The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Matthew J. Slabosz is an Australian retail trader and programmer behind the Zen & The Art of Trading brand, which spans The Art of Trading YouTube channel (~119k subscribers), the Pine Script Mastery course, a trading blog, and The Art of Trading podcast. A former audio-engineering student who left university in 2015 after a chronic injury ended his music career, he began trading around 2015-2016 and says he has been consistently profitable since roughly 2018, crediting mentors including Courtney Smith, Steven Hart, and Nick Radge. His content focuses on coding, backtesting, and automating indicators and strategies in TradingView's Pine Script, and he has published 38 open-source scripts to about 17.7k followers on TradingView. He describes himself as a systematic momentum and trend-following stock trader managing several hundred thousand dollars of his own capital, running the education business with his partner Jade.
