Matthew Poll Day Trading For Good is a video interview of Matt Poll conducted April of 2021. In the video, he talks about Day Trade For Good and his role within it.

Matthew Poll Day Trading For Good Interview Transcript

“Yeah, so day trade for good is not another business. I’ve heard some people say like, it’s some separate business we’re running or whatever. It’s not, it’s a program.

So day trade for good is a program within our business, where we’re saying, you know what, like, we’re doing this thing, we’re making a difference for people. And we want to start giving back to the community.

So what we have done is we’ve taken our whole organization, and we’ve surveyed, like, what matters to you guys? Like what Where do you want to make a difference in the community on the planet? And if we did that, like how, how would we go about taking revenue, like real money that’s coming in to our business, and make a difference for the community in this area?

Hearts and Hands for Humanity

An example of that is every quarter, so every three months, we just we survey and pick a nonprofit that our group does. This quarter, for example, we just switched over to hearts enhance for humanity, which is a nonprofit that goes to Africa, and they drill these fresh water wells in these villages. That I mean, people are dying, because they’re getting water from just really, I mean, if you went over there and saw it, you’d get it. It’s just it’s not humane. Family members are dying. And these wells that were this organizations drilling for like 510 $1,000 per well, is making massive is having massive impact in the community.

So this quarter, we decided to team up with hearts and hands to donate. Anyone who comes in as a trial that the dollar amount that they pay for the trial goes directly every dollar goes directly towards that organization. So we’re saying to people, look, we live in a different time. We live in a world where you’re more responsible for your funding. Answers than ever before, why don’t you come test what we’re doing, you’ve heard about this day train thing, great contest where we’re doing, and the small dollar amount that we’re going to ask from you to test our product to test what we’re doing to see if a train is right for you, we’re going to take all of that money, and donated this quarter to, in this case, hearts and hands for humanity.

Future Charities

And we’ll change it, you know, next quarter will probably shift it to something else. Whatever our group decides, but we really have made this about, let’s make it about the people. For the people who want to know how to do this who haven’t had the opportunity, we’re gonna give them that opportunity.

Then the money that we’re we’re taking from it, we’re gonna put it towards a cause that our group feels like is making a difference in the community. So it’s really a, it’s kind of a give, give, like we’re really giving and giving on this side of our business. And then of course, we’re in business to make money. Of course, we’re doing that. If it makes sense for people who test our product, fall in love with it. Or really decide like, “Oh, this is a part of my life I want to adopt. I want to start learning how to trade or invest on a higher level, then they can say yes.

And at that point, we engage and then there’s some you know, money exchanged and agreements made between our clients. But until then, we’re just out helping making a difference in the community.”

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About Matthew Poll

Matthew Poll, AKA Matt Poll, is an entrepreneur, investor and life coach based out of Silicon Slopes in Lehi, Utah. Furthermore, he is the co founder of GTF, a company which he helped establish in September of 2008.

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How did I get into day trading? Furthermore, why did I decide to start a day trading business during the terrible markets around 2008? Watch the video below to learn more about my day trading roots.

Matthew Poll Day Trading

The way that I got introduced to trading was when we began our trading company, which was actually back in 2008. In probably the most unlikely circumstance and unlikely market. Most people remember that 2008 was one of those times that the market crashed. In addition, most people are scared of the market. Therefore, not interested in starting to trade.

Kevin Jones Day Trading

I was in the cellphone industry at that time with Kevin Jones, my business partner. I met his dad, who was a longtime day trader. And my first reaction was like day trading doesn’t work.

You know, it’s 2008. No one would ever want to be in the markets right now. I was hearing from his dad these profits, coming in and showing these statements and these, like, you know, I’m trying to run a cell phone business. And so I ignored him for a while. Then when we got to a point where we were exiting that business, his dad kept showing up… Kevin senior. Kevin was already doing this with him, so I finally sat down was like, ‘Okay, show me what you got.’

Matthew Poll Day Trading Belief

My belief around day trading started to shift with education on how the markets worked. How you could actually make profit in an up market, but also in a down market. When we got started, I finally had this awakening, like, Oh my gosh, you can make money and this thing’s going down. I started sharing with people like, Oh, yeah, we’re gonna be starting the day trading business. You know, I’ve left the cellphone industry. We’re now kind of start creating like tools and coaching around trading. My family and friends were worried for me. In fact, I would get approached by them all the time, like ‘Are you doing okay? Like ‘Is everything all right?’ thinking that our success was somehow tied to what they saw on the news, with the crash that happened in 2008 tied to the real estate market.

And so it is kind of an exciting new shift and beliefs around how you can make money day trading that really gets this thing started. And I saw that as an opportunity for people who didn’t know that. Traditional investors and I would say most of America is in this idea of the way you make money in the market is you put it in, you sit on it, and you wait for it to go up. And that’s the way most people do that, they give their money to a broker, and they count on them to do that for them.

It’s like, what happens when there’s a crash? What happens the next time this happens? Are you going to be a victim to the next downside turning market. And the truth is we empower our traders to not be that’s really shift that we’re empowering our traders with.

Matthew Poll Day Trading Emotion

Day Trading is an emotional thing because we’re not robots. Furthermore, there’s always a psychological factor. In fact, the market itself is a reflection of the combined general consensus of what we believe something is worth. So you could say that what the price is of the market today is actually a psychological reaction of the general population. To make money in it, or to be successful in it requires you to almost be able to remove yourself from that emotional response. And so there, there’s there’s probably more books about the psychology of trading than there are skills and strategies, because it’s that thing that’s going to kill you. It’s that thing that’s going to have you do what everyone else is doing and you should be doing the opposite.