I assume that not too many people are in this current Short trade because of the lack of comments.  Hopefully more then 10% have it LOL

Hopefully that's not true, but from all the feedback here over the last 2 months, it wouldn't surprise me.  

Most people have trouble following a mechanical system because emotion, when they get a bad trade, they lose confidence, then don't do the next few trades, then they finally get in again, but of course that one ends up being a losing trade, etc.  Now of course systems can fail or stop working, however too many people made that judgement call too early.

Here's a relevant example:  I know a guy who runs a very successful hedge fund with automated mechanical systems, however early on he also gave some of his clients the option to lease his systems so that they had control.  He had it setup where each client had their own remote desktop where the systems were placed, and the client could turn on and off the systems, change position size etc. 

Without fail, all of his clients who had control over the systems whether to turn them on or off all vastly under performed his systems because they constantly turned them off, turned them on, varied position sizes, etc.  Some clients actually lost money even though the systems were up about 120% in a year, it shows you how easily it is for the public to lose control of following a system.

All his clients who chose not to have control and to just be in his hedge fund where the systems were ran for them automatically, all made a lot of money.

Therefore in the end, my friend took away the option of letting some of his clients lease the systems because his clients having control over them was always negative.