You have a profitable trading system and other people know that you do

[BullAlert]

Quote from ProgrammerGuy:

So you have a profitable trading system that is automated and you try to tell very little people, but either way there are people know do know, you trust em' but you never know if someone knows that your computer at your house contains a program that will make someone rich.

What do you do?

There are many options available to you:

(1) Learn something about programming

(2) Use said program to get rich, then destroy the PC

or, my personal favorite...

(3) Don't post on a public Internet forum that you have a program that will make someone rich (see # 2)

 

[DeeDeeTwo]

Quote from psytrade:

I used to think that. But you have to remember that people represent the worst of the following characteristics amongst the retail public:

1) cynical (so what who cares, I have no money to invest)

2) lazy (they could care less)

3) disbelieving & critical (they think you are trying to rip them off)

4) all of the above

If you find someone who does not fit the above criteria, he is probably (hopefully) one of your investors.

Most Hedge funds fit into the above retail public categories too. Even when they are bleeding money, they would often be too proud to reach out for that life raft of a system you might have. And if they did, they would probably simply demand that you regurgitate the system in an interview, though they would likely be too stupid to make sense of it (being too proud makes people stupid).

There's a lot of truth to this post...
But really...

(1) Most pro trading firms, like Bright, are practicing classic forms of arbitrage...
And couldn't care less about some guys "system".

(2) Most hedge funds are elaborate scams...
Just "skimming operations" fronted by a "good story"...
And couldn't care less about some guys "system".

(3) 99% of people do not have the expertise and infrastructure to implement a successful trading operation...
So they wouldn't know what to do with some guy's system.

If you don't have capital and impressive Audited Financials for 5 years or so...
Then only an EXPLOITER would want to talk to you.

 

[CaliforniaKid23]

Most automated systems are actually very complex like condorll said, even a slight variation on operating them can make a huge difference (butterfly effect) - between making money and losing money.


since we are on the topic of security, does anyone know if the basic windows vista start up password would be good enough for security purposes?