Aggressive contrarian trading style in daily futures contracts which is often profitable in the end BUT the strategies come with considerable large overnight or longer drawdowns. That was my experience. You must be considerably patient and control yourself during those nerve-racking spikes at times. Too much stress for me! If you are suited for the rock-n-roll trading gyrations, Trade Detector is eventually more often profitable and may be right for you. Good luck!

I had had high hopes for this strategy but have finally come to the realization after losing a great deal of money on many of these C2 strategies, that this concept just does not work and is very high risk. You do not know these people or their real intent or capability. I would have been better off losing money in this down market in a mutual fund.

Has many strategies all of them blow up

Negative gain Dec2022-Jan2023

The worst strategy. Big loss and the author did not respond

saw some good performance during 2020 but then it pretty much fell off after that.

Very Good!

Very Good!

Very Good!

Had lost everything ....
Why ? It works great at the beginning and then ....

Excellent results with low risks

Exceptional

Awesome strategy. Lots of wins and very few losses. Will continue to follow.

Great strategy with demonstrated returns and a very communicative manager!

good strategy

This strategy uses very low leverage. Low risk and steady gains.

There was great promise with Jim, and his strategy. I feel dupped, however.
It hasn't gone well at all as you can see from the serious draw-down for both his strategies.
Positives are that he used his own name; prior professional from ML--you don't see many on Collective2 using their own name.
He really should not be on Collective2 as an auto-trading service. He is trying to get subscribers, and this is not going well.
On several occasions, he has missed major market moves/action/events because he is not around, or golfing (he is retired)-do not auto-trade with him for this reason alone!!!
This is a timing strategy he created over many years. He tried 'selling' it to Hedge Funds, but they stated to him his strategy would fail and what he developed was not possible to achieve the returns he promotes, I think they were right, even though I think Jim thinks he can achieve them. He makes 'enhancements' after serious mistakes and failed trades. Ahhh, why so many enhancements, what can he possibly be doing, and 300 parameter and inputs to the formula--of course, he states it is all proprietary.
He honestly thinks he has found the holy grail.
Jim, spends 3 hours nightly crunching all the variables and inputs to come up with the next day's signals.
"My strategies take over 3 hours to calculate (218 Excel spread sheets) each evening"---wow!!!!
How did I get suckered into this nonsense, apparently a very sophisticated and time-consuming process, but he often will not place his own trade the next after all of this work. Again, no not auto-trade as he is very unreliable to even follow his own signals.
Be careful as he will send you continuously spreadsheet with all these brands new 'enhancements'-constantly tweaking; his yearly results are ridiculous and of course, & no-one can achieve what he is promoting. Professionals have told him this, and now he is on Collective2 willing to destroy your hard-earned money with no remorse.
This 'spreadsheet' seems to only serve the purpose as to pull in naive subscriber's (like myself). But we all know, disaster is lurking around the corner and these strategies all too often as we see on Collective2, hurt so many. They all blow up, they call it 'volatility'. In the beginning he didn't seem to have any problem promoting how great his strategy was performing. As predictable, of course, when his strategy suffered serious losses--the messaging and propaganda changed in his nightly updates. He quickly changed his promises and promotional garbage.
I hope he does well and will follow only peripherally.
I am hurt he banned me from posting/making comments in his activity/social feed for no reason-I was never harsh and asked legitimate questions. He is concerned his only subscriber might comment on the problems that have developed.
Lastly, Jim claims he is following both his strategies with $250,000 for each--that may be true. Perhaps, he needs to get his TOS certification, so subscribers know he is really following this 'hedge' fund quality signals as he says he is. Ultimately this is all on me, never follow anyone unless they have TOS and they are trading their own money. Don't follow anyone that has a spreadsheet that shows annual returns that you know, are simply impossible. It is just typically a means to lure you in!!
Bottom line, stay away!!

There was great promise with Jim, and his strategy. I feel dupped, however.
It hasn't gone well at all as you can see from the serious draw-down for both his strategies.
Positives are that he used his own name; prior professional from ML--you don't see many on Collective2 using their own name.
He really should not be on Collective2 as an auto-trading service. He is trying to get subscribers, and this is not going well.
On several occasions, he has missed major market moves/action/events because he is not around, or golfing (he is retired)-do not auto-trade with him for this reason alone!!!
This is a timing strategy he created over many years. He tried 'selling' it to Hedge Funds, but they stated to him his strategy would fail and what he developed was not possible to achieve the returns he promotes, I think they were right, even though I think Jim thinks he can achieve them. He makes 'enhancements' after serious mistakes and failed trades. Ahhh, why so many enhancements, what can he possibly be doing, and 300 parameter and inputs to the formula--of course, he states it is all proprietary.
He honestly thinks he has found the holy grail.
Jim, spends 3 hours nightly crunching all the variables and inputs to come up with the next day's signals.
"My strategies take over 3 hours to calculate (218 Excel spread sheets) each evening"---wow!!!!
How did I get suckered into this nonsense, apparently a very sophisticated and time-consuming process, but he often will not place his own trade the next after all of this work. Again, no not auto-trade as he is very unreliable to even follow his own signals.
Be careful as he will send you continuously spreadsheet with all these brands new 'enhancements'-constantly tweaking; his yearly results are ridiculous and of course, & no-one can achieve what he is promoting. Professionals have told him this, and now he is on Collective2 willing to destroy your hard-earned money with no remorse.
This 'spreadsheet' seems to only serve the purpose as to pull in naive subscriber's (like myself). But we all know, disaster is lurking around the corner and these strategies all too often as we see on Collective2, hurt so many. They all blow up, they call it 'volatility'. In the beginning he didn't seem to have any problem promoting how great his strategy was performing. As predictable, of course, when his strategy suffered serious losses--the messaging and propaganda changed in his nightly updates. He quickly changed his promises and promotional garbage.
I hope he does well and will follow only peripherally.
I am hurt he banned me from posting/making comments in his activity/social feed for no reason-I was never harsh and asked legitimate questions. He is concerned his only subscriber might comment on the problems that have developed.
Lastly, Jim claims he is following both his strategies with $250,000 for each--that may be true. Perhaps, he needs to get his TOS certification, so subscribers know he is really following this 'hedge' fund quality signals as he says he is. Ultimately this is all on me, never follow anyone unless they have TOS and they are trading their own money. Don't follow anyone that has a spreadsheet that shows annual returns that you know, are simply impossible. It is just typically a means to lure you in!!
Bottom line, stay away!!

loser

Really awesome trader. Have had very good results so far. Definitely recommend.

Great so far. Excellent results. I can only do 10% scaling though or else my broker won't fill the sizing. Thanks!

Fantastic trader. Excellent gains so far. Highly recommend. Disciplined approach with stop losses. Helped me to recover big losses from many other C2 traders to date. Looking forward to gains in 2023 going forward with only the best C2 traders. No more bagholders on C2, who lose it all and more, and have fake results over the long term. Thank you!

good strategy for not losing your pants in a volatile market, lets you sleep at night.

Over the last 18+ months, I've lost 15%... Potentially worth holding onto longer term. Switched management shortly after I subscribed, which makes it difficult to continue holding (although the original manager is still in touch with the current manager, according to a conversation several months ago). Unsure whether it will ever return to its best years, but still seems to avoid massive losses ... Just not seeing the gains. Hmmmmmm..... I'm on the fence!

I subscribed to this strategy about a month ago. At that time it was ranked #15 in the C2 system and it is now at #1. First the positives. I doubt that there are many strategies on C2 that have a trade leader with the expertise and experience such as this one. I could be wrong on this but I did my homework on the creator and came away very impressed. The monthly subscription fee is relatively low compared to some others and he keeps the number of trades fairly low as well....at least not an exorbitant amount. The trades he does make are 75% profitable. He uses very little leverage and gets great returns. Over the 6 months this strategy has been active there has never been a month that was not profitable. As for the negative aspects, there have been a couple of periods where I was not comfortable with the drawdowns. Also, It is sometimes hard for me to get fills on some of the trades because I trade with less than the recommended capital and at a reduced scale but also because IBKR is unable to find shares available. Because of these negative issues I would give it a 4.5 rating....still an excellent score.

Absolute worst strategy on this site. Stay away.

Incurred 17% loss not including the $120 subscription every month. I will not recommend this strategy to anyone...bit is just a swing in the air

too soon to tell..price is right

With 5000 dollar to follow this stategy i am bleeding on commission. Thats why i stopt, but still i think you can make money with a substantial amount to follow The Momentum of Now.
I was just onlucky starting at the wrong moment when things got down

None

So far a positive review particularly in downside risk management.

When the market was good and predictable, this was doing amazing! Just like every other program.

Unfortunately, in this unpredictable market with social, political, and economic uncertainties, the algorithm just doesn't keep up and smooth out the rough spots to at least minimize losses.

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Strategy developer seems to have changed many of his strategies., over the last week. Another futures developer that is about to crash and burn because the developer changes everything and seems to be experimenting, and with very little communication?? Be careful. Warnings and major red flags. It is not the same system, and he changed it-with little explanation or follow-up to the bad trades. Seems to be taking a lot more risk on. Very erratic trading and seems drastically different based on concerns derived from slippage and market orders. Sent a message prior stating if 'performance doesn't improve' he would soon 'shut the strategy down'. That is not a good, at least warning us. His LucidMNQSwing-you would think that he would be trading only MNQ contracts--today it traded an actual NQ contract causing a significant loss to the system. Trades prior all MNQ and then this week, it starts randomly trading NQ contracts. Then, he creates another strategy with no explanation and starts charging $300, we have seen this before. Time to jump off the train before he runs his strategies into the ground. Would be nice to get feedback from him, which might help, but this last 2 weeks, so different now. This could end badly. Developer needs to message the subscriber ASAP to provide great details to what is going on. I would love to think this strategy survives and does well for everyone, but look at some of the actual trades, particular his MNQ swing--not cool and dangerous to subscribers that weren't expecting to have such increased risk to switching to NQ contracts, that is someone that doesn't value his subscribers.

I have followed this strategy for 3 months now, and I am still don't feel fully confident about it. It seems Strategy Manager changes trading strategy every 2 weeks and is difficult to evaluate efficiency, besides the feeling of high risk involved by changing strategy without proper backtesting or confidence if it will work well. Sometimes I feel strategy has good entry points, but fail a lot to find the optimum exit points. Communication is poor, I wish he/she could improve it.

I'm pleased with the performance of the strategy for the month I've been subscribed to. The Strategy Manager sends out periodic communications and I think he is doing a good job with the strategy!

Badly manged tades

worst strategy... stay away from Karl Colin... he is crazy trader and doesn't about stop losses.
keeps adding on loosing positions. He ruins accounts and then come up with new strategy with new name.
I don't know why C2 don't ban him from putting strategy on their platform. Remember his name Karl Collin

Returns look good when you review the strategy but I didn’t get the same returns as I rarely got the fills for the orders by the brokerage - the strategy shorts micro caps that are hard to borrow. Strategy traded on choppy CPI day and lost heavily on both the long and short side!

Initially I thought he knows his game and he made good amount. But he has no plan in case his trade go against him. I lost more than 40-50K . please don't trade with him.

So far not good, can't handle bad markets apparently., but I'll wait, trusting the history (25% down atm)

Worst trader ever saw in C2, Stay away from this trader. very soon this SM will start new strategy with new name.. He did same thing so far 3-4 times.

without any risk control, any huge gains are just pure luck

this trader had a lucky start, however, he insisted to short the USD/JPY again when he almost blew up the first time, since then he had gone against the FED, JCB, big trend and leveraged to the neck but give up totally on his stops, praying the JCB would intervene again to save the trade. I had liquidated since he moved the stop second time...

Very good communication and haven't had a losing week yet. I highly recommend this strategy.

Very bad, no communication and very rare calls

Dont allow such badly maintained trade leaders. There shoudl be some deep level checking to allow such bad trade leaders. I was messaging him on what he want to do on the trades and he seems taking revenge on his subscribers. A totaal SHAM and SCAMster.

C2 team, please do enough checks to keep your reputation.

Really poor risk management. Lost $6.6k in few hours based on minimum suggested value of around $60k. Kept adding to losing position

ANY RISK MANAGEMENT

Total lack of control on his part, reckless, stay away at all costs from him. A complete amateur.

This is a diversified portfolio of algorithms trading futures. Good risk management, every trade has a stop loss, and all trades are closed by 4:00pm. These are mostly breakout systems, so they can get stopped out in a choppy market, but they are highly profitable when the market makes a big move. The developer is responsive and helpful. Highly recommended!

Got spanked today. The system kept averaging on a losing trade. Down $37,000 on one trade. This is the prescription for a blow up; The only reason I gave two stars is I have to take some responsibility for choosing it.

Terrible strategy. Appeared to be a skilled forex strategy when was up 200% and when stated past years results. Quickly discovered that trades are way oversized even with small account size 15k used/recommended, and trader users averaging down on losers which is in general bad trading unless trend is certain. Past results were likely falsified. Trader lost all gains quickly and more with several poor risk management trades. I was fortunate to realize poor skill and risk management was apparent and only lost 25k instead of my whole account. It's also believed that trader also posts false reviews to get customers as all he cares about is the fees, He couldn't care less about blowing up account. Congrats another C2 scam trader. Stay away from ARK anything.

I am loosing lot of money - Also, they randomly charge my credit card with sometimes 120$, sometimes $390

do not recommend

too many looses

Excellent trader and performance. Occasionally figures out way to adjust trade in the end to make it a winner, when things don’t go exactly as planned. Exceptional market knowledge.

Excellent trader. Has proper direction of market. Great entries and knowledgeable. Has stops when needed. Amazing performance overall.

Great trader. Has proper entries and stops. Excellent performance overall.

Quite an active strategy, rarely a quiet day, which is nice. Trader seems to mostly bet on mean reversion after strong swings, which works well most of the time since that's the more common pattern. Trader tends to double down on initial losses like a Martingale, leading to higher risk and drawdowns on bets in the wrong direction. Again that works if we get mean reversion within the normal time frame for a trade (up to a few days here). However, sometimes it's not a brief deviation but a full new trend, and then the strategy of adding leverage after initial losses really backfires, leading to large losses on a few trades. Stop margins are far too wide to contain this risk. After several months of trading my return on this strategy was negative because the few high loss trades more than wiped out the trickle of positive returns on the much less leveraged successful trades. Entry timing could also be improved, trader often jumps in right in the middle of a steep move, could wait until there is at least a sign of a change in direction. Overall the returns don't justify the risks taken, and risk goes up significantly in choppy trading, causing net negative returns over a period of several months fo me.

it won with demo and not real

JWB Stock and ETF ORB trader plays with calculated risks. The trader has had tough days but overall has performed better than S&P and has been consistent for several years. Low risk and consistent positive performance relative to S&P is what I was looking for.

The strategy description sounds like it's written by a lawyer, quoting "in the Enhanced version, underperforming positions are held with less tolerance and occasionally liquidated sooner." The key word here is "occasionally." I guess a 45% drawdown is still viewed as tolerable for this strategy. Too risky for me.

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Risk management is very poor. Lost almost all due to a large short position held over a month, when the market went up. Recommended account size and positions would result in a margin call at the brokers I know, but still leader kept position. I adviced leader 2 times to get out, but he was confident in winning. After I left, he has reduced the position and regained some losses.

Good steady returns with minimal downside risk (especially if you set your own stoploss). I like the short term trades, so I'm not stuck holding a position if there is sharp move in the markets. This is the perfect "fire and forget" strategy.

Awesome trader.

Awesome strategy!

I participated for 3 months, and over the course of the time there were 10 trades. The model never had more than 2 losses in a row before I joined. After I joined the first 3 trades were loses. One other time there were 3 loses in a row. Of the 10 trades, 7 of them were loses.

As one other review indicated, the sizing of the position was not well explained. I partly blame myself for this, because I did not research MES trade size. I found out after the first trade that 1 contract is actually a 5x position. So my investment used margin as it was 5x larger than I expected. On top of that it was a loss, so I was playing catch-up from the beginning.

I respect the trade managers style to "not shoot the lights out" because it also prevented a big loss.
Unfortunately it worked against me as indicated in previous paragraph. The style of the trades generally were to limit gains or losses to around 1% give or take a fractional amount. In assessing my position after 3 ".months, I realized that it would take approx 10 months to recover my losses and that does not include the monthly fee. And that assumes all trades over that time frame would be profitable. However, I do realize that I could choose to increase the sizing of the trades if the results began to improve in the next 3 months. That is a risk I just am not willing to take right now. -- maybe later I will be back.

One last comment - I agree with one of the other reviews written - saying the fee should be commensurate with the size of the portfolio - not the same as the Stella 100, which is based on a higher portfolio amount. It discourages the small investor.

started out ok but zero risk management. Vendor never closed their shorts as the market ripped higher. Could work out in the end if you are extremely comfortable with very high draw downs.

After loosing 23K, the system has no more signs of life
Now probably the system is no longer appealing.. so the creator abandons the system with no communication..
And C2 lets all this stuff happen

Excellent strategy. He consistently brings profit to his clients with good risk management.. Very good trader with very balanced mind set.

Very poor…lost 20 k… and no sense of stop loss.

Not good compared to other peers. Win rate is less compared to Loss. After paying the commission and fees not worth continuing.

Very good trader with very balanced mind set. He knows what he is doing.

Reduced from 3 stars to 1 star. No communication. Non existent stop-losses. Keeps doubling down on a losing short side bet and adds to losses.

Death by a thousand cuts, zero communication from trade leader. Look carefully at trade record to see how easy it can be with options to hide adding to losing positions.

The strategy works better in trending markets. It has not responded very well on this bumpy and volatile market now. It's becoming unattractive for small accounts (like mine , ~25k) with a monthly subscription of $98. It's unreasonable to me that strategy manager charges the same amount for 50 Plus and 500 Plus when clearly account sizes on those strategies will be different. I suggest to reduce monthly subscription for the 50 Plus for a better chance on small account owners.

Long entry points are good, but short entry points are not. The short side conviction and hence the position size's are larger creating big whipsaw's and drawdowns. It was a stable strategy before, but not anymore.

I lost so much money and there is no reliability in the strategy.

It's been a challenging year for most of us but although this one has had it's ups and downs, it's still sitting in the green overall. I can't complain when most of my peers are seeing 20-30% losses this year.

About half a year of subscription and nearly -5% on the account return, excluding 200$/m fee on top of this. So I lost a few thousand again, which is better than losing 20k, like the last time, I was subscribed to a system with a very steady-looking P&L. Whatever the statistics are telling you, do not believe, you must set stop losses and cut losing performers asap. This strategy cannot cope with the current market. Maybe it is better in a steady market, but so are many others.

I checked out a lot of the strategies on Collective2 and some of them look like they make a lot of gains but some trade small caps, so it doesn't really seem feasible.
Overall, I wanted to find a Strategy that could outperform the inflation rate and this one hasn't failed me yet.
The only thing that I would like to see improvement from this strategy would be allowing us to scale to 500%.

Nice consistent system traded as described. Profitable both long and short.

Struggling to find winning but let's see ... as of now 50/50.

Keep away... not a good strategy.

This trader DESTROYED my account. I asked him specifically about his trading strategy if he uses stop loss with each trade and his risk management. He said he uses stop losses and limit loss to around $3,000 per trade, but turned out he doesn’t . So he is a LIAR!! He holds his position against 3-4% market moves!! I texted him back and he doesn’t give a clear answers. I don't understand his logic. Look at the drawdowns and you will see. Look at his other strategies his profile history. He is a very dangerous trader that is NOT HONEST and obviously cares just to get paid and doesn’t care about his subscribers. I want to know why he doesn’t trade his own funds then? STAY AWAY from Mark Andersson and subscribe with other responsible traders. I have other 4 strategies that made profits and he made large drawdowns to my account because he is DANGEROUS and BAD TRADER.

he probably had something in June: he disappeared leaving a lot of contract expiring in 2 strategies (that however means trades hadn't the stop)

I've had the pleasure of trading the Stella Capital 50 Plus strategy since October 2021. During this period, my returns have been much higher with this strategy than with my own trading efforts. This speaks not only to the Manager's skills at reading the market, but also his/her trading philosophy, in which he/she emphasizes the fundamentals of discipline, risk management, and positive expectancy. Drawing on this philosophy and decades of experience, the Manager is very transparent and conscientious about his/her thought process, and does not hesitate to acknowledge and learn from losses when they occur. As such, I have learned an immense amount from the Manager's trading emails, which alone are worth the subscription cost.

As I approach one year of trading this strategy, and as we enter a bear market, I'm convinced that the Stella Capital 50 Plus strategy is poised to succeed over the long term, irrespective of market conditions. I have found no other strategy that combines such exceptional market intuition with time-tested trading principles to deliver sustained alpha to traders large and small alike.

Trend following 2X the S&P long and short. Easy to trade manually as trades are infrequent. Results to date have been strong.

Lost lot of money, will keep the futures overnight and over the weekend. No clear strategy .

No communication. No reply message. Trader not frequently logged in.

Not what I expected.

Not good so far. if you subscribe, make sure you set a reasonable stop loss

Great price, great performance so far.

It's a strategy left to chance. The trader does not respond to the message.

I will give 5 stars to the strategy manager. He consistently brings profit to his clients. In a few cases, although his drawdown was higher, he knows how to bring the trade close to breakeven or profit.

I was looking for a little more activity to take advantage of the market volatility. Ended up cancelling.

Manager MISSING! Does not support the Strategy. He left the futures positions open despite these EXPIRED!!!!! A Fool.

The best i can imagine