Why you should offer your trading system on Collective2

Whether you sell a daily market timing newsletter, publish weekly stock picks, or have developed a minute-by-minute futures trading system that requires instant notification of signals to subscribers - Collective2 will make your business more profitable, and reduce your hassle and overhead.

Here's how it works

To get started, you enter a brief description of your trading system into our database. That will allow members of Collective2 to search for your system and subscribe to it.

After that, any time your system recommends a trade, you enter your trading advice through Collective2. (This is called "Entering a trade signal.") When you enter your trade signal into Collective2, two things happen.

First, all your subscribers are automatically informed about your trading advice through email (you can schedule the email to take place at a certain time, or we can send it instantly).

Second, we automatically track the results of your trade against real-time market movements, and make your results available for potential subscribers to study. This means that future subscribers will be able to trust your results and will become more likely to subscribe to your system.

We handle the drudgery - you handle the trades

We take care of all the overhead and all the hassle. We'll manage your subscriptions and unsubscriptions; we'll manage the computer servers and security; we'll bill subscriber's credit cards on your behalf; we'll send out your hundreds (or thousands!) or trading system emails. Our billing system is sophisticated enough to handle free trial periods, recurring billing at different intervals (want to sell a weekly subscription? A monthly subscription? Quarterly? We can manage it for you!) We even allow you to offer subscribers an optional pay-for-performance guarantee - where we measure your system results and charge accordingly.

Sophisticated tools to make your life easy

We are creating a growing set of sophisticated tools to help you manage your trading system. You can manage your subscriber lists, see a forecast of upcoming revenue, and broadcast messages to your subscribers, all from one Web site. In addition, we provide tools that let you link your TradeStation software to Collective2, so you can automate trade entry.

"Auto-trade" your system in a real-life brokerage account

Thanks to our partnerships with software developers like Advanced Trading Research (the developer of TradeBullet), subscribers to your trading system can auto-trade your trading advice in their real-life brokerage account.

We bring you new customers

Our Web site is young, but our membership is growing rapidly. As more and more people join Collective2, you benefit as more potential customers can see your system, study it, and subscribe to it. We are spending our own marketing dollars to increase our user base. These marketing dollars benefit you by increasing your subscription rate!

How much does this cost?

You can create a trading system, and try out all of Collective2's features for free. You'll be able to see how easy it is to trade futures, stocks, and options - and to use all of our sophisticated features (Instant Trade Messenger, auto-emails, conditional and one-cancels-another orders, etc.)

We give you five free "trade signals" that you can use to experiment with the site. We think after that, you'll be convinced that Collective2 is one of the coolest sites around for traders. Then, we'll ask you to pay a semi-annual Listing Fee to appear on the site.

Listing Fees.

First Trading System Added: $98 for six-month listing

Trading systems added in next 3 months: $73 per six-month listing

Remember, that you will get paid for each subscriber that signs up for your trading system. You can charge whatever you like. Collective2 keeps 30% of any subscriptions processed on your behalf. At the end of each month, we remit the remainder of your subscription charges back to you.

"But I don't want the whole world to see my trading signals..."

Don't worry. We don't make results of a trade public, or disclose a position to non-subscribers to your system, until your trade has been closed.

"But I can do this myself..."

No doubt you can. But there are three reasons you should offer your trading system through Collective2.

(1) We have a growing membership base. You can continue to offer your system through other channels and manage any portion of your subscribers on your own. Our service is completely incremental to that - we are growing your customer base, and helping you earn dollars you would not otherwise earn.

(2) We are trusted - and therefore so are you. By offering your system through Collective2, the fact that we are a "Trusted Platform" rubs off on you and increases your legitimacy and - eventually - your subscriber base. Because we are a trusted platform for system vendors, subscribers know they can trust you, your system, and your results.

(3) There's no risk. Just think of us as one more sales and marketing channel you can use to market your trading system. (Although we're a gosh-darn sophisticated and helpful one...) You can stop using us whenever you like. We're convinced you'll like us, though!

How do I start?

It's easy. Adding your trading system takes a minute or two, and the trial period is absolutely free. We don't even ask for a credit card. (We're so convinced you'll love us, we know you'll be back!)

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