FOR STRATEGY MANAGERS

Have a strategy?
Have it tracked.

Collective2 turns your trading into a published, platform-tracked strategy. Every buy and sell is timestamped as it happens and added to a public record. Investors who like what they see can follow you automatically, in their own brokerage accounts — and pay you a flat monthly fee for the privilege.

Publish a strategy How the record works
  • Tracking strategies since 2001
  • Flat monthly fees, set by you
  • No performance fees
  • Your method stays yours

THE RECORD

Written forward.
One day at a time.

Anyone can show off a backtest. A backtest is the one trial out of ten that happened to work on old data — and nobody shows you the other nine. A Collective2 record is different: it begins at zero, on a known date, and is written forward as you trade.

  • No. 1

    Timestamped as you trade

    Every buy and sell is recorded the moment you make it. Nothing is backfilled, nothing is edited, and nothing is quietly deleted. The good months and the bad ones share the same page.

  • No. 2

    Losses included

    Drawdowns, losing streaks, flat years — all of it stays on the record, computed with subscription and trading fees in the math. Investors see the strategy they would actually have experienced.

  • No. 3

    Followed by real accounts

    Subscribers can follow your strategy automatically in their own brokerage accounts, and actual fills from those follower accounts feed back into how your record is computed. A crowded strategy can’t hide it.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Fair warning.

Posting your strategy on C2 is a commitment. We’d rather tell you now than have you learn it later.

A record, once begun, is not easy to walk away from. Your losing trades stay on it alongside your winners, indefinitely. If that thought bothers you, this is the wrong platform — and the investors reading this over your shoulder are glad to know it.

If you can live with that, you’re exactly who we built this for.

WHAT “TRACKED” MEANS

  • On the record from day one. Your record starts at zero on a known date. You can take a strategy private — but the record keeps running, and your profile always says it exists, when it started, and that it’s private.
  • No rewrites. You can’t backfill a good month or edit a bad one. The record is the record.
  • Success has physics. Strategies followed by too much capital can see results degrade — and because follower fills feed the record, everyone can watch it happen.

HOW IT WORKS

Trade the way you already trade.

You manage a Model Account on Collective2; your subscribers’ brokerage accounts replicate it automatically. How you place your trades is up to you.

  • 01

    WebTrader

    Point, click, and trade in your browser. If you’ve ever used an online broker, you already know how.

  • 02

    PlatformTransmit

    Keep your favorite software. Connect TradeStation, NinjaTrader, or MetaTrader to your Model Account and trade from the tools you know.

  • 03

    BrokerTransmit

    Drive your Model Account from your own real brokerage account — whatever you trade there is mirrored on Collective2. Your strategy automatically earns the “Trades Own Strategy” badge, showing subscribers you have your own money on the line.

  • 04

    The C2 API

    Roll your own code against our REST API — or let your AI assistant do it. Your program places the trades; we keep the record.

  • 05

    Plain email

    It’s a little 1999, and it works: send a few lines of text and your Model Account takes the trade.

THE BUSINESS MODEL

Flat fees. Yours.

You set a monthly subscription price for your strategy. Investors pay it for as long as they follow you. That’s the whole arrangement.

No performance fees, no high-water marks, no percentage of assets. No offshore entities, no partnerships, no fund administrators. You publish trades; subscribers choose to follow them in their own self-directed accounts. You never hold anyone’s money — so you never have to give it back.

It is, we admit, everything a hedge fund does — minus the hedge fund.

THE ARRANGEMENT, IN FULL

  • You set the monthly price subscribers pay
  • Subscribers keep their funds in their own brokerage accounts
  • You never take custody of customer money
  • No profit shares, no AUM skim, no lock-ups

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Your method stays yours.

Your methodology is the valuable part, and on Collective2 it never leaves your hands. You don’t show it to us, we don’t evaluate it, and subscribers never see it. You issue buys and sells as they happen — nothing more. We track the results.

Here to invest, not manage?

This page is for the traders. If you’d rather pick one, browse the records instead — every strategy tracked live, losses and all, followed in your own brokerage account.

Explore strategies

Put it on the record.

Open a Model Account today and your first trade starts your record. Build it in public, gather subscribers, and earn a flat monthly fee for as long as they follow you.

Publish a strategy About Collective2

Trading is risky. You can lose money. Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results. Futures and forex trading is not appropriate for everyone. Strategy results shown on Collective2 are hypothetical unless stated otherwise and have certain inherent limitations — read the full risk disclosure and how we calculate hypothetical results. Collective2 LLC is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA).