Hide the Code and limit date for demo versión.

• 08/02/2020 at 12:39 AM #140637
  Fran55

  How to hide the code of  a strategy for clients, and give It a límited validity date for demo versión???

  I need Code… Thanks!!!

  

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  08/02/2020 at 8:31 AM #140639
  robertogozzi

  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

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  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

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  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

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  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.

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  08/02/2020 at 3:05 PM #140654
  Fran55

  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.

  

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  08/02/2020 at 3:48 PM #140657
  robertogozzi

  Currently only indicators can be protected.

  It is rumored that PRT are working on some improvements about protection and licensing.

   

  

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  08/02/2020 at 4:04 PM #140658
  Fran55

  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.

   

  

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  08/03/2020 at 8:13 AM #140695
  Nicolas

  You will certainly disappear before PRT, thanks for your time here 😉

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  08/03/2020 at 2:19 PM #140734
  Dow Jones

  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 🙂

  

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  08/03/2020 at 9:38 PM #140795
  Fran55

  Truth?

  

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  02/23/2021 at 2:27 PM #162437
  Monobrow

  robertogozzi wrote:

  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!

  

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  02/23/2021 at 2:29 PM #162438
  robertogozzi

  No, only the coder and his client do!

  If you received it from the client he could tell you.

   

  

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  02/23/2021 at 2:39 PM #162442
  Monobrow

  robertogozzi wrote:

  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?

  

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  02/23/2021 at 3:53 PM #162454
  robertogozzi

  Suggestions can be posted here https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/centralization-of-queries-and-suggestions-on-prorealtime/,

  or here https://www.prorealtime.com/it/contatto?suggestion=1  (page IT should be automatically redirected to your country).

   

   

  

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  02/23/2021 at 4:12 PM #162459
  Nicolas

  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.

  

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  02/23/2021 at 8:25 PM #162480
  Monobrow

  Nicolas wrote:

  you will get that info directly in the platform

  That is very cool, and a nice USP for marketplace. Thanks!

  

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  11/21/2025 at 2:15 PM #253866
  Aragorna

  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

  

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