"Hacking together" ?????
This is a LOT more work than you think.
Your right it is a lot of work, right now we are trying to figure out the demand for the service, hence this thread.
Why do think that you can do better than say WealthLab, TradingBlocks or many others. And why web based ?
We will be working with those companies and programs to allow import/export of systems. Trading systems can be exported from Wealth-lab and executed from us allowing users to leverage Amazons server farm. We want to make it web based to allow for the subscription/following of trader systems, this gives system creators a way to make revenue from their system outside of trades.
I cannot see serious traders relying on web based platform. What if the service provider goes out of business and the service just stops. What about confidentiality of trading system methods/code etc ? What happens if a bunch of subscribers want to run optimizations concurrently ? Are you going to set up some sort of compute farm ?
We will allow people to export their systems so they are not relying on us 100% Everyones code with kept private and confidential, people work hard to create trading systems we do not want to take that away from them. Amazons E2 farm will allow us to address running optimizations concurrently.
What is the business model ? Subscription based ?
Yea that is what we were planning
Generating a few trading system signals is just part of the game. What about position sizing ? Trading system optimization ? Portfolio testing and optimization ? Real time or EOD ? Automated trading ?
Those are all things we plan to include, especially automated trading so people can import systems from other programs and use us to execute them. We will do real time if it is possible, otherwise it will be EOD
I think you will need to spell out the goals in far more detail if you want to get any genuine interest - and avoid phrases like "hacking together"
