Active trading on average performs worse than passive, buy-and-hold. But you often hear success stories from active traders, who should be accounted to for by survivor bias, and especially from brokers! who earn commission from every trade. Intuitively, almost every trader will claim he can beat the average.

If NaPoleonX can combine passive investing with infrequent trades to avoid the biggest losses and lock in the highest gains, their bots could become the ideal investors. (Until more advanced bots recognize their patterns and use those against them, that is )