The alternative alternative investment.

I have been a client, strategy follower and autotrader at Bluecap Trade for well over a decade. I have tried other approaches over the years, but Bluecap Trade is simply the best platform of its kind for vetting and following alternative investment strategies with your own money, and for autotrading those strategies at your preferred broker. Over the years they have worked with regulators, improved functionality, streamlined user experiences, and I have been impressed by their ability to keep everything very reliable in a complex environment where money is on the line and where that is not an easy task. Whenever I have had questions or minor issues, their support has responded within seconds, or, at worst, minutes, to help me out. They also refreshingly allow their more technical staff to be involved in conversations with users to answer more technical questions quickly. As with any relatively open platform, there are certain things (in this case, strategies and trade leaders) that most clients/subscribers would be well-advised to avoid. This is akin to low quality posts in any online forum, but the difference here is that, yes, you could lose money. Because of that, I would recommend Bluecap Trade to people who are willing to take responsibility for their own actions and choices and do their homework on which strategies they follow. For example, I wouldn't personally allocate my money to a strategy until I first at least had a message-based conversation with the trade leader, and made sure they had sufficient history and transparency in their methods such that I was comfortable with what I was getting. Far too often in the investing world, people will blame the platform, the strategy, their broker, or anything else they can find, in order to convince themselves it wasn't ultimately their own decisions that caused a loss. There are some excellent strategies with positive long term expectancy and low correlation to buy-and-hold market performance on Bluecap Trade, which is why I am still here after all these years and valuing its role in my investing life more than ever. This is typically expensive and hard to find in the investing world, and usually prohibitive to anyone who is not firmly in the "high net worth" category or higher. Bluecap Trade offers this at an unmatched value and with easy, flexible implementation. I felt the need to write this since I see many reviews where a customer clearly joined, greedily rolled the dice by choosing to follow a questionable strategy with too much leverage trying for a "get rich quick" outcome, and then blamed the platform when it didn't work out for them. These reviews are simply not worth your consideration other than as a reminder that any tool can be used incorrectly if one is not qualified to use it. If you want a platform that will put you in a bubble with guardrails and tell you what to do, Bluecap Trade is not for you. If you want an ability to access excellent strategies that provide top notch diversification benefits to a traditional investment portfolio in an environment that also happens to contain some not-so-excellent strategies, if you resist shooting yourself in the foot with short term over-leveraged greed, and are thoughtful about your decisions, then you will be thankful to be a member of Bluecap Trade.

I have been working with Bluecap Trade service for over 5 years as a trade leader. I have observed (and am observing) many interesting trading strategies. Many of them have crashed. However, many of them continue to successfully generate profits. I am (and have been) in contact with many private investors who are (or have been) my subscribers (have followed my strategies). Based on this, I would like to say that the Bluecap Trade service is a very accurate reflection of everything that is happening in the private trading and investing industry. Most trading strategy crashes are due to trading leaders wanting to show impressive results to gain followers to their strategies. This leads to excessive risk taking. A big risk is followed by a crash. Most private investor capital crashes are due to their desire to make big profits in a short period of time. They subscribe to strategies that show big profits with big risk. What follows is a crash. But I also see a lot of private investors who put together a portfolio of many conservative strategies. So they have little risk in each strategy and overall a very stable profitable portfolio. The Bluecap Trade service is constantly developing strategy analysis tools for investors. With a little time it is possible to create a very profitable and flexible portfolio. Investors lose money due to their incompetence in the area of selecting risk-appropriate strategies. Choose strategies that have been around for a long time (at least 6 months and have enough trades to analyse - at least 200). And preferably the trading leader follows his own capital to his strategy.

Offers some very good traders that may get excellent future results if you stick it out long term and don’t adjust trades. Really need a very strong trading background knowledge to identify the select few top traders who use solid risk management on each trade or you will lose lots of money fast due to leverage. Some of the best consistently profitable traders are not even easy to find, you have to find them through other peoples accounts. Beware when traders email you to try their strategy it’s often a huge scam. Not all past results shown were done in real trades, they could’ve been falsely simulated for months, and once trader convinces you to sign up based on essentially fake past results, you’ll lose everything within a month when they over leverage on a real trade with your real money, and baghold losing trades due to poor risk management. Also some traders look real good with their past results but will blow up your account plus more, once you sign up to them, they are just using strategies that temporarily got lucky as held in one direction or also could have been falsely simulated, (not all real trades) and are not skilled, and then they end up losing it plus more. Beware any traders with no description or details about trader, and where there are multiple past failed strategies. Thats a red flag. I suggest stick to daytrader strategies or bluecap.trade star strategies and those with reviews especially positive reviews. Most of the swing traders that baghold are generally the biggest problem, or those using daily options, illiquid penny type stocks, or unrealistic forex trades, which I have witnessed them blow up accounts already plus more. Don’t trade with money you can’t afford to lose. I strongly suggest simulating a trader for a few months before using real money to see if their results are true and consistent, and if you can stomach drawdowns depending on the traders risk tolerance. You need a very large account size if you are going to trade multiple strategies to diversify.

I've been a customer on Bluecap as a subscriber for about half a year before I decided to try being a trade leader also. I'm decently successful as a trader, so the thought of making extra money on top of trading sounded good ! It worked out great. Everything is legit, I am paid for subscribers, and the Bluecap system makes everything work.

Quick response to my questions - excited to contiue to use the platform