Quote from WinstonTJ:
I have no clue what Easy Language is - Learning C# was pretty easy but I was coming from a fairly advanced VBA skillset.
You pretty much have two choices, either learn to code yourself (these Tradelink/MetaTrader plugins are fairly straightforward as long as your strategy is straightforward)
or
spend an equal amount of time, headache, learning and stress on networking and network security.
Think about it this way - programming is just another language, Spanish, French, English, etc. If you provide a programmer very simple and detailed logic his/her job should be no more difficult than translating a book from one language to another.
I hope you agree that it would be hard to translate a book without the original text - You can outsource each chapter to a different translator but they still get bits and pieces AND you still need someone to spell check + bind the chapters together. The biggest thing about intellectual property is that you can't "un-learn" something so once it is out your programmers can't easily forget what they just learned. Unless you know enough about programming to 'spell check' and bind your chapters together you are ultimately going to have to rely on someone else to do that for you.
Thread after thread its the same thing... Either find someone you trust or DIY. No amount of non-competes and NDA's can force someone to "unlearn" your strategy.