14 people in Ljubljana
The full team — engineering, quant, compliance, and client success — is based in one office in central Ljubljana, which keeps communication latency low and accountability clear.
About
Who Builds a Trading Terminal Around Risk Elimination?
The Collective was founded by former quantitative researchers who had experienced firsthand the cost of platforms that warn rather than prevent.
The Problem That Prompted The Collective
The Collective was incorporated in Ljubljana in 2021 by a team of four quantitative researchers and two infrastructure engineers who had, between them, worked at proprietary trading desks in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Vienna. The common frustration across those roles was the same: existing retail and semi-institutional platforms treated risk parameters as advisory rather than binding. A drawdown ceiling that could be overridden with two mouse clicks was not a ceiling — it was a suggestion. The founding team spent 18 months building an execution architecture where that override is technically impossible during a live session. By mid-2022, the terminal was handling live order flow for the founders' own capital. By the end of 2023, 47 external clients — individual traders, family offices, and two regulated fund managers in the EU — had migrated strategies onto the platform. Today the team in Ljubljana numbers 14 people: six engineers, three quantitative analysts, two client-success specialists, a compliance officer, and two operations staff.
How the Team Works and Where the Limits Are
The engineering and quant teams operate in one-week sprints with a public changelog published every Friday afternoon. Clients on the Desk and Institutional tiers receive the changelog by email and are invited to vote on the next sprint's feature priorities through a structured product-feedback portal. The Collective does not offer discretionary asset management, signal services, or investment advice of any kind — the terminal is a tool for automating and enforcing the user's own strategy, not a substitute for one. Backtesting results are simulations and are clearly labelled as such in every export; past simulation performance does not predict live execution outcomes, particularly in markets with structural regime changes. Support is delivered exclusively in English from the Ljubljana office during central European business hours; out-of-hours incident response for Institutional tier clients is handled by a designated on-call engineer, but general support queries submitted outside business hours are addressed the following morning. The team does not take on custom strategy development on behalf of clients, but the API is designed so that any Python-fluent quant can build and integrate a custom strategy within a working day.
The Collective in Numbers
Figures reflect the state of the platform as of Q1 2025.
Founded in 2021
Three years of iterative development, starting with the founders' own capital and expanding to external clients only after the execution architecture had been stress-tested across multiple high-volatility market events.
Clients in 9 EU countries
Active accounts span Slovenia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Poland — all operating under EU financial-technology and data-protection frameworks.
Zero unplanned session breaches
Since the hard-lock enforcement architecture was deployed in production, zero sessions have recorded a drawdown in excess of the configured ceiling — including during four documented high-volatility market events in 2023 and 2024.
Reach the Team in Ljubljana
For technical questions, onboarding enquiries, or partnership discussions, the support team is available on business days between 09:00 and 17:00 CET.
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