About
Hi, I’m Matthew, the founder of New Levels Trading. Wonderful to meet you!
My trading journey began in 2009, across Forex, binary options, and now futures, having had many ups and downs.
I have been a full-time trader for three years and am eager to share my love and knowledge of trading with all of you!
I have also taught myself to develop my own trading software and am the former developer/partner of TraderBot Marketplace.
Trading is no easy feat; it is simple, but that doesn’t make it easy! What can make it hard is the abundance of bogus content, empty promises, the real risk of loss, not to mention the emotional and psychological challenges.
Whether you are brand new to day trading, or you’ve been going around in circles for years, I can introduce (or re-introduce) the basics and can help keep things simple.
By focusing on what’s really important, and pursuing trading as a journey (not a destination), you can achieve new levels in your trading journey, lifestyle, and financial freedom!
It wasn’t always like this… not even in my first decade of my own trading journey…
Like many of you, I’ve faced the same challenges, gone down similar rabbit holes, and fought my own inner battles that every aspiring trader does.
There are many things I wish I’d known sooner as it would have cut my learning curve much shorter.
When I started out, I knew I did not want to be a wage slave!
My initial inspiration was a childhood story about a girl who was offered to be paid a fixed wage or to start with being paid two pennies and every day the pay would be squared. So the story goes, she ended up with $42 million after six days.
Sure, I knew this was an exaggerated story, but it taught me the power of compounding. My own thought was “how can I compound my money as fast and as quickly as possible?”. Then, I found Forex day trading.
Like most newbies, I turned to the Internet. There were thousands of videos making it look so easy! Of course, like fulfilling any dream, it is never as easy as it seems.
After falling down a few times, I turned to programming, determined to build the perfect algorithm to make money fast and easy while I slept.
That too, did not work out (though funnily enough, I did design trading software and made a good living from that for many years).
After many years I turned back to the challenge of day trading my own account, this time using futures. I was determined to find out what it really would take to make day trading work.
It was definitely possible… even though 95% fail, there’s a 5% who make it happen. What set them apart?
At this point, I knew better than to try to mechanize trading. After a thorough understanding of the many tools out there, I realized that simplicity was key.
After many months of trying simple approaches to trading, success still seemed elusive. So, I searched out feedback from other successful traders.
The common theme with all of them was keeping it simple, but more importantly, trading consistently. The problem was me all along, jumping from approach to approach!
I had to learn to control myself and stick with a few simple concepts and gradually improve over time. Since then, my trading has soared to new levels. To this day, I am still a work in progress, yet successful.
In this course, I am proud to share those concepts with you in your journey towards success!
In my journey, I learned a few things…
- I had to detach myself from “the money”; trading is a craft to be developed and focusing on this will generate money naturally forever
- We will never have certainty in the world of trading, as the best we can hope for is probabilities; by being consistent and using good risk management, we can stack those probabilities in our favor and money will be made
- Less is more, the simpler the better.
I created New Levels Trading because I want to simplify your trading journey.
By introducing a few basic concepts and a basic market framework, as well as risk management & psychological principles, I can save you from many wasted years and simplify the learning curve.
It is my hope to accelerate your own trading journey to achieve your dream results, so you can live your dream lifestyle!