Sell my algorithm

[Snuskpelle]

Security professional here: anything will be decompiled. Managed languages like C#, Java, Python (regardless whether you ran an obfuscator), native compiled languages like C/C++, D, Rust, etc.

Today's decompiler tools are very advanced, and reverse-engineering services are offered a lot on the Dark Web. Even cheap $100 games are hacked, so what you think will happen with your algo that is worth millions? Don't underestimate the skill-set of those in this shady business!

As others pointed out: the truely safe way is to run it on your own hardware (or a server you rent at a reputable host). Have your client send you a constant tick stream and return signals.

Sure. And you can do system identification even on a blackbox if you know the inputs and outputs, so what you are proposing is technically not 100% safe as well.

The best obfuscators today are pretty darn good though and offer a reasonable level of protection against the allure of casually decompiling the code to understand it.

One cannot protect against someone deciding to hire the best people in the world to reverse engineer your IP beyond extreme secrecy. But at the end of the day it's about who you do business with, right?

 

[hilmy83]

Why do you sell such a good cash flow cow then?
Doesn't make sense, IMHO.
And how can you be sure about the safety & security of your source code residing at somewhere else (ie. Quantconnect) but on your own computer?
I simply don't get it...

Yes, doesn't make sense. For 17x return with scalabitliy into the millions..

Either he's lying, drunk, or plain stupid.

I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and assuem he's a raging alcoholic and can't think straight.