Trades by Matt
The hardest-working stream in futures, Matt Miller has opened the Nasdaq live every weekday for years, turned twenty copied accounts into a prop-firm legend, and now builds his own trading platform.
Compiled by MarketFramework editorial · Last reviewed Oct 8, 2026
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Trades by Matt is the channel of Matt Miller, a US-based Nasdaq futures day trader who has streamed live at the market open every weekday since 2017 and has roughly 240,000 YouTube subscribers. He is known for copy-trading twenty prop-firm accounts at once, a "base hits" trading philosophy, prop-firm explainer videos, and Tradester, the trading platform he is building.
Trades
Nasdaq futures
NQ · some ES
Style
Base hits
scalping at the open
Streaming since
2017
YouTube channel · Aug 2017
Based
United States
YouTube
241K
subscribers · Oct 2026
Discord
28.7K
members · TBM’s Good Gains
Streams live
Mon–Fri · from 9:20 am ET
Next stream: Mon–Fri · from 9:20 am ET · open channel
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BEST KNOWN FOR
The daily live NQ stream and the twenty-account stack
Matt’s channel is built around a free live stream of Nasdaq futures at the market open, Monday to Friday. It has run for years and now carries a "crew" of other streamers under his brand. The work he is cited for most often came in 2024, when he copy-traded twenty $50,000 Apex accounts through Sierra Chart and published a run of $40,000 payouts every ten days. His most-watched 2026 video explains the philosophy behind it, "base hits." In July 2026 he announced he was going "multi-prop" across four firms while building his own trading platform, Tradester.
IN MATT'S WORDS
“I just kept telling myself daily, go back to what got you here. Base hits, no greed, extreme patience, it’s ok if you don’t see trades.”
X, May 2024
“The base-hit approach is not changing. The setup is just getting a lot bigger. More chaos. More moving parts. More upside. More fun. Same stream. More firms. A lot more accounts.”
X, July 2026
“We as traders must deal with charts, pnl, but also our Emotional Capital. It’s like a gas tank. We deplete it everyday and need some in the tank in order to execute and think through things well.”
X, May 2024
Trades by Matt's latest video
“Funded Futures and Crypto Perps Day Trading | LIVE Nasdaq Futures Prop Firm Trading” · published Oct 16, 2026 · 4.5K views
Who is Trades by Matt?
Matt Miller, who publishes as Trades by Matt, is a Nasdaq futures day trader based in the United States. He started with penny stocks as a teenager, taught himself largely from YouTube, and left a corporate job to trade full time. He tells that story in a July 2026 video, "How I Became a Full Time Trader." The channel opened in August 2017, and his most-viewed video, a 2020 strategy walkthrough, has passed 600,000 views.
What defines the channel is routine: a free live stream of NQ futures at the market open, Monday to Friday, followed by recaps on a second channel. In 2026 the stream grew into a full schedule of "crew" shows broadcast under his brand, The Joz Show and The Riha Show among them. Feedspot ranks the channel second on its list of futures-trading YouTubers, and the companion Discord, TBM’s Good Gains, is free and has close to 29,000 members.
His reputation among prop-firm traders was made in 2024, when he copy-traded twenty $50,000 Apex Trader Funding accounts through Sierra Chart’s trade copier and posted a series of $40,000 payouts roughly every ten days. By his count that came to $240,000 in payouts over sixty trading days. The run produced his second most-watched video, "How to Pass Prop Firm Evaluations," and a Words of Rizdom podcast episode titled after a remark that ICT had called him the best day trader on YouTube. The same year he entered the Robbins World Cup futures division with a $10,000 live account and sat second on the leaderboard in its first month.
In January 2025 he announced Tradester, a web-based futures trading platform with tick data and a multi-account copier that he stresses is neither a prop firm nor a brokerage. It remains in private beta. In July 2026 he said he was "officially going multi-prop," spreading his stack across Apex, Tradeify, Lucid Trading and Take Profit Trader, and reported passing five Tradeify evaluations within days. His code TBM gives his audience discounts at all four, and his comparison site, tbm.gg, gathers them in one place.
What keeps traders coming back is that none of it is packaged. Losing sessions stream alongside winning ones, and the "base hits" mantra is repeated until it sticks. The crew shows that now share his channel are a measure of how much of the futures streaming community he has quietly built. ICT called him the best day trader on YouTube; his audience would call him the most honest.
How Matt trades
Base hits, not home runs
The philosophy Miller returns to most often is the baseball metaphor in his most-watched 2026 video: take small, repeatable profits and let consistency do the work. In his own words from 2024, "base hits, no greed, extreme patience, it’s ok if you don’t see trades." In practice that meant a daily target of roughly $400 per account across the twenty accounts he ran. The discipline came from refusing to press for more once the target was reached.
He pairs that with an idea he calls emotional capital, a gas tank that every session drains and that has to be protected so there is enough left to think clearly. Losing sessions are streamed and recapped alongside winning ones, which third-party profiles single out as the channel’s distinguishing habit.
The open, the tools and the theories
He trades the Nasdaq open, scalping NQ intraday with occasional ES on Sierra Chart, a platform he moved to from Tradovate in 2023 and has documented extensively. The named techniques in his "TBM Theories" series are the Wick Test, a rejection-based entry off a candle wick, and the Initial Balance, the opening range used to frame the day. VWAP bands and depth-of-market entries fill out the toolkit.
The multi-account structure is the other half of the method. Rather than sizing up a single account, he copies one clean setup across many identical funded accounts so that the edge is repeated rather than leveraged. His prop-firm guide calls it "the stack play." As with every trader profiled here, the approach is described from his own material and is not a recommendation; futures trading involves substantial risk of loss.
See how the wider prop-trading field is positioned in NQ while you study a method like this: MarketFramework's Positioning Edge shows live long/short splits across ES, NQ, MES and MNQ from real evaluation and funded accounts, and Prop Backtest scores strategies against prop-firm rules.
Trades by Matt's career timeline
Opens the Trades by Matt YouTube channel in August. source
Publishes "BEST DAY TRADING STRATEGY (Day Trade like a Pro)," still his most-viewed video. source
Moves from Tradovate to Sierra Chart; launches the Trades By Matt Recaps channel in December. source
Enters the Robbins World Cup futures division with a $10,000 live account in January; holds second on the interim leaderboard in the first month. source
Copy-trades twenty $50K Apex accounts and reports a series of $40,000 payouts; appears on the Words of Rizdom podcast in May. source
Announces Tradester, a web-based futures trading platform with a multi-account copier, in January. source
Publishes "How I became consistently profitable (Base Hits)" in February, his third most-viewed video. source
Goes "multi-prop" across Apex, Tradeify, Lucid and Take Profit Trader in July; crew shows join the channel schedule. source
Publishes "What 10 Years of Trading Actually Teaches You" (16 September), his most-watched upload of the month; moves to themed daily streams, from five-account prop sessions to teaching a newcomer live (late September). source
Trades by Matt's videos
LATEST
Funded Futures and Crypto Perps Day Trading | LIVE Nasdaq Futures Prop Firm Trading
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Trades by Matt and Crew Live All Day Trading! | LIVE Nasdaq Futures Trading
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BEST DAY TRADING STRATEGY (Day Trade like a Pro)
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How I became consistently profitable (Base Hits)
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Trades By Matt Day Trading Strategy
SHORTS
Prop firms Matt works with
All four firms appear with code TBM in the descriptions of videos published 9–14 September 2026 and on his comparison site tbm.gg. He announced on 13 July 2026 that he actively trades accounts at each of them.
We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.
TRADES BY MATT: FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Trades by Matt trade?
Nasdaq-100 futures (NQ), scalped intraday at the market open on Sierra Chart, with some E-mini S&P 500 trading. He runs the same setup across many funded prop-firm accounts using a trade copier.
What is Trades by Matt best known for?
A free live NQ stream every weekday at the open, the 2024 run in which he copy-traded twenty Apex accounts and reported a series of $40,000 payouts, the "base hits" philosophy, and prop-firm explainer videos. He is also building Tradester, a futures trading platform.
What is Trades by Matt’s net worth?
He has not disclosed his net worth, and MarketFramework does not estimate net worth for the traders it profiles.
Which prop firm does Trades by Matt use?
Apex Trader Funding, Tradeify, Lucid Trading and Take Profit Trader. He said in July 2026 that he was going "multi-prop" across all four, and each appears with code TBM in his video descriptions as of September 2026.
What is Tradester?
A web-based futures trading platform Miller announced in January 2025, built around tick data and a multi-account trade copier. He stresses that it is neither a prop firm nor a brokerage; it is in private beta with a waitlist at tradester.com.
SOURCES
- Trades by Matt: YouTube channelaccessed Sep 14, 2026
- tbm.gg: Matt’s guide to futures prop firmsaccessed Sep 14, 2026
- X, twenty-account payout update (May 2024)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- X, going multi-prop (July 2026)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- X: Tradester announcement (January 2025)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- Words of Rizdom podcast: EP.111 (2024)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- WritoFinance, profile (July 2026)accessed Sep 14, 2026
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