Just had a wacky idea that may appeal to some on the forum.
How about having an area on the forum for broken strategies - be it betting or trading - that once worked and now are broken? As a result of this, the strategies have been discarded and are no longer being used. The challenge would then be thrown out to the forum to make the strategy work and the 'solution', along with test data as proof, would be shared with the author via direct message. Once the author validates the strategy is now working, both he and the problem solver have something that now works again.
If taken in the right spirit, this would be a win-win and there is no downside because no working edge is being given away.
Thoughts welcome.
Wacky idea - fixing broken betting / trading strategies
I like the idea, however I think the issue is that many strategies are variants of the (broken/non profit) strategy. Which in turn could lead to possibly dozens of people now having the building blocks of a strategy that is working. I don't think many pro's will risk it considering how much time and effort would have gone into it