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Matthew Mickey

Founder & CEO

Data-Driven Trader | Former Institutional Desk Leader | U.S. Army Officer (Ret.) | Veteran Advocate

Matthew Mickey is the Founder and CEO of The Daily Profiler. With deep experience managing collateral and margin exposure on Wall Street—and a leadership foundation forged as a U.S. Army Officer—Matthew delivers a rare blend of tactical grit and analytical mastery to today's trading landscape. Before launching the firm, he held a senior risk and operations role at a top-tier institutional trading desk, supporting the launch of the U.S. T1-Clearance & Settlement platform. His remit included FedWire, DTCC, and repo sponsorship risk, giving him an intimate understanding of the critical infrastructure that underpins real capital flows.

Bridging the gap between Wall Street operations and retail trading, Matthew leverages precision-based analytics to empower traders to treat their craft as a business. As the author of The Daily Profiler Methodologies, he focuses on edge development through measured data. He pioneered the firm's "Quant-First" execution framework, introducing innovations such as Behavioral Time Structuring and MAE/MFE Conditioning to help traders align their risk with verified volatility metrics rather than prediction.

Beyond the charts, Matthew remains committed to "those still in the fight." He actively serves as a mentor and advocate through Still Serving Veterans (SSV.org), a nonprofit helping transitioning servicemembers build purpose-driven civilian careers. Whether through speaking engagements, mental health advocacy, or donating curriculum access for skill development, Matthew ensures that veterans have the resources to navigate career shifts and financial independence.

Featured by the U.S. Army in "From Homeless to Green to Gold," Matthew's story is a blueprint for transformation—proof that data-driven edge, professional discipline, and a service-first mindset can co-exist and thrive.

"Replace speculation with statistical edge. That's how professionals trade."

Michael Smith

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Intraday Specialist | Software Developer | U.S. Air Force First Sergeant (Ret.)

Michael retired as a First Sergeant from the United States Air Force with over 21 years of dedicated service. During his career, he served as a principal enlisted advisor, overseeing the health, morale, welfare, and readiness of thousands of personnel across multiple large-scale squadrons. His service included seven deployments supporting operations including Southern Watch, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, Inherent Resolve, and Spartan Shield, where he honed the unshakeable discipline, precise execution, and strategic planning skills that now define his trading career.

Upon retiring, Michael transitioned into the retail trading space, where he quickly identified a critical gap. He observed that many retail traders were underserved by existing tools and often taken advantage of by a predatory market that thrives on the uninformed. Refusing to accept the status quo, he immersed himself in the power of statistics and intraday market mechanics.

Today, Michael is an intraday trader who relies strictly on statistical probability rather than speculation. As a lead contributor to the Pack Trade Group, he began bridging the gap between trading and technology by developing custom TradingView indicators to support the community's Bootcamp curriculum.

Out of this necessity, he created The Daily Profiler Trading Journal. After realizing that no commercially available solution could adequately support the rigorous, data-driven methodology taught in the Bootcamp, he built his own. The Daily Profiler is the result of that vision—an enterprise-grade journaling solution designed to empower traders to treat their trading not as a gamble, but as a business backed by objective statistics and professional execution.

"The market preys on the uninformed. We arm traders with statistics."

Arnold Kopping

Head of Data Science (External)

AI Orchestrator | Engineering Physicist | Machine Learning Pioneer

Based in Northern Sweden, Arnold brings the rigorous analytical framework of an Engineering Physics background and over 26 years of professional development experience to the financial markets. A father of two and a lifelong technologist, he combines a quarter-century of complex system architecture with five years of active trading, blending historical statistics with live price action and volume confirmation.

Arnold's technical pedigree is extensive and diverse. From building proprietary search engines and large-scale media monitoring systems to prototyping embedded hardware, he has consistently operated at the leading edge of technology. Most recently, he founded a digital signage company that was acquired by a major Swedish retail group in 2024.

While he began his career writing code, Arnold's focus has evolved from manual programming to high-level AI orchestration. With a background in machine learning dating back to 2000—spanning from early search algorithms to modern price-action transformers—he specializes in data mining and feature engineering. Today, he leverages this expertise to build the statistical tools and dashboards that power the group, utilizing AI to turn raw market noise into actionable, data-driven signals.

"Turn market noise into mathematical signals. Let the data speak."

Andrew Babcock

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Self-Taught Developer | Product Architect | Market Methodology Specialist

Hailing from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Andrew Babcock is a self-taught developer who transforms complex market methodologies into battle-tested, production-ready code. Without formal credentials or institutional backing, Andrew builds software with the understanding that every dollar matters, every signal must prove itself, and every trader deserves professional-grade tools.

Andrew's development philosophy is rooted in pragmatism and real-world trading requirements. He specializes in translating sophisticated trading frameworks into intuitive, reliable software that traders can actually use under pressure. His code doesn't just work—it performs in the high-stakes environment where bad data, poor UX, or system failures can cost traders real money.

As Chief Product Officer, Andrew ensures that The Daily Profiler platform remains focused on what matters: giving traders the structure, clarity, and analytical tools they need to treat trading as a business. He bridges the gap between theoretical methodology and practical execution, building systems that assume nothing and verify everything.

"Build tools that assume every trade matters. Because it does."

Justun Steeves

Head of Operations Strategy (External)

Banking Veteran | Risk Management Specialist | Operations Strategist

With two decades of experience in banking and financial operations, Justun Steeves brings institutional-grade risk management and operational discipline to retail trading. His extensive background in credit analysis, client strategy, and operational frameworks provides the foundation for transforming complex trading concepts into executable, repeatable processes.

Throughout his banking career, Justun developed expertise in risk assessment, client portfolio management, and operational efficiency—skills that translate directly into building robust trading frameworks. He understands that professional trading requires the same operational rigor and risk controls that govern institutional financial operations.

Engaged as an external Strategic Advisor on operations and risk, Justun contributes the systematic frameworks and operational perspective that help separate professionals from gamblers. He advises on operational protocols that remove emotion from trading decisions, supporting mechanical execution grounded in verified statistical probabilities.

"Professional trading demands institutional discipline. No exceptions."

Selcuk Aklan

Head of AI & Quantitative Research (External)

AI & Autonomous Systems Engineer | Algorithmic Trader | Published ML Researcher

Selcuk Aklan is an AI and technology specialist whose career spans the frontiers of machine learning, computer vision, and autonomous systems. Previously leading digital assistant R&D and building production-grade AI prototypes in the automotive sector, he honed the precision engineering, pattern recognition, and systematic execution that now define his approach to the financial markets.

His technical foundation runs deep. Across perception systems, automated driving, data-centric consulting, and advanced software engineering, Selcuk has consistently operated at the intersection of research and real-world application. He co-authored scientific publications in applied machine learning and visual localization, earning recognition in both academic and industrial circles for translating emerging AI capabilities into production-ready solutions.

Alongside his industry career, Selcuk independently developed algorithmic trading systems and quantitative approaches for the financial markets over several years. A self-taught trader and system builder, he brings the same analytical rigor that drives autonomous vehicle research to systematic market strategy—combining automation, pattern-based decision-making, and data-driven execution to eliminate speculation and enforce discipline.

"Automate the process. Let the algorithm enforce the discipline."

Pascal Weidenhammer

Head of Infrastructure & Security (External)

Based near Frankfurt, Germany, Pascal represents the technical evolution of The Daily Profiler community. As a member of the inaugural Bootcamp cohort, he was among the first to recognize the power of combining historical datasets with live price action. Driven by a background in Computer Science and Cybersecurity, Pascal didn't just consume the data—he enhanced it.

He is the developer behind the advanced Daily Profiler Dashboard, a critical visualization tool that synthesizes historical statistics with real-time session data. By transforming complex datasets into actionable visual intelligence, Pascal improved the analysis of intraday trading sessions for the entire membership base.

Today, Pascal works with The Daily Profiler as an external Strategic Advisor on infrastructure and security. Drawing on his cybersecurity expertise, he advises on the practices that keep the digital environment traders rely on robust and resilient, applying the same discipline required for professional trading execution.

His mission is dual-focused: protect the platform and empower the user. By building tools that simplify complexity and maintaining the systems that deliver them, Pascal helps traders focus on what matters—improving their skills and succeeding in the markets.

"Security is the foundation. Clarity is the edge."

Austin Clark

Founder & CEO, The Pack Trade Group

Austin Clark combines military discipline with quantitative analysis to decode the financial markets. A former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant and Medical Laboratory Technician, Austin transitioned his expertise in strict data protocols and objective measurement into a career in full-time futures trading. For Austin, the market isn't about feeling; it is about the same clinical precision required in a laboratory.

Rejecting the "noise" of traditional retail strategies, Austin specializes in pure statistical market behavior. He focuses on session-based retracements and probability-aligned execution to remove the emotion from decision-making. He is the architect of The Gunship, a multi-strategy system based on conditional statistics and daily candle structure.

As the Founder and Lead Strategist of The Pack Trade Group, Austin trades the NY session live, mentoring a growing community of traders. Austin empowers traders to replace guesswork with probability—anchoring execution to verified data and structural discipline. By stripping away the noise of subjective theory, he delivers the proven clarity traders need to achieve total self-reliance.

"No hype. No promises. Just structure, probability, and clarity. Welcome to The Pack"