David Keller
David Keller is the President and Chief Strategist of Sierra Alpha Research, a boutique investment research firm focused on managing risk through market awareness. He combines the strengths of technical analysis, behavioural finance, and data visualization to identify investment opportunities and enrich relationships between advisors and clients. He is also a CNBC Pro Conttributor, and he recaps market activity and interviews leading experts on his show “The Final Bar” on StockCharts TV. Previously, Keller was the Chief Market Strategist at StockCharts, the web's leading technical analysis and financial charting platform for online retail investors, where he helped investors minimize behavioral biases through technical analysis of the financial markets. Before that, he was Managing Director of Research for Fidelity Investments in Boston, where he managed the Technical Research Department as well as the legendary Fidelity Chart Room.
David Keller Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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President and Chief Strategist
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Chief Market Strategist and Senior Technical Analyst
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Managing Director of Research
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Adjunct Professor
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Technical Analysis Application Specialist
Academic History
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B.A., B.S., Music and Psychology
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Member, Technical Securities Analysts Association San Francisco
Member, International Federation of Technical Analysts
Director, The Walden School
EARLY CAREER
Keller was Managing Director of Research at Fidelity Investments, where he managed the largest buy-side technical analysis team in the industry, advising portfolio managers with around $1.8 trillion in assets.
He has lectured extensively on technical analysis and behavioural finance as an Adjunct Professor at the Brandeis University International Business School in Waltham, Mass.
He was a Past President of the CMT Association and most recently served as a Subject Matter Expert for Behavioral Finance.
Prior to that David was a Technical Analysis Application Specialist with Bloomberg LP in New York and was a regular contributor to Bloomberg Markets magazine.
MEDIA & SPEAKING
Keller is a frequent host on StockCharts TV, and he relates mindfulness techniques to investor decision making in his blog, The Mindful Investor.
He is a frequent guest speaker for financial media podcasts and live events.