You said, " Howard Bandy's
published analytical approaches using AB as a platform
have resulted in new AB functionality that TJ has incorporated into
the product." . Which functionality is this? If you're thinking about
objective function and Walk forward analysis, that was pioneered by
Fred ages ago. Otherwise, my mind is blank. Please enlighten.
TJ's business model is certainly unique.
NEVER before have I seen a business owner / developer directly
involved with each and every customer thru a forum like this.
TJ deserves praise for tightly integrating increasingly sophisticated
functionality into the AB product.
But the AB customer community deserve a great deal of praise for
innovative ideas that TJ ultimately adapted to AB.
Fred is a free-thinker who introduced us to the concepts of portfolio
backtesting and PSO which have since been tightly integrated into AB.
William Peters introduced the 'wizard' concept for non-programmer's
which has since been improved upon and tightly integrated into AB by TJ.
Howard Bandy's published analytical approaches using AB as a platform
have resulted in new AB functionality that TJ has incorporated into
the product.
And there are quite a few other users whose ideas / suggestions TJ has
implemented into the AB product. And of course Dimitris was the
ultimate 'end-user' in years past who could show us all how to
implement new features of AB.
None of this takes away from TJ's development skills, but it is
important to acknowledge the contributions of the entire AB community
in the evolution of AB.