How to obtain the best price for your strategy's automation
There is a few tips that you should know before giving your project to a programming service. We will talk about how to have the lowest possible quote but the first thing you should do is to look for programming services and to try to learn more about their job's quality. (That is the main factor that you should consider for your programing service choice).
1) Select the most programming services as possible.
By doing so, you increase the chances of receiving an interesting quote.
2) Filter them by quotation method.
Some EA coders will charge you on a hourly basis while some others will charge you depending on the trading robot's complexity. What you should do is only keep those who charge you depending on the robot's complexity. The thing is they will always try to tell you that your algorithm's is sophisticated even if it is just a crossing moving average EA. With the next step, we will see how to destroy this argument.
3) Put your selected programmers in competition
Send your Expert Advisor project to all the programmers in one email. This way, each one of them will see that you sent your project to other programmers. Automatically, they will try to provide you with the best price because they know that if they don't, then you will give your project to an other coder and they definitely don't want this to happen. This is the key in this negotiation and it works ! Also, when they answer you, only you can see their answers which means that they have no ideas of the price offered by the others. Therefore, they are totally unable to align on price.
4) Final Step : select the best price
After receving offers from every programmers, just select the best price but also consider the reliability of the coder.