Fully automated futures systems still need human risk limits

Automation can remove hesitation, but it can also repeat a bad assumption faster than a manual trader. Before trusting a futures bot, I would want clear limits for max daily loss, position size, allowed sessions, news filters, and emergency shutdown. A backtest is only the first layer. The live question is whether the system behaves well when fills, slippage, and volatility stop looking like the test sample.

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