches (e.g., trading on news or insider information) are difficult to automate, although services of this format are already emerging.
— You can use subjective assessment (e.g., "overbought" based on feelings).
Disadvantages of manual trading (for balance)
❌ Emotions (fear, greed) can spoil trades and affect your psyche later.
❌ You need to constantly monitor the market – there is no passive income.
❌ Human factor: fatigue, missing entry points, errors in manual calculations.
Conclusion: Manual trading is better suited for those who want to deeply understand the market and are willing to dedicate time to analysis. Bots are for systematic and disciplined strategies, for those who did not enter the market for just one day.