My intention has always been 100% algorithmic trading. As soon as you manually intervene, you're throwing away your backtests, which means you're throwing away your edge.
But there have been so many times since going live when I looked at an open trade in profit and thought to myself, "it's not going to get better than this, I'd sure like to close this." And it sure seems like those nagging thoughts have always been proven right.
This morning I woke up to this lovely short and the developing support was so obvious. The trade was supposed to hold for a couple more hours but I couldn't stop myself, I closed it. And it felt gooood.
So now I'm feeling like I've opened pandora's box, and before you know it I'm going to be the guy at parties sneaking off to the bathroom to yeet pips.
Do you all ever let yourselves intervene?