Damm what a great idea!! Get people to pay you to see if their systems works after you give them your system. The assurance of their confidentiality is silly....basically their only business is testing systems so they have no motivation to copy and use your system for their own purposes. Anyone who has ever worked in IT knows that programmers will do as they please regardless of what the web site says. I used to work in bank consulting and when more than one programmer got fired and we cleaned out his desk we found the complete financial records on CD of hundreds of thousands of client bank customers that the guy wasn't authorized to even access, yet less make a copy of. So I hereby offer to undercut Market Testing Wizards. I'll test your system for free and let you know if it's any good. Just send me your complete system and I'll let you know....
Who cares? as far as I am concerned that is the point with PVT, SCT and sector rotation. anyone who wants to can choose to use it. Its used on a least 25 exchanges that we know of. some people use it others do not. If a person wnats to use it, he simply gets up to speed and becomes an expert.
What I have found is that people who do testing usually take quite a while to get up to speed on what they are testing. Surfer knows these people and knows their contract and reputation. They are going to be saticfying his challenge. I am the one who checks them out to see if they are getting the job done. This is not one of those Trader666 thingy's nor is is an approach that averages 18.75 per 100 share trade like Mark Brown. The stuff they are testing is public information at this point.
Very humorous IF... THEN.... If Surfer doesn't drop the ball on his challenge, then these very smart guys get to have, apparently, a new life experience. I've seen guys with 30 years experience who where officers on the floor have "the experience". You can bet your ass that after that they hire programmers.
My definition of a prenup is: "give her everything but your system." As for IT and computer science people the saying is: give them everything on paper and they will never be able to design it or test it or operate it. It is very difficult to give anyone a system under any circumstances. I know you weren't referring to me with your offer. You already gave me your views on that transfer.
I take it you not in IT. They are a lot smarter than you saying would indicate. I wasn't commenting on you, but that this comapny would find enough fools to stay in business
Lets watch this play out. I do not take anything you say personally and I am speaking from experience. Surfer is getting a hold of the outfit he is shilling for on ET (for me, I think this is a violation of the rules, personally). Naturally, I am posting here to cover the bases ASAP and getting surfer to get on it. Surfer and others are going to find out just what backtesting is. Personally I am the forward testing type and I just make sure the forward testing achieves what I do manually. These guys are going to get my input via surfer and he is goibng to get them "to produce" a product which has a whole load of results specifications that show that there is no induction in the script, no probability with respect to it's not functioning, etc. We will have transparency and I will have to ditch the humor for a while so that progress can be made. Where we are in the infinite scheme of things is the model is over 45 years old; the design was done before PC's and software languages used on PC's. When C was coming out of Murray Hill, I was long gone and long gone form IBM as well. Braithwaite was still in waiting but I was in the first grad school graduating group that is now credited for establishing the department at RPI and I was a grad in EE as well and recruiting for IBM within three years of exiting formal ed the first time around. Next I went into thoeretical physics (by invitation) and a lot of the staffing was out of the Manhattan project. When I managed two of the five divisions at the University City Science center (a 29 college and university consortium) one of the buildings was an APL center that used two 360's back to back 24/7. Now we get to play. We get to see unbelievable and astonishing. and it will be freeware that is tested to a Tee, the whole nine yards. I know this outfit of surf's is not up to speed and SO DO YOU! We are going to have a public laugh from here to eternity. Maybe what Surfer is going to get is a life experience. The outfit is sure going to have one. Once we find out where these guys are located and how good they are at handling workloads dictated by surf, we will all see what has to be done to shape things up.
Hey Surf, I have a better idea. Why don't you do the testing. Oh, sorry, forgot . . . you aren't able. I have 100 to 1 that Surf doesn't personally trade a lick. I mean gee, anyone with his posting record couldn't possibly earn a living at it. Probably the Flat Earth president to boot. Happy Easter . . . rabbit!
Well perhaps he uses automatic trading, you know software that does it for you, so you aren't a computer monitor slave all day long.