[zygomega]

Thanks Beagle, and I appreciate the sentiment and goodwill behind your comments. I remain optimistic, however irrational that seems. Big Finance is oriented to Big Data crunch-and-run processes as you describe. A highly non-linear, inclusive, non-backtested approach can't be even imagined within that paradigm. With respect to open sourcing,, well I don't think I personally have a choice. I can't do it all by myself, don't want to work on a 1000-core backtest platform. But I'm finding lots of talented hackers that share my views and want to give this a go.