So, here are some facts supporting my 1-star review. (1) with a current CAGR of 1673% per year (C2 calculates it a bit differently), it will take only 7.4 years for this strategy to take over the entire $130 Trillion global market. How long do you think this insanely over-leveraged trading can continue at this pace? (2) according to C2’s own published data, the strategy experienced a 93% drawdown on July 23. The strategy had a 2-contract @NQU6 long opened 7/23 07:45 and closed 7/23 16:12 for a realized −$5,455. The position was underwater by −$17,506 at its worst intraday moment (11:31 AM that day) before recovering most of the way back and closing at −$5,455. Reconstructing account equity at that instant (realized equity just before this trade, plus this trade’s own worst unrealized loss — there was no other position open concurrently that day) implies true mark-to-market drawdown at that instant: −$17,506, or −93.0%. Yet C2 only publishes an 18% MDD, even though the facts on July 23 have been brought to their attention. How long before another one of these blows up the model account, taking most of your accounts with it? (3) the manager is arrogant and lashes out at any criticism, even though his DCA/ Martingale behavior is obvious to see from a casual perusal of his trade details. (4) the manager’s previous drawdown history was not brought over from the manager’s Ninjatrader account – presumably there were even larger drawdowns in that history that are not being disclosed. All that being said, the strategy does look very exciting, doesn’t it? Attracting subscribers like moths to a flame.
I am disappointed with the performance of the option trades over the past month. In many cases, the trades showed a reasonable profit at some point, but the profit was not realized at the appropriate time, and the positions eventually declined into losses.
For example, in a recent QQQ options trade, the position reached a profit of approximately $1,000 before ultimately ending in a loss.
I would like to suggest that the system manager consider taking a reasonable profit when it becomes available, rather than waiting for a much larger “big bang” profit. Consistently capturing decent profits may help improve overall results and reduce the risk of profitable trades turning into losses.
The equity curve looked great so I decided I’d be in good hands with this strat. Also, the SM had 3 or 4 other systems in the top 10 of the Leaderboard. What wasn’t to like, right? Once I subscribed, though, I was pretty much continually in a state of anxiety with this system. The instruments traded and direction of trade didn’t make sense. The SM held onto trades for weeks and doubled down when things didn’t go as expected. This insistence on winning at all costs immobilized the strategy, preventing any further trading until the SM could eke out a couple hundred dollars to show some green to his customers. This latest hold-and-hope, the CAC40 long, is bleeding money, didn't make any sense as the markets are on edge with September rate cut seeming more and more unlikely and the war starting up again - and as usual the SM is holding on insisting for a win. Will he eventually get one? I’m not sticking around to find out.
A total disaster. Martingale type of strategy. The high winning rate is a serious red flag. The trader keeps on adding shares to losing positions. Stay away from it at all costs
This is undoubtedly the best system I've found on C2 ever. For this reason, the number of subscribers is so high that sometimes the number of contracts traded exceeds a thousand, and this can generate two problems: the actual execution price can deviate significantly from the trigger price of the system, and such massive orders visible in the book can generate automated trading interventions and stop taking that can invalidate the system's moves. But this is not the fault of the system, of course.
I agree with the previous investors that rated this strategy poorly.
As of summer 2026 the strategy focuses too much on volatile S&P500 tec stocks.
There is no proper diversification in other S&P500 stock sectors that are not overbought.
End of June/July 2026 the strategy almost crashed 40%. And it could have been even more.
The backtest is a joke. And the used put Options were useless, and even incrased the losses.
In the future this strategy might recover, but not without big drawdowns and volatility.
Next time it could be even a drawdown of more than 50%-60%.Nothing for the faint hearted.
I wouldn't recommend to anyone of my friends & family. Too risky.
System seems solid, well managed.
There's an edge here, taking advantage of price imbalaces acording to several strategies.
For Vaclav, I hope we keeps the system up, we need developers like him in the community and also to keep investigating new approaches.
This is a strategy for you IF you are OK with lower profit factor - meaning more frequent losers offset with big winner. I just got tired of all the red and occasional winner. And to cap it all off - C2 unreliability caused me to miss out on winners...Ugh. I digress about C2, and its lack of reliability.
This strategy was presented as a structured intraday MNQ strategy based on predefined entry windows and disciplined execution. For several months, the strategy manager followed that approach consistently.
However, when he deviated from the strategy at the beginning of July and the account suffered a 15%+ drawdown, he acknowledged the mistake, stated that he would return to the disciplined Banana Protocol, and I chose to trust him.
Unfortunately, this latest trade appears to be another complete departure from that protocol, a stop-loss-free short position in MNQ while the market was clearly breaking out of a squeeze, causing more than 35% drawdown so far. This is not the disciplined strategy I subscribed to, and it's extremely disappointing.
This strategy is no good. There are no stop losses in place. The stats quickly changed from max 16% drawdown over a supposed 10 year backtest, to all of a sudden -40% drawdown. The option trades are also terrible. He scammed everyone in with a discount coupon. Then most people on C2 lost a lot of money.
I have not used this strategy for long, so this comment may be biased. I liked the automation and transparency from the manager. I will give it some more time to mature before reusing.
It may have been bad timing but what I was seeing from my time subscribed was a slow painful drawdown (June-July 2026) so I unsubscribed. Other info on this strategy show good returns so my timing was just bad for this one and I didn't feel like waiting around for things to improve.
