Ok, here's my update. I followed BB idea, and made my own excel sheet and using vbscript,   to datalink live AH data from websites  using an HTML parser, I was able to calculate the best gem to make. there are sites that plot gem prices long term, so it is like real life commodity tracking. Flawless star emeralds were up 20% so these made the best profit. I then started buying flawless squares by buying low (hit search often) , and was making 160k per gem. I would buy enough for 4 gems worth of materials, and crafting was a click fest. In my first 8 gems, I had 1M gold profit, and while watching TV... Took about 30min. So while this works better than the lvl 20 Paragon WD farming, you gain no levels, and game progression. I am getting good gold farming MP 5 inferno, and can yield 30,000g per 5 min run till bags are full of yellow items. So it's about personal style which is better for you...but gem farming and crafting is fine, and I will continue.

One thing of mention, I am not aware of one click batch crafting.

george