But, when you are adopting a new strategy then you should not go using it right away. You should first test on paper trading; this way it seems you must have back up plans for your strategy so that you may not disturb your trading routines when you change your trading strategies.
Trading is one thing that we keep falling out of sometimes no matter the amount of care you implore in it, you make a single mistake and you may have big regret. Despite the paper trading which is same as practice, if we don't understand how to control our emotions, we may keep having difficulty in it. So as we are doing paper trading, we can still practice with small amount to build real trading emotions.