Yes, I trade these signals only this way. I find impossible to be fast enough after news release to buy/sell manually and somehow have no trust in autoclick services. It's another piece of software, which can fail and I bet it's usually much worse tested, than trading platform itself (which can also fail). I'm a software developer, so I know what I'm talking about. Every program has one more bug. Always And worse, it depends on external news feed, which can also fail, be too slow etc.
Whereas straddle may work and does work for some people, I personally don't like doing it myself because of high spreads and possibility that you just get filled but the price did not go enough to give you a profit. Or you got slipped. But again, some people do it and it works for them, and that's great. As long as you make money, that's all what it is all about.
But I don't agree with you that software with autoclick is a problem. I have full trust in that, and I have been trading that way for years. And guess what: I made 90 pips on NonFarm (USD/JPY) and almost 60 pips on Canadian Employment (USD/CAD), and also some very nice pips on the Australian report.
True, the signal may be wrong and it may happen once a blue moon but I also use stop loss of 30 pips....
Thanks,
Crazy Cat