Jeffrey Bierman

Jeff is one of the security industry’s leading technical analysts with more than 27 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.

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.

Jeff is also currently employed as an adjunct professor of finance at Loyola University Chicago Quinlan School of Business where he teaches FINC 335–“Investments” in the undergraduate program, and FINC 452 --“Investment Management” and FINC 553–“Applied Portfolio Management” in the graduate program. In addition, Jeff is employed as an adjunct professor of finance at DePaul University Driehaus College of Business where he teaches FIN 380–“Cases in Financial Decision-Making,” a capstone course designed to provide undergraduate students the opportunity to apply and integrate knowledge acquired over their previous breath of finance courses.

Jeff earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at University of California at Berkeley where he was accorded the summa cum laude designation in English Literature and the phi beta kappa designation in Sociology. Jeff earned his Master of Business Administration degree at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business with an emphasis in Finance. He also holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.