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About Michael Whitman

Michael Whitman Michael Whitman · Trading since 2017, full-time since 2020 · Published 2026-09-05 · Updated · Reviewed

Michael Whitman started learning to trade in 2017 and has traded full-time since 2020. Before that he was a marketing manager. His YouTube channel, running since May 2017, has 137,033 subscribers and 44.8 million lifetime views as of 23 September 2026, and he writes every page on this site.

Who writes this

I’m Michael Whitman. I started learning to trade in 2017 and I’ve traded full-time since 2020.

Before that I was a marketing manager. That matters more than it sounds — my job was reading numbers and reporting honestly on what they said, including when they said something nobody wanted to hear. That habit is most of what I brought to trading, and it’s most of what this site is.

What I actually trade

Options, stock, and Bitcoin futures. I’m not a one-market specialist and I don’t pretend to be.

I’m still growing an account, not sitting on one. When I say I trade for a living, I mean it pays the bills — not that I’ve solved the market.

What I got wrong first

When I started learning I was, in my own words at the time, a complete idiot. I bought indicators because they looked impressive on a chart. I marked levels after the move had already happened and called it analysis. I learned the settings before I learned what problem the settings were solving.

Most of this site exists because of that. Nearly every page has a section on what the idea looks like when it fails, because that’s the part nobody taught me and the part that actually decides whether an idea makes or loses money.

The channel, in numbers you can check

These figures are read from YouTube Studio (Analytics, Lifetime) for the channel @michaelwhitman, as of 23 September 2026. The subscriber count is public on the channel page; the views and watch time are Studio’s lifetime totals.

Measure As of 23 Sep 2026 (YouTube Studio)
Subscribers 137,033
Lifetime views 44.8 million (44,808,613)
Lifetime watch time 3.9 million hours
Channel’s first data 22 May 2017
Most-viewed tutorial 317,051 views

I started learning to trade in 2017 and have traded full-time since 2020. The channel started the same year, so its whole history is public and dated: every video carries its upload date, and anyone can scroll back to the first one.

The most-viewed tutorial on the channel is Ultimate SMART MONEY CONCEPTS Tutorial (Lux Algo), published 14 February 2023, at 317,051 views as of 23 September 2026. The channel’s single most-viewed video is a 2021 Dogecoin livestream, not a tutorial, which is why the tutorial is named separately here.

The tutorials worth starting with

These are the channel’s most-watched teaching videos. View counts are from the YouTube Studio lifetime export of 11 August 2026, except the first, which is from 23 September 2026.

The channel covers indicators, market structure, and the platforms people actually use. Where a page on this site covers something I’ve demonstrated on video, the page links to the exact minute in the video where I do it.

That’s deliberate. You should be able to watch me do the thing rather than take my word for it.

What I am not

I’m not an investment adviser and nothing here is personal advice. I don’t know your account, your timeframe, or what you can afford to lose, so I can’t tell you what to do with any of it — and I’m not licensed to.

I don’t publish signals, I don’t offer one-to-one coaching, and I don’t run a private group. What I publish, I publish to everyone at once, on a schedule.

I never quote win rates, profit figures, or account returns — mine or anyone else’s. Not because they’d be unflattering, but because there is no honest way to present them: I can’t know what any reader would have done with the same idea, and a number without that context is a claim I can’t stand behind.

How this site is written

Every page carries at least one figure from research I’ve actually done — a study of 24,971 trading videos, my own published analytics, and forward-tested screens. Where a figure appears, the file it came from is named.

The full method, including how these pages get made and checked, is on the methodology page. How pages are reviewed and corrected is in the editorial policy, and every factual correction is listed, dated, in the corrections log. The largest study behind the figures is written up in What 24,971 trading videos reveal (2026).

Where else to find me

Everything above is a claim on my own website, which is worth exactly what any such claim is worth. These are the accounts where I actually publish, so you can check it rather than take it:

Same person on all of them. The channel is the one that matters - it is where the work is, and it is public, dated and countable in a way a bio never is.

Getting in touch

The fastest way to reach me is a comment on a video. I read them.

This page is educational, not financial advice. Test every idea on your own charts before risking money.