I am not sure what this thread can accomplish. I have been loitering on TSD for quite some time now and can recall multiple 'issues' regarding coding that suggest that there are "various shades of grey", so to speak. For instance, I remember member 'Maji' coding multiple EA's for another member for free, only to have the free-loader open up a thread to slate for being unable to make his lame strategies profitable. On the other hand, there is MrPip, who has been on the scene for several years, and is undeniably a professional programmer who produces really beautiful code. Though he has coded many free strategies in this time, I have yet to see one that as proven genuinely profitable, even though I have no doubt that many of the strategies are profitable when traded manually. So, would this make him eligible for a place on this thread - I hope not! The fact is that there is an infinitesimally small number of profitable strategies that readily lend themselves to being programmed in a straightforward manner - there are just far too many subilities in most profitable strategies that are very hard to even define, let alone program... All IMO of course...