Firstly and foremostly, hello everyone. . . This is my first post on futures.io (formerly BMT), after lurking in the shadows for a few months now. I appreciate that this site exists, and muchly appreciate all of the open and selfless contribution of knowledge, indicators, automated strategies, and kind and patient assistance given to the newest amongst us (you are better men than I in that regard. . .)
Very quick background, I'm basically a data guy. I tend to (try to) think broadly, and am very much someone who sees the forest more clearly than the individual trees. For the past couple of years, I've been devoting most of my intellectual effort towards building a predictive database to tackle horse racing. The goal, which has been reached, was complete automation, from data mining/extraction (of all race results from every track within the U.S. each day) to data processing (database functions), to spitting out an end-result prediction, and then being able to automatically act upon this prediction by placing a bet.
Extremely challenging work, considering horse racing basically has a 17-20% 'take' or 'vig'. . . but rewarding, and fun, for a strangely wired mind like my own.
Anyhow, this predictive model was not only a way to establish consistent and automated method of income, but, far more importantly, it was a 'dry run' for what I've been most interested in tackling, and that is the markets (commodities, specifically). For the past 2-3 months, my attention has been devoted entirely and obsessively to the markets, and to say its been a 'crash course' would be an understatement. Watching every webinar that I've deemed remotely relevant, reading articles and forum posts, spending countless hours studying charts and sim trading. . .
and most importantly, backtesting exhaustively. . . any and every trading-strategy idea I come across or can dream up, using multiple machines simultaneously to perform the backtests, virtually 24-7. I've also developed some methods to test each and every new indicator I come across, in a variety of ways, in an attempt to gauge the level of standalone (and, also, 'stacked') predictivity for each, and have created quite a few fairly large excel files full of results and statistics. . . most of this is being done to assist me later on with creating better strategies, HOWEVER, it serves an additional purpose at the moment, which is simply to educate myself on the in-general functioning of the markets (as well as specific instruments. . the differences between them. . differences between time periods, whether they be blocks of hours, or individual days of the week, or months. . etc).
To wrap up this novel. . . I'll reiterate, I'm a data guy. I feel like I'm quite good at looking at the overall picturing and determining what matters, what doesn't matter, and avoiding most of the potential pitfalls of backtesting. BUT. . . even still, after a few years (awhile back) of discretionary trading, and my recent 'crash course', in regards to market knowledge, I'm still an infant compared to many of you (Fattails springs to mind. . a sincere thanks to you for your posts, indicators, and intellect) when it comes to futures market knowledge and experience.
What (or whom) I'm searching for is someone with a fair amount of market knowledge, to assist me in the creation of a number of automated trading strategies. Programming knowledge would be a big plus, as I have a number of ideas for drastically improving ninja traders genetic optimization, most of which should be fairly easy to implement) but is not absolutely required. Someone who can not only suggest, from time to time, some core logic for automated strategies that I can then build upon, but also examine my existing and future strategies to come up with suggestions on how to potentially improve them. This means free access to a number of strategies I've created, that show fairly high PF/net profit over significant periods of time (4+ years), with equity curves …