Let us suppose that I missed the Gold short by the robot when it issued its original signal (which is my case given that I was not a my desk that day) and I wanted to discretionary enter the DUST trade a market price today ($42.87 right now), am I not taking the same risk of a loss than current robot owners? They would stop at the same price as I if I follow the daily robot suggested stop loss should the trade go sour. So my potential loss is known and the same.
On the return side, if this is a trend that is real perhaps the returns are quite high and will be over the 3:1 expectation at the initial date.

I know I am missing something so anybody's help would be appreciated