Everything has its market value, all it takes to find it out is to put your system on the market and set a price that you would then adjust accordingly to the demand or you can keep it fixed if you do not care about liquidity...
ok let's disagree. sizing timing exits - all mean nothing if you've misidentified the environment. You just lose slower . I spend my days with people who obsessively try to refine my "ideas" inot systems and the try to protect them. I find that amusing since I happy to shaer the basic logic with anyone. Perhaps we are simply misunderstanding the thread. If you rephrase it by saying - will going public with your trade set-ups ruin them? Then I still have to agree with Random - no cause nothing is secret - even if you toiled 10 years and think it is. The wheel was invented long ago.
So what is your point? To simply stop trying to improve your method and arbitrarily accept someone else's mediocrity? Everyone may know the broad strokes as it relates to the markets, but the devil is in the details. I think it is rather presumptuous to think that being involved in the markets for some years puts you in a position of knowing all there is to know and to conclude that there is no point in trying to come up with something better. It sounds like an excuse to stop working on improvement.
Okay, one reason going public with a system won't ruin the system is because there is no guarantee that enough people will even bother using it. Hypothetical question: If someone went public with the exact same system you use and enough traders used the system, would it affect you negatively or positively?
Hmm. Was that a jab? If so, then let us be clear that you did not misspell the word so much as you used the wrong one entirely - they are not even pronounced the same way. If it wasn't a jab, then please disregard this post.