Here’s how to earn completely passive income if you’re already a half-decent investor
Share your investing strategy with others and get paid to do so
Only 0.1% of people fit all of these criteria. If you’re reading this, you don’t fit either:
- You have (or know how to create) a systematic trading strategy
- You can deploy your strategy and let it run in a (mostly) hands-off manner
- You have the money to profit from your strategy
Even if you’re somehow able to earn an unprecedented 50% per year, you’re not going to make more money than an intern at Meta unless your mommy and daddy are Bill and Melinda Gates.
But, if you DO have such a strategy, and you’re willing to share it with the world, here’s how you can earn extra income by doing so.
Let’s Take a Step Back and Discuss Public Portfolios
Before we discuss the monetization aspects, let’s take a step back and talk about what I’ve discussed previously.
On January 12th, I released my article on “algorithmic copy trading”. Unlike traditional copy trading platforms, the idea is that people can take ideas from a library of transparent, rules-based algorithmic trading strategies.
These strategies are publicly available here. Users can browse the library, copy them, and make their own modifications. They can test them via backtesting or paper-trading. And then, they can share their new creations to the community, or keep it to themselves.
This was the phase 1 launch. Investors can freely share their strategies with a wider community for little incentive other than to be a good person.
Unfortunately, the average person is selfish. And thus, I’m releasing a new incentive to encourage these people to share their trading strategies.
That incentive is passive income.
A way for successful traders to earn passive income
The UI for Monetized Copy TradingNow, instead of being motivated by the intrinsic desire to teach others, successful traders can earn passive income from their trading strategy.
Getting started is very simple.
1. Connect with Stripe
First, you will click the “Connect with Stripe” button from above. After clicking it, you’ll be guided through an onboarding process where you provide your personal information (name, address, phone number) along with details about your business if applicable. This step not only verifies your identity but also sets the foundation for secure, regulated transactions.
The Stripe Connect UI2. Onboarding
Stripe asking for details about your businessStripe will then go on to ask more personal questions about you and your business. When you get to the “industries” question, it’s important to remember that the purpose of this monetized feature isn’t to give financial advice – It’s to share your portfolio with a larger community of traders for educational and informational purposes. Thus, the appropriate industry is software and NOT something like financial services (unless you’re a registered financial advisor).
3. Verification and Fee Structure
After going through the process, Stripe will verify the information. After a few minutes, you’ll be approved, and you can start monetizing your trading strategies!
The UI to configure the fees for the portfolioWith this, you can customize your fee to be whatever you want. With this, you can take your successful strategies and earn money from other traders who want to learn from experience.
The platform operates on a commission-based fee structure that varies based on your subscription plan. Premium subscribers retain a higher percentage of their earnings, while standard accounts have a higher commission rate. This tiered approach rewards the most committed strategy creators while still offering an accessible entry point for newer traders who want to test the monetization waters.
The subscription fee varies from 5% to 50% depending on your subscription planBy monetizing your expertise, you’re not just generating an extra income stream — you’re also building a reputation as a trusted strategist. Traders can turn this into a steady source of recurring revenue, reinforcing their credibility and opening doors to new financial opportunities.
As you can imagine, this has massive benefits for the person willing to share their strategy. But the person copying the strategy also has some benefits as well.
A way for traders to get access to high-quality investing ideas
From the copier’s perspective, this feature benefits them because higher-quality traders are now more willing to share their investing strategies.
The UI for copying a strategyFor copiers, subscribing to these proven strategies means they bypass the long, costly learning curve. This approach not only saves time and reduces errors but also gives them immediate access to insights that have already been battle-tested in the market.
Copiers also benefit because they have the ability to search through an expansive library of strategies.
They can search by popularity, follower count, and performance. If they choose to search by performance, they can look at the short-term performance (less than 3 months) or long-term performance (all-time). Finally, they can filter by trading type, and only subscribe to traders who are putting their money where their mouth is and deploying their strategy live.
The sort and filter options in the public librariesThe best part is that the library contains mostly free strategies, so it’s difficult for people to abuse the system by deploying low-quality, substance-less trading strategies. Regardless if it’s monetized or not, traders can see the history of the strategy over time. This will naturally lead to a system where only the best of the best strategies are monetized because who would subscribe to a strategy worse than the free alternatives?
Finally, this system allows great traders to combine insights from multiple sources. By copying from a few great traders, a person can take all of the ideas that they’ve learned, apply them in new ways, and potentially create an even better investing strategy!
Important Considerations for Strategy Creators
Before sharing your trading strategy, consider these important factors:
- Intellectual Property: Once shared, others may adapt your core ideas — only share strategies you’re comfortable having in the public domain. You can’t un-share a portfolio once you’ve decided to monetize it.
- Performance Expectations: Market conditions change, and past performance doesn’t guarantee future results. Be transparent about the conditions under which your strategy performs best. Ideally, your strategy accounts for a wide range of market conditions.
- Reputation Risk: Your public performance record becomes part of your professional profile. Only share strategies you have confidence in over the long term.
Nevertheless, I believe this opportunity is massive for traders of all skill-level. Getting started is risk-free, so what do you have to lose?
Concluding Thoughts
The NexusTrade platform is the easiest way to earn passive income as a successful trader. Getting started is three simple steps:
- Select Your Best Strategy — Click the Share icon next to the portfolio with your most consistent performance and unique edge in the market.
- Connect Your Stripe Account — Follow the simple integration process outlined above to enable payments.
- Set Your Price — Start with a competitive rate that reflects your strategy’s value while attracting initial subscribers.
Share your insights, grow your reputation, and get paid for the expertise you’ve worked so hard to develop. Your strategy could be exactly what other traders are searching for.
