FCMs: Why offer automated trading systems?

Your customers trade smarter, stay longer

Automated trading systems help people trade better and smarter. When a customer follows a system, he is less likely to act impulsively and make emotional decisions. That means less account churn for you, and happier customers.

Before Collective2: trading systems were a hassle

Before Collective2, offering automated trading systems was difficult and time-consuming: you had to find systems, negotiate deals with system developers, rely on your IT staff to build automation, reporting, and customer-service technology. If market regimes changed, and system performance started to decline, you'd need to start the process again. Lather, rinse, and repeat.

Collective2: a turn-key, all-inclusive solution

At Collective2, we make the process of offering Automated Trading Systems through your brokerage turn-key. Start working with us, and you'll never need to worry about trading systems again. No more worries about finding them, building supporting technology, or maintaining infrastructure.

We provide an "evergreen" library of trading systems, which is continually replenished by the smartest minds from all over the world, and continuously validated using the proprietary C2 go-forward methodology.

We perform all software and technical integration for your firm, and provide all technology needed for automated trading, including order transfer via API, account synchronization, and both customer-facing and broker-facing reporting. Our software is provided as a completely turn-key service, which means you don't need to run any data centers, or expend any IT or infrastructure resources. Place one phone call to us, sign one software agreement, and you're ready to go.

Compliance friendly

When it comes to regulatory and compliance concerns, no one wants to be a pioneer and find arrows in his back. Collective2 was founded in 2002, and by any objective measure -- whether company experience, trading volume, technical expertise, or number of offered systems -- C2 is the dominant leader in the field of automated trading systems. Collective2 LLC already works with some of the world's largest FCMs to offer automated trading systems to their brokerage customers. We are NFA members, and are in full compliance with all NFA and CFTC regulations.

Both our technology, and also our business model and compliance framework, have been validated by real-world use.

Advanced Technology

At its core, Automated Trading comes down to how well the technology works. Collective2's technology is light years ahead of the competition. With seven years' experience, we've gotten it right.

Advanced features include the ability to mix multiple systems in one account, C2's AutoSynchronization Technology (which constantly monitors customer accounts, to make sure they stay "in sync" with the systems they have chosen), and C2's powerful real-time interface, which allows customers to "interfere" with their AutoTrade accounts, as much as they like. Customers have the ultimate control, and are able to set their own stop losses and profit targets (overriding that of the trading system), or can shut down positions early, or increase or decrease trade sizes on a trade-by-trade basis. This level of control ensures that C2 Autotrading offers the best of both worlds: the power of automation, and the control of self-directed trading.

Automated trading systems for your IBs

Our business model fits seamlessly into your existing introducing broker (IB) network. You can offer Collective2 technology to as many, or as few, of your IBs as you like. You can white-label it entirely -- meaning that the Collective2 brand name will almost completely disappear -- not only to end-user, but also to your IB network.

We've made our technology self-service, which means that as the FCM, you spend time only once, up front, setting the technical and compliance constraints that your IBs must work within (for example, warnings about hypothetical results, etc.), and then you can feel comfortable letting your IBs configure their own sites. Rest assured that, as FCM, you -- and you alone -- have final approval before any IB can use any aspect of the C2 technology. This is built-in to the C2 white-labeling process: nothing happens without your explicit approval.

How do I start?

Email us or call us at 914-610-3979 extension 102, and ask for Francis.