I have been trading for about 10 years. Mainly manually but repetitive actions I like to automate. In my experience full automation will work for a while but if the market changes it will turn against you. That's why I have concluded that a mix of automation, and human supervision, works best.

The goal of Steady Gain is to have a profit of about 1% per day with a very small drawdown. Part of the strategy is automated but all the automation is under human supervision. Only pairs with a high liquidity will be traded in order to make sure that there are always buyers and sellers available when you need to close or open positions.

The recommended minimum account size for Steady Gain is $ 2000. Smaller accounts will lead to higher drawdown but also higher profit due to the limitation of the lot size that can't be smaller than 0.01. Steady Gain uses a trade size around 0.4 lots/ 100k account balance.

http://www.myfxbook.com/members/Forexpopko/steady-gain/1880423