Years ago I offered to pay trading-strategy developers an extra $1,000 /mo to beat the S&P and trade in a style that isn't insane. Now we have a lot of "C2Star" strategies! Please subscribe to them and follow in your brokerage account so C2 stays solvent. collective2.com/star

More of our "Unboxing C2" series, where we ask regular people to make sense of our wonky automated investing site. Yes, our UI is circa 2003, but it kinda works for us.

Unboxing C2: Roman asks his friend Michelle - who knows nothing about investing and trading - to look at Collective2 - our complicated, janky, automated trading web site. We recorded Michelle's reactions. Here she praises our modern, easy-to-read UI.

Roman asks his friend Dave — who knows nothing about investing and trading — to look at Collective2 — our complicated, janky, automated trading site. Dave is a civil engineer, with thousands of hours of science training, so there's no way he will find our site confusing … right?

Roman asks his friend Dave — who knows nothing about investing and trading — to look at Collective2 — our complicated, janky, automated trading web site. Dave's first question: "Do you need a million dollars to use it?" Here's our answer.

Goodnight, Gracie.

Here's an ad for Collective2 which doesn't work - a failure in many different ways. The idea was to aim at "strategy creators" rather than strategy buyers, but it was hard to find B-roll that worked, plus sound quality stinks, and tbh I don't even enunciate clearly. Marble mouth.

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Collective2 Town Hall on Zoom - Thur Nov 20, 1PM ET (10AM PT) Open to all C2 Members, prospective users, and the vaguely interested. C2 Team people will attend. Agenda: share ideas for improvement, ask questions, get to know other C2 Members. Details in forums.collective2.com

Today Collective2 held its first "C2 Town Hall" - a virtual meeting open to users and prospective users. It was nice to see the people behind the screen names. Thanks for coming, and for participating.

How to Paper Trade on C2 (hint: use the "Leader Board" to look for trading strategies).

Top Trading Strategies for Feb 2026 announced by Collective2. 25 ranked strategies. #1 Adaptive Investments (Stocks) has hypothetical Annual Return (Compounded) 143.0% and C2 Score 998. Prevailing style mix: Stocks 18/25; Futures 6/25. Manager: FormulaicSystems. Full ranked data