It is really simple: 1. It should be/is up to the vendor to decide if he wants to publish this number or not. If they want to, they can post it in their forum. Otherwise it is not our business. 2. Systems shouldn't be choosen just by popularity, but according to its profile fitting your needs. 3. The number actually fluctuates wildly, and people would draw the wrong conclusion by looking at them jumping up and down in a short period of time. Good developers earn between $10,000 and $15,000 per month. The very best (a handful) earn over $20,000 per month. You just simply CAN NOT know, since you don't know the # of subscribers...
I have recently started posting trades on Collective2 with 2 systems. I'm not going to identify them now at the the risk of being self serving and promotional. However, in 3 months or so, I will regardless of my performance. Despite the reporting errors on C2 with Ninja, I am not going to change my modus operandi to accomodate C2's shortcomings and "dress up" the numbers. In other words, I will continue to use Ninja for my live account and I'll let the chips fall where they will as far as C2 is concerned, the slippage and bad reported fills notwithstanding. In my opinion, what one sees on C2 for my systems is an absolute worst case scenario that could be achieved if one is autotrading these systems; in efffect, the baseline for hypothetical results. Stay tuned.
Skewed to the right. You can see the APD distribution, and let that be your guide when you form the percentiles.
You got it, but it gets to a bigger point that we also have absolutely no way to change our recommendations.