Yes, I know. I was just underscoring that fact. Reminded me of my brother, always coming around wanting me to code something for him. And it was always: "This is so simple. Nothing to it. Just basic stuff. You could probably do it in less than an hour." Yeah, right.
That statement is close to "This won't take long. This will be easy." lol What trading platform do you want to run this thing on?
Do you have the data? What is the data size? If "unconventional" number crunching is needed send me a PM.
Yeah, reminds me of the time someone approached me about doing a competing "program" to PokerParty. Thought they could just hire some "programmers" from the "net" to do it for them. I tried to explain to explain the architectural requirements, ( Server-client, scalability, performance, redundancy, transaction roll backs, etc.) but they just got mad and said I was being "negative". The OP should just get TS and try to automate it if is 'SO simple". EL is, well, an easy language .