Having given great thought as to why people do it, I am convinced it is about scaling
selling/renting out algos because of scaling is in fact one of the good reasons for doing so. but if I think just a bit more, from my perspective it is quite mediocre solution – it is still extremely slow scaling, it’s scaling without leverage related to capital of the buyers/investors. one of the most serious and most fair solutions is probably anyway something what’s practiced in the industry: atracting capital to your trading and participating in profits of your investors in case trading is profitable – and in some way participating also in losses by being obliged to trade same algos/portfolio with your personal money (that puts one’s “skin into the game” – very crucial and totally absent in the “game” of bot-sellers here and on other platforms). in these modern times such possibilities to run your own public “hedge fund” are available even for “you and me”, as I was mentioning here in my answer to “morpheous”: https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/why-publish-an-algorithm/
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