Ask HN: How to Monetize a Trading Strategy?

[jjoe]

Hello HN

While studying price charts, I stumbled upon a high-probability trading strategy. My back testing has shown very good results. I haven't found anything like it online. While I'm not ready to share this strategy here yet, I have a few questions.

How would you go about sharing this strategy but at the same time monetizing it? Besides a book and maybe an online course, is there anything I can do to make a passive income out of this?

Thank you

[dave4420]

Why not just trade using it?

[jjoe]

I'm burnt out on this front. Maybe I'll try again some day

[xmas2025]

If the efficient market hypothesis is roughly correct, then publishing your secret idea immediately drops its value to roughly zero because everyone will adopt it.

If your strategy produces future gains above its risk-adjusted benchmark (i.e., real trading, not back-testing), then use the strategy and keep quiet. If you want others to benefit too, then just give away your gains to charity.

[jjoe]

There's an inherent ubiquitous nature to the strategy. Kinda like the golden ratio or the elliott wave theory. They've been published and are ubiquitous but they still occur in charts.

But I understand that once the algos know about the strategy, it becomes targeted to oblivion. So maybe I need to muster out the strength and use it without publishing its source.