I'm completely agree with you but everything depends on business you're in. If you provide traders with technical solutions, IP protection is extremely important. When you are trader trading your own strategy, I also think it doesn't really matters.
When we talk about technical issues connected with protection for trading strategy I see one very efficient way : writing unique algorithm into smart card based security device called SenseLock. You can read more about this device at www.senselock.com
We talked about this issue with russian...
Your results are very impressive. Avg Win/Lose ratio is not a problem since percent of profitable trades is so high.
Anyway something seems suspicious to me. You need running this strategy in real-time to see its real performance.
I guess eSignal provides different kind of API : one is ActiveX for communication with eSignal application and some other are for direct data access. I'm not sure about additional fees for using API but looks like they must be free.
You can read more about eSignal API here:
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