Mike Toney-Hoffman | Founder of Financial Tech Wiz

I’m Mike, founder of Financial Tech Wiz and a full-time marketer at TrendSpider, one of the leading AI-powered trading platforms on the market.

I’ve been trading stocks and options for nearly a decade, and I started Financial Tech Wiz to cut through the noise and give traders honest, experience-backed reviews of the tools that actually matter. What started as a blog has grown into a full content brand covering trading platform reviews, technical analysis education, and market insights.

By day, I lead content and video strategy at TrendSpider, producing YouTube content, hosting live streams and webinars, writing SEO-driven blog content, and building marketing campaigns for one of the most powerful charting and backtesting platforms available. I work directly with the product, which means the reviews and tutorials I publish here go deeper than surface-level takes.

Beyond the content side, I’m also building the Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal, a tool designed to help active traders log trades, track performance, and get AI-powered insights to sharpen their edge over time. It’s the natural next step for Financial Tech Wiz, going beyond reviews and education to actually putting a product in traders’ hands.

On Financial Tech Wiz, you’ll find in-depth platform reviews, trading strategy breakdowns, tool comparisons, and now, a trading journal built for serious traders who want to improve their results systematically.

If you have questions, the contact page is the cleanest path. You can also email [email protected] directly, join the Financial Tech Wiz community, or find me on YouTube and on the socials below.

What I write about most

  • Trading platform reviews: TradingView, TrendSpider, thinkorswim, tastytrade, Webull, and others
  • Broker reviews and trading journal integrations: covering 25+ brokers supported in the Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal
  • Options trading and swing trading: strategy mechanics, position sizing, and practical setups
  • Technical analysis education: indicators, chart patterns, multi-timeframe context, and backtesting
  • Trading psychology and journaling: the workflow that turned my own results around
  • SEO for financial content: the publishing side of the operation

How to verify any of this

My work at TrendSpider is public on the TrendSpider YouTube channel, where I produce videos, host livestreams, and run webinars. The Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal app I built is live at journal.financialtechwiz.com; you can try it yourself. Read my full archive of articles at author/mike-toney-hoffman. Reach me directly via the contact page.

Editorial independence

Financial Tech Wiz is supported in part by affiliate commissions on tools I personally use and recommend. Some posts contain affiliate links. The recommendation always leads; the link follows. I do not accept payment for positive reviews and I do not recommend products I have not used. Full details are in the site disclaimer.

The product I built

Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal

A structured performance tracking app for active stock and options traders. Auto-import from 25+ brokers, AI-powered insights on your trades, and the equity curve and analytics serious traders actually use. $19/month or $9.91/month billed annually.

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