In OOP, you have encapsulation and information hiding. If you can get the developer to write and test the individual the parts of the strategy, perhaps you can put them together, thereby maintaining your IP. You essentially have the developer create you a toolkit of strategy functions, and you use them in your strategy.
With all the users and all the strategies undergoing rapid development, I find it unlikely that the "system" will identify and exploit them. Turning a strategy into a robot increases the chances of being spotted. I still believe that hiding in plain sight works well, even with computers monitoring what I am doing. __________________ Author - "These Seven Trading (Investing) Secrets Will Explode Your Account: All I Know About Trading (Investing) I Learned in Flight School"
Same here. Besides with today's computers, it wouldn't take long for a computer wiz to quickly work up a batch of parameters nearly the same as the best possible for whatever parameter combo is out there.