agree with the points you make. fortunately, the ninjatrader ecosystem exists and it provides a very nice platform for developers to lease out their strategies.
Trade replication sites does not work well with scalpning strategies as the added latency screws up results. I believe there now exists other competitors to C2 which offers automatic replication support for major brokers. Taking a 50% cut of subscriber fees is pretty harsh imo.
My 2025 thinking on C2: C2's business model is to screw both subscribers and publishers alike, by matching dreamers with dreamers, and taxing subscribers a combined > 50% of income for the "service" rendered after all fees are accounted for in both ends, i.e. declaring they're the important part, not your supposed edge. Maybe they make money despite high churn. IMO if at all possible, use something else, if you're anyway intending to deal with the complexity and moral hazard of selling low or no edge strats to retail. Oh yeah they have a few big account serious people on there as well, but I presuppose its a minority of their revenue.
Yep, pretty much due to them being a natural monopoly for a long time so they haven't got any real competitors offering a equal service.
You posted this OP almost a year ago. If you continued to have a 6 months' cum return of 242%, you don't need C2, don't need subscribers. You were essentially printing money. True?
Majority of these are for B-Book brokers offering only synthetic instruments like CFD, FX, PMs, synthetic ETFs and synthetic stocks shares. Difference is C2 is a copy trading platform that trades real instruments on real exchanges like NYSE, Nasdaq, CME and CBOE.