We are as humans essentially products of our hardware - that is an insight that I've taken with me into the trading side.
People hate to loose more than they love to win.
Negatively correlated assets tend to work in harmony in a way that people are generally not used to seeing.
The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.