Hey redduke, i don't know why people is sticking to the $300 number, most of you probably missed the part where i choose the option "I am willing to pay higher rates for the most experienced freelancers" at first i published this job with $2500+ budget and i wasn't sure i will get value for my money as i have no idea who am i hiring as it is a shoot in the dark. i received purposeless from people with no experience so i decided to post it in parts (the current job is not even 10% of the big project) i want to make sure i get the right guy first before i'm splashing. BTW $300 is an annual salary in some places around the world and i'm not expecting engineer from Google to do the job
If he has programming knowledge + market knowledge then 300$ is probably what he makes just from passive investing in lets say a week. USA salaries are around 120k$ annual, Israel salaries are around 90k$ annual, Europe a bit less but still in that zone. people won't look at it seriously for 300$ they may not even read the ad EDIT: I am talking about programmers
$300 isn't an annual salary anywhere in the world, even the poorest of the poor Central African Republic does around $350. Not sure how many programmers there are over there when people can barely afford to eat. On top of that you assume guys without shoes or even a roof on their house would know how to code IB API. That's called "optimism", right?
This project sounds like pattern smasher which was a commercial software package now abandoned to the dark web.
I hope you realize that $2,500 will not get you too far as well. If by adding "+" you mean 10-15K, this is a bit more realistic. Then again, I have no idea what you want to do (EMA cross over will be very cheap to code ). My advice however would be to partner with someone. You would need to convince them that what ever you have in mind is worth their time. Another advice, do not just code IB API, try to use neutral platform, so if you ever decide to switch brokers you would not need to rewrite code. I personally code all my algos in NinjaTrader (IB is one of many brokers they support). They have a section on their website where reputable developers offer their services. Good luck.
RedDuke thanks for the advice's, i'm not a big NinjaTrader fun and anyway they all use C# so if one day i need to immigrate then it won't be a huge task. i tried to partner with someone in my country but couldn't find anyone so far and a foreign partner seems complicated. like i said in previous post, i prefer to start very small, to see if there is customers for the service and try to raise money for it. some sort of a prototype
Baron, What's your policy on these vendors (or wannabe vendors) coming onto your website and using it to conduct commercial business?
where do you see commercial business exactly? seems like minority of the users here are green with envy and frustrated for some reason...
Sounds to me you want to spend as little as possible to find and test a guy out before committing more money. Not unreasonable imo. My limited experience with upwork has been that people want a very well defined projects. Something they've done before, so not a lot of new development for them. My suggestion would be to decide how much total you are willing to spend and attract a few people by that higher number. Then just structure the deal so that you can back out if expectations are not met. Btw, you have not mentioned the timeline. Some people may be interested in the project if it doesn't eat all of their time. Good luck.