I started in Guangzhou in 1993 with Japanese red bean futures, then moved on to forex, Hang Seng Index, silver, gold, crude oil, and now I'm trading BTC contracts. In my 30+ years in the industry, I've only ever seen two geniuses make money through manual trading (recently heard one of them has passed away). As for the rest, forget about making money—100% ended up with liquidation. Of course, when I traded manually, I ended up liquidated too!