The world's first Distributed Hedge Fund Our modest goal: replace the entire hedge-fund industry with one beautiful software platform.How it works• We scour the world for undiscovered traders, quants, and algo developers.• We track their results and post public track records.• We calculate statistics and performance results on a go-forward basis. (We don't simply let traders post their own "backtest results.")• When you find a strategy you like, you can AutoTrade it — that is, you can replicate trades in your own personal brokerage account.Why C2 is better than a hedge fund• Your money stays in your account at all times.• You can start and stop trading at any time.• You pick the strategies to replicate in your account.• You can mix strategies together.What you should know about Collective2 • Collective2 has been in business for over 20 years. • We are a New-York based company, regulated in the United States. • No one can guarantee trading profits. You may lose money. But we can guarantee transparency, reporting accuracy, and doing right for you.Find Out More
Collective2 (collective2.com) has 32 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 3.4 out of 5.
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Investments & Wealth
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New York, New York
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2026
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I had a glitch with C2 on my trading screen, contacted admin and Matthew came to the rescue. He walked me through every step and he resolved the problem. Super impressed with C2 and particularly Matthew´s level of expertise. Problem solved.
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TCdn
Simply the best autotrading and alternative investing platform
I have been a client, strategy follower and autotrader at Collective2 for well over a decade. I have tried other approaches over the years, but Collective2 is simply the best platform of its kind for vetting and following alternative investment strategies with your own money, and for autotrading those strategies at your preferred broker.
Over the years they have worked with regulators, improved functionality, streamlined user experiences, and I have been impressed by their ability to keep everything very reliable in a complex environment where money is on the line and where that is not an easy task.
Whenever I have had questions or minor issues, their support has responded within seconds, or, at worst, minutes, to help me out. They also refreshingly allow their more technical staff to be involved in conversations with users to answer more technical questions quickly.
As with any relatively open platform, there are certain things (in this case, strategies and trade leaders) that most clients/subscribers would be well-advised to avoid. This is akin to low quality posts in any online forum, but the difference here is that, yes, you could lose money. Because of that, I would recommend Collective2 to people who are willing to take responsibility for their own actions and choices and do their homework on which strategies they follow. For example, I wouldn't personally allocate my money to a strategy until I first at least had a message-based conversation with the trade leader, and made sure they had sufficient history and transparency in their methods such that I was comfortable with what I was getting. Far too often in the investing world, people will blame the platform, the strategy, their broker, or anything else they can find, in order to convince themselves it wasn't ultimately their own decisions that caused a loss.
There are some excellent strategies with positive long term expectancy and low correlation to buy-and-hold market performance on Collective2, which is why I am still here after all these years and valuing its role in my investing life more than ever. This is typically expensive and hard to find in the investing world, and usually prohibitive to anyone who is not firmly in the "high net worth" category or higher. Collective2 offers this at an unmatched value and with easy, flexible implementation.
I felt the need to write this since I see many reviews where a customer clearly joined, greedily rolled the dice by choosing to follow a questionable strategy with too much leverage trying for a "get rich quick" outcome, and then blamed the platform when it didn't work out for them. These reviews are simply not worth your consideration other than as a reminder that any tool can be used incorrectly if one is not qualified to use it.
If you want a platform that will put you in a bubble with guardrails and tell you what to do, Collective2 is not for you. If you want an ability to access excellent strategies that provide top notch diversification benefits to a traditional investment portfolio in an environment that also happens to contain some not-so-excellent strategies, if you resist shooting yourself in the foot with short term over-leveraged greed, and are thoughtful about your decisions, then you will be thankful to be a member of Collective2.
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Alex Y.
with collective2..
I have been working with collective2 service for over 5 years as a trade leader.
I have observed (and am observing) many interesting trading strategies. Many of them have crashed. However, many of them continue to successfully generate profits.
I am (and have been) in contact with many private investors who are (or have been) my subscribers (have followed my strategies).
Based on this, I would like to say that the collective2 service is a very accurate reflection of everything that is happening in the private trading and investing industry.
Most trading strategy crashes are due to trading leaders wanting to show impressive results to gain followers to their strategies. This leads to excessive risk taking. A big risk is followed by a crash.
Most private investor capital crashes are due to their desire to make big profits in a short period of time. They subscribe to strategies that show big profits with big risk. What follows is a crash.
But I also see a lot of private investors who put together a portfolio of many conservative strategies. So they have little risk in each strategy and overall a very stable profitable portfolio.
The collective2 service is constantly developing strategy analysis tools for investors.
With a little time it is possible to create a very profitable and flexible portfolio.
Investors lose money due to their incompetence in the area of selecting risk-appropriate strategies.
Choose strategies that have been around for a long time (at least 6 months and have enough trades to analyse - at least 200).
And preferably the trading leader follows his own capital to his strategy.
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Tony T.
Review as trade leader on collective2
I've been a customer on collective2 as a subscriber for about half a year before I decided to try being a trade leader also. I'm decently successful as a trader, so the thought of making extra money on top of trading sounded good! It worked out great. Everything is legit, I am paid for subscribers, and the collective2 system makes everything work.
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Ben L.
Quick response to my questions
Quick response to my questions - excited to contiue to use the platform
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Hennie S.
"Collective2 has highly client-centered!
"Collective2 is on the cutting edge of facilitating and connecting both managers and investors here in USA. Since it is a highly regulated space and there are few brokers that facilitate this connection with full compliance, Collective2 is super picky and rightfully so with vetting and bringing on any brokers. I am pleased to inform all that C2 always looks out for both their managers and investors during unforeseen changes. In early May 2022 one popular US broker terminated their affiliation with C2 and it affected me greatly as manager of a strategy and with clients attached to my strategy. The customer care at C2 was expeditious, friendly and all my questions were answered to my concerns and C2 refunded me my costs for the new month that had just started and for the services I was now not going to be able to benefit from. C2 looks out for their clients! You are in good hands with them. Peace
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DA
I have been using C2 for 6 months
I have been using C2 for 6 months. There is significant depth of strategies. The data that can be utilised is extremely professional. Having come from a CTA environment over the last 30 years I would happily recommend C2 to anyone. A genuine offering that one can be proud of.
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Jan T.
I enjoy C2 very much
I enjoy C2 very much. The communication with the customer service was always fast, they are kind and efficient. I first heard of C2 and visited its web about 10 years ago when starting to trade on my own.... Having bad experience with eTorro at that time, I was very suspicious. When seing one had to pay for the trading strategies I lost my interest :-). Pity, now I consider it a big mistake. I gave it proper look about a year ago and I've never looked back since. It took me a few months to identify good strategies. There are also some nice looking strategies where the good results are more likely due to "beginners luck". Shortly after subscribing I suffered some serious losses... :-) Not a joke - one can easily lose a lot of money but one can also gain some. :-) So I cannot stress enough to start slowly and small, be carefull and have some basic knowledge about the markets before starting as the potential lossed can sometimes also exceed the available account balance. Now I feel gratefull for the opportunity and use C2 strategies as diversification to my own trading.