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Jeffrey Bierman
About
Professor Jeffrey Bierman, CMT is one of the security industry's leading technical analysts with more than 28 years of experience under his belt. He is currently a daily lecturer on TheoTrade.com which is an online educational resource platform for professional market traders. Prior to joining TheoTrade, Jeff spent 8 years at TD Ameritrade serving as the company's Chief Market Technician. At TD Ameritrade Jeff was employed in a myriad of capacities including building educational content, teaching technical and fundamental investing/trading strategies, and assisting in the development and design of thinkorSwim's charting package which is considered the gold standard in the brokerage industry.
Jeff started his career as a NASDAQ market maker assistant, and shortly thereafter decided to make the jump to running his own hedge fund which he successfully managed for over 10 years. He has worked in a variety of roles within the securities industry including portfolio manager, buy-side analyst, sell-side analyst, market technician and sales trader. Apart from his daily duties at TheoTrade.com Jeff is employed as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level 1 instructor for Kaplan/Schweser, a professional exam preparatory service. He also holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.
Degrees
- Master of Business Administration (M.B.A), Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A), Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A), Department of English, University of California at Berkeley
Professional Employment
- Adjunct Instructor, Department of Finance, Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University of Chicago, 2016-present
- Adjunct Instructor, Department of Finance, Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University, 2016-present
Research Interests
- Financial Analysis
- Asset Pricing
- Financial Modeling
- Technical Analysis
- Portfolio Management
- Derivatives
- Statistics
- Capital Market Structure
- Corporate Governance
Courses Taught
- FINC 335 Investments
- FINC 452 Investment Management
- FINC 553 Applied Portfolio Management
Awards
- Cum Laude honors designation, 1991. Concentration: Finance & Portfolio Management
- Phi Beta Kappa honors designation, 1988. Honors Thesis: “Adverse Impact of Sports Media on Black Male Youth”
- Cum Laude honors designation, 1988. Honors Thesis: “Robert Frost: The Man, His Poetry and His Greatest Source of Fear”
Selected Publications
Jeff has produced a wide variety of research reports over his long career in the securities industry which have received coverage in media publications such as:
- Dick Davis Digest
- Income Digest
- Bull & Bear Report
- Miami Herald
- Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
- BusinessWeek
- Personal Money