EA Decompile Protection

[Austin John Villarico Salvador]

How hard/easy it is for people to decompile an EA if I were to provide a copy to someone? (Not in MQL5 Market)

The only security I've thought is to make the EA only run specifically to their broker account number - or else the EA would remove itself from the chart. This would make it difficult if a regular user wants to hire someone to decompile an EA. The one who's gonna decompile wouldn't be able to use the EA or backtest it with their own account.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

[Marco vd Heijden]

You can use the cloud protector.

[Austin John Villarico Salvador]

Marco vd Heijden #:
You can use the cloud protector.

Wow, I didn't know there was a feature like this. Thanks!

But I don't get how exactly it works. Does it just make it completely protected from decompiling?

[William Roeder]

There has been zero proof that any ex4/5 can be decompiled since Build 600+ (2014)
          Upcoming MetaTrader 4 and MQL4 Upgrades - Big Changes Are Underway (MetaQuotes Software Corp.) - MQL4 programming forum (2013)
          Code Protection: New MQL4 language(Build 600+) decompilation protection and other crack techniques. (Macos Silva) - MQL4 programming forum - Page 2 (2014)

[Alain Verleyen]

Austin John Villarico Salvador #:

Wow, I didn't know there was a feature like this. Thanks!

But I don't get how exactly it works. Does it just make it completely protected from decompiling?

Yes. But not from cracking any protection which could be included into the EA.