Good idea ........ but who has the time?

["c" <camacazi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

in my quest to backtest 100 thousand zillian optimization/strategies/signals
, i thought gee wouldnt it be  cool if I could write a strategy , that i
could post free on a web site , that people could download , and then run ,
and then with little effort upload the results back to a web based database
, for all to see.
The strategy would contain like a set number of bars to procesess (ie 1000)
and create  1000 unimportant buy and sell signals useing something like the
high, low, and close of the day prior , then it finishes the 1000 bars and
outputs a result file in c:\ that contains the CPU type , Time to test 1000
bars , Software used , Time to access the disk and write the file (maybe).
Then this data could be used as a reference to everyone thinking of
upgradeing computers , using the single same code to test/analyse which cpu
is better/quiker for backtesting or more economical for multiple backtesting
tasks (3 cheap AMD2000 chip computers  @ 500$ each can process backtesting
tasks faster than a wizbang singlear AMD 3000+ chip computer alone @ 2000$ )
, or which platform is better (eg ts7.2 compared to offline omega prosuite
build 522).

Any thoughts?  Any better ideas?  any one got a spare thirty minutes to put
something together and the time to post/monitor the results table?  :O)
{grin and chuckle)

Cheers
Cameron

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