Jeffrey Bierman

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

Research Interests

• Financial Analysis
• Asset Pricing
• Financial Modeling
• Technical Analysis
• Portfolio Management
• Derivatives
• Statistics
• Capital Market Structure
• Corporate Governance

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

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”