My best performing strategy has been a simple buy-and-hold approach in stocks. After spending a year developing a trading bot using machine learning, I have come to appreciate how extraordinarily difficult it is to build a consistently profitable automated trading system. The process involves countless potential points of failure from data pipeline integrity and feature engineering to avoiding look-ahead bias. Even when backtests appear strong, live trading reveals significant gaps, requiring months of paper trading to resolve issues. My most effective algorithm is an LGBM model that only marginally covers subscription costs. What systematic alternatives exist for generating consistent income without the complexity of building custom algorithms?

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