How to hide the code of a strategy for clients, and give It a límited validity date for demo versión???
I need Code… Thanks!!!
This is a strategy that expires on Dec. 31st 2020:
Cond = close CROSSES OVER Average[20]
If Date > 20201231 Then
Cond = 0
Endif
If Cond and Not OnMarket Then
Buy 1 contract at Market
Endif
But strategies cannot be protected from being read, modified or duplicated.
Indicators can, instead. That’s why the workaround is to let an indicator do the setup and set conditions, so that a strategy only has to CALL it to know whether to enter at market or not. This allows anyone to read the strategy (which actually does nothing but buying and selling), while the core (the idea behind the strategy) is protected within the indicator.
The indicator (named MyIndicator), to be later protected, out of the above strategy is:
Cond = close CROSSES OVER Average[20]
If Date > 20201231 Then
Cond = 0
Endif
Return Cond
The strategy will simply be:
Cond = CALL MyIndicator
If Cond and Not OnMarket Then
Buy 1 contract at Market
Endif
To protect the indicator you have to export it to an ITF file that cannot be modified (it’s an option when exporting it). You can also let it be imported an unlimited number of times or just once.
But there are fundamental parte within the strategy that must be hidden, such as Money management, or hours of operations, and others… not just indicators.
Currently only indicators can be protected.
It is rumored that PRT are working on some improvements about protection and licensing.
Many things are rumored, but None comes.
No prt with ig, no market place, nothing at all.
Everything is todo basic… And if you program by hand everything is problems.
No wonder PRT os losing clients.
It Will soon desappear.
You will certainly disappear before PRT, thanks for your time here 😉
Just to be sure, if I wasn’t wrong, I think the market place is more than just a rumor, rumor for me is nothing committed, no plan, no future, and you hear it from side channel. But marketplace as I follow, Nicolas already worked on it, I think he explained also due to Covid-19, some delays may happen. Probably we just need to give more time and patience to the development team. I would rather wait to be sure than sorry in such financial world 🙂
To protect the indicator you have to export it to an ITF file that cannot be modified (it’s an option when exporting it). You can also let it be imported an unlimited number of times or just once.
Quick question on this…
if someone gives you an .itf with expiry, can you tell when it expires? / how long is left? Thanks!
No, only the coder and his client do!
If you received it from the client he could tell you.
If you received it from the client he could tell you.
Ah ok, so he can tell us but we cant confirm? My thinking is if I pay for an algo that has 5 year life, I would like to check it has 5 years and not 5 months,,,,. new feature request maybe?
It has nothing to do with tha platform, if it is embedded in a code, no one can tell you when it will expire.
Once the marketplace will be fully operational (one day I swear 😉 ) you will get that info directly in the platform (see attached picture).
Of course the product must have been purchased through the marketplace.
you will get that info directly in the platform
That is very cool, and a nice USP for marketplace. Thanks!
Hi Roberto,
sorry for asking a question about a sol old topic but I need to understand a couple of things about selling strategies on marketplace. Everytimy I make a strategy I incoporate the indicator because I see there are less or zero error working this way.
I f I want to sell a strategy but I want to hide it, I necessarily use the indicators. and that’s where something goes wrong, at least with me. For some reason, strategy always differ when I use Function Call and I don’t understand why.
So I’m thinking to use a different approach; I need to know if variables put in its separete menu and not indicated numerically in the strategies are visible to che customers or not. Because If I put every number of the strategy like a variable and then they are not visible, it will be hidden anyway, we can say, because variable are too many to be identified in the whole picture. Am I correct? thanks in advance for your kind answer.
Alessio
