One must already be profitable before using automated trading. Auto-trading is only used to augment what you already know, picking up where you physically left off. If you're going to use Auto, you have to already have a high probability of the direction.
People have this idea that they can just buy a program and push a button, come back in a week and have money to spend.
I think of it as Auto-pilot. One can't just walk into a hanger and push a button. One has to know the weather, get the plane into to air and have some idea of the direction one wants to go.
This analogy is not perfect, but I'm sure you get the point. Yeah the technology might exist to just push a button, but for most of us the idea of auto-trading is just to assist us in not being able to trade 24/7.
... so focus on being profitable, then worry about auto-trading.