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.........................................?  That must be impossible, nobody can do that, you have to learn triangle breakouts, Elliot Wave, perhaps even those famed retracement zones of that Fibo guy?    Seriously nun, what you say it completely, and utterly, the truth from all I have seen too.

Market goes up, market goes down.  You can interpret and create your own view of why and trade it based on any way you like, even develop your own system (aka Frank D), or you can try combine a heap of traditional analysis tools and find your own way to make them profitable, or you can simply jump from one method of analysis or system to another, always looking for that holy grail and simply have periods of success, but mostly just hand those hard earned $$$$ over to someone else. 

Naked, my point is only that, after being profitable on SIM, you MUST do it live which brings about a completely different set of problems (emotions), so in that aspect, they are FAR better.  Of course, if your doing SIM, making a packet, then go live and fail, you have to work out why and go back to SIM, but if your surviving live or even just loosing a little, then you should stay there and work on it in a complete and utter real-life environment.  I highly doubt most people here do many live trades a month, or even in a year.