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Turn Your Trading Strategy into a Listed Investment Product

Jeffrey Alldis

Your Trading Strategy

You already trade. Let’s turn your signals into an exchange-listed product investors can buy tomorrow.

 

Why Most Trading Strategies Stay Private

Even the most profitable strategies rarely become investable products, because launching a regulated fund used to require over €100,000 in legal setup and months of compliance hurdles.

The iMaps Signal Provider Model changes that.

We transform your trading signals into a collateral-backed, exchange-listed ETI (Exchange Traded Instrument) investors can purchase through established brokers and banks.

What You Bring

  • Your trading signals: systematic or discretionary
  • Your track record: results you’re ready to share with investors

While you focus on your strategy, we manage everything else.

What We Deliver

iMaps sets up and maintains the complete infrastructure:

1. Execution via Your Preferred Broker:

Trade through Interactive Brokers, ActivTrades, Vantage, or Coinbase – whichever platform fits your strategy best.

  • Interactive Brokers offers access to over 150 markets in 33 countries, supports algorithmic and multi-asset trading, and provides institutional tools like Trader Workstation and Risk Navigator.
  • ActivTrades offers CFDs on forex, indices, commodities, and shares, with spreads starting from 0.5 pips and zero commissions on forex trades.
  • Vantage provides over 1,000 CFDs, including forex, ETFs, and bonds, with spreads from 0.0 pips and trading via MetaTrader and TradingView.
  • Coinbase offers institutional crypto trading and custody for 250+ assets, with $320 million insurance and 24/7 trading access.

2. Legal Setup & Issuance:

Issued under an approved prospectus that enables public marketing and EU exchange listing.

3. Collateralisation & Independent Custody:

  • Each ETI is linked to a segregated portfolio, with assets pledged to a licensed security trustee for the benefit of investors.
  • Custody is handled by regulated brokers and custodians, fully independent from iMaps.

4. Exchange Listing & Daily Liquidity:

Your ETI listed on Börse Stuttgart (EUWAX) – the largest exchange-based segment for structured investment products in Europe.

The result: a listed security that investors can access through their existing bank or broker, for instance Interactive Brokers, Swissquote, UBS, etc.

Why Traders Choose iMaps

Built for active traders ready to scale their results.

  • Retail Public Offering Structure: Offer your strategy publicly.
  • Execution Choice: Trade on IB, ActivTrades, Vantage, or Coinbase.
  • Fast Launch: Go live in weeks instead of months.
  • The range of assets: over 150 global markets, including equities, bonds, ETFs, futures, FX, and 250+ crypto tokens.
  • Tax Advantages: ETI investors enjoy tax benefits compared to managed accounts.

Revenue Model

You monetize your strategy from day one:

  • 80% of all performance fees
  • 80% of management fees (once your ETI exceeds €500,000 in AuM)

(iMaps retains 20% to cover operational execution and compliance)

You set the fees:

✅ Up to 3% annual management fee
✅ Up to 30% performance fee (with high-water mark)

Who This Is For

Ideal for:

  • Traders on Interactive Brokers, ActivTrades, Vantage, or Coinbase
  • Portfolio managers scaling beyond private accounts
  • Quant developers automating systematic strategies
  • Trading educators and influencers with an audience

How It Works

  1. Share your model portfolio and trading approach
  2. Complete onboarding with our compliance team
  3. We structure and collateralize the ETI tracking your trading signals
  4. You deliver trading signals via your chosen platform
  5. We issue and list the ETI with daily liquidity
  6. Investors purchase ETI units. You earn management and performance-based fees.

Let’s Launch Your Strategy

You already have the skill. Now turn your trading into an exchange-listed investment product.

✅ Book a call with our structuring team
✅ Define your objectives
✅ Launch an ETI and build your track record

Your strategy deserves a global audience. iMaps makes it possible.

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