u/Juicy-J23

The biggest downfall from what I see is not the strategy but peoples emotions and mistakes caused by them.

I'm just getting into trading futures, I've done research on a few strategies, coded them, optimized them and back tested them. I will be automating them for my paper trading account to see how it goes live.

After all this would it be a bad idea to automate live trades with real money? What should I be looking out for other than keeping an eye on it? How long would you paper trade it until you trust it to run live?

Does anyone with significant dividend payments take a month or maybe quarterly dividend in cash and use it to pay things off quicker, say a mortgage?

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Is that a bigger benefit than letting it drip? From what I understand, making a single extra mortgage payment per year can reduce your payments by like 7 years or something.