Profitly

Name

Profitly

Legal name

TLC Media LLC

Website

https://profit.ly

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Trading Platform

NAICS

Commodity Contracts Intermediation (52316)

SIC

Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (6200)

akta.pro primary industry

Exchange Odds, Pricing, Trading Tools & APIs (MPAEAIAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Price Comparison, Deals, Cashback & Loyalty Shopping Platforms (BPAMAGAH)

Keywords

• Social trading platform
• Trading education
• Penny stock trading
• Trade verification
• Trader community

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Premium Subscription Content: Subscription-based access to premium trading content, analysis, and guru-specific insights
2. Educational Products Sales: Sale of DVD study guides, books, and educational materials with lifetime access
3. Newsletter Subscriptions: Guru-specific trading newsletters with market analysis and trade alerts

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Profit.ly operates a social trading platform where traders and investors publicly share all their trades (winners and losers) across stocks, options, futures, forex, and crypto. The platform offers verified trade tracking with broker integrations, guru-led leaderboards, premium subscription content, guru newsletters (e.g., TimChallenge), and physical educational products such as DVD study guides and books with lifetime access.

Product overview

Profit.ly is a social trading platform that operates as a community-driven ecosystem connecting traders and investors. The core platform enables users to share, track, and verify trades across multiple asset classes including stocks, options, futures, forex, and cryptocurrency. The product portfolio includes the main social trading platform with leaderboards and trade verification, Premium subscription content offering exclusive guru insights, and physical products (DVDs and study guides) focused on trading education. The platform differentiates through transparency, requiring traders to show all trades including both winners and losers. Additional offerings include a mobile app available on iOS and Android, and the Tim Sykes penny stock education program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Profit.ly Social Trading Platform A community-driven social trading platform where individual retail traders and investors share trades in real time, follow top performers (gurus), view leaderboards, and learn from verified trading history across multiple asset classes.
• Premium Content Subscriptions Recurring subscription offering giving individual traders access to exclusive premium trading analysis, educational content, and guru-specific insights.
• Trading DVDs and Study Guides Physical and digital educational products, including DVD study guides and books, that retail traders can purchase to learn trading strategies, with lifetime access included.
• TimChallenge Trading Newsletter Subscription newsletter from Tim Sykes providing penny stock trade alerts, market analysis, and educational content to individual retail traders.

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Tim SykescoreGTM or Marketing PartnerLead guru/trading educator and influencer associated with the platform. Drives user acquisition through his personal brand, newsletters (TimChallenge), and affiliate marketing. Primary face of the Profitly brand.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Collective2: Platform where traders publish strategies and followers can auto-copy; similar guru/follower monetisation dynamic and verified-track-record mechanic as Profitly.
• Stocktwits: Social network explicitly built for retail traders to share ideas, charts, and trades across stocks and crypto. Most direct comparable to Profitly's community-driven trade-sharing model and transparent retail-trader social feed.
• Myfxbook: Social forex-trading platform with verified trade linking, leaderboards, and community signal-sharing — direct methodological parallel to Profitly's verified-trade + leaderboard architecture, narrowly focused on FX.
• Trade Ideas: AI-driven retail-trading intelligence platform with active social/idea-sharing and daily trade feeds. Comparable as a trading-tools-plus-community subscription product aimed at active self-directed traders.
• Tradervue: Trade journaling and verified performance tracking for active traders with community sharing. Closely mirrors Profitly's broker-linked verification and trade-history transparency value proposition.
• Zulutrade: Copy-trading and social-trading network with ranked signal providers and followers. Operates the same multi-asset guru-follower model Profitly replicates with a brokerage-integrated approach.
• Investors Underground: Subscription-based day-trading chatroom and education service in the same active-trader community/influencer-led niche; comparable monetisation (subscription + educational content) and audience overlap.

Broad incumbents

• TradingView: Dominant charting and trading-ideas platform with a heavily social component (community ideas, follower feeds) covering stocks, options, futures, forex, and crypto. Broad incumbent in the same retail-trader social/analytics space Profitly occupies.
• eToro: Multi-asset brokerage with a built-in social feed, copy-trading, and Popular Investor program that mirrors Profitly's guru-follower mechanic. Larger incumbent operating an actual brokerage plus the social layer Profitly replicates via external broker integrations.
• TipRanks: Investor research and analyst-tracking platform with social/follow elements and trader performance tracking. Adjacent incumbent that overlaps with Profitly's verified-track-record framing.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/profitly
• Facebookfacebook.com/Profitly-184570591583811
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tlc-media-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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