The TheoTrade Team

Don Kaufman - Co-Founder, Lead Instructor, Risk Management - Stocks, Options, Futures

Don is one of the industry's leading financial strategists and educational authorities. With more than 21 years of financial industry experience, Mr. Kaufman oversees TheoTrade's firm wide strategy and deployment initiatives, while designing and executing upon innovative content in the financial education space.

Prior to TheoTrade, Mr. Kaufman spent 6 years at TD Ameritrade as Director of the Trader Group. At TD Ameritrade Mr. Kaufman handled thinkorswim content and client education which included the design, build, and execution of what has become the industry standard in financial education.

He started his career at thinkorswim in 2000 (acquired by TD Ameritrade in 2009), where he served as chief derivatives instructor, helping the firm progress into the industry leader in retail options trading and investor education services.

Teaching Specialties:

  • Equities
  • Options
  • Futures
  • Currencies
  • Risk Management
  • Financial Modeling
  • Technical Analysis
  • Volatility and Derivative Pricing
  • Market Making

Professor Jeff Bierman, CMT - Instructor &  Professional Trader - Technical & Fundamental Analysis

Professor Jeffrey Bierman, CMT is one of the industry's leading technical analysts with more than 34 years of experience under his belt.

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 nearly 10 years.

Jeff 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 a prolific writer and has been published and quoted in a number of business media outlets including Kiplinger's Personal Finance, TheStreet.com, MarketWatch.com and BusinessWeek.  He was also named by Bull & Bear Report as one of its top stock-pickers for 1999 and 2000.

Prior to joining TheoTrade, Mr Bierman spent 8 years at TD Ameritrade serving as the company's Chief Market Technician, working along side Don Kaufman in the Trader Group.

At TD Ameritrade Jeff was employed in a myriad of capacities including building educational content, teaching technical and fundamental trading strategies, and assisting in the development and design of thinkorswim's charting packages which are considered the gold standard in the brokerage industry.

Jeff has been teaching at both Loyola University of Chicago and DePaul University business school programs as an adjunct professor for 6 years.

Jeff earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at University of California at Berkeley where he majored in English Literature and Sociology.  Jeff earned his Masters of Business Administration at University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business with an emphasis in Finance.

Teaching Specialties:

  • Fundamental Analysis
  • Technical Analysis
  • Quantitative Modeling
  • Equity Valuation Techniques
  • Candlestick Charting
  • Momentum Trading Strategies
  • Contrarian Trading Strategies
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Sector Rotation Analysis
  • Cycle Wave Theories

Tony Rago - Instructor & Professional Trader, E-mini NASDAQ Futures

Tony has been trading since the mid-90s and has narrowed his trading skills to focus on the specialization of NASDAQ Futures.

At TheoTrade, Tony provides our members day trading content specific to the NQ in the chat room. He provides TheoTrade members with actionable ideas, both long and short, as well as on-going education to help members with their trading objectives regarding futures.

Tony can be found at TheoTrade.com daily in our TheoChat® Room.


Corey Rosenbloom, CMT - Professional Trader - Stocks, Futures - Senior Market Strategist

Senior Market Strategist - Corey has been a Professional Trader, Trading Educator and Technical Analyst for 15 years, and specializes in Stocks and Futures.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science/Public Affairs (concentration in Business) from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree (with highest honors), which is a Dual Degree in: Psychology and Political Science, also from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

You can find Corey in the TheoTrade Live Trading Room, where he coaches on many subjects ranging from ES Futures, to Intraday, to Swing Trading, as well as in the “Corey’s Corner Archives,” which house Corey’s video trainings as well as his famous Daily Idealized Trade Reports and his Weekly Inter-Market Technical Reports…only here at TheoTrade!

Teaching Specialties:

  • Equities
  • Futures
  • ETFs
  • Swing Trading
  • Intraday Trading
  • Game Planning/Strategy Planning
  • Technical Analysis
  • Quantitative Analysis and Data Modeling
  • Backtesting and System Modeling
  • Risk Management
  • Trend Trading Identification and Strategies
  • Day Structure Modeling (Trend, Range)

Brandon Chapman, CMT - Professional Trader - Options, Stocks, Futures, Market Technician

Brandon Chapman, CMT has over 23 years in the financial industry and over 15 years teaching self-directed investors. He is currently a contributor for Forbes.com and Investopedia.com. He is also a subject matter expert for the CMT Association.

Prior to Joining TheoTrade, Brandon spent 13 years as a coach and instructor for TD Ameritrade’s education division. During his tenure, he helped write courses in option strategies, technical analysis, Forex, fundamental analysis and portfolio management. He was also a co-host for TD Ameritrade’s Morning Huddle broadcast for several years. During his tenure with TD Ameritrade and Thinkorswim Group, he authored serval articles for Nasdaq.com, thinkMoney Magazine and The Ticker Tape Monthly.

Brandon earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University where he majored in Economics. He received his Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation in 2007.

At Theotrade, he teaches daily classes on Options, Technical Analysis, Intermarket Analysis, Fundamental Analysis and Top Down Analysis.

Teaching Specialties:

  • Equities
  • Options
  • Currencies
  • Risk Management
  • Technical Analysis
  • Fundamental Analysis
  • Volatility Analysis
  • Top Down Analysis

Jeff Roth - Co-Founder,   COO, CMO, Executive Operations and Marketing Strategist

As a a 17-year veteran Digital Strategy and Implementation Executive and expert, prior to co-founding and running all the operations of TheoTrade, Mr. Roth spent 4 and half years in the financial industry as Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer, Operations Executive, and Executive Strategist for three different startups.

At each of the three Financial Education e-commerce startups, Jeff has been a Co-Founder, Chief Strategist, and Primary Revenue Driver; and they have each become multi-million dollar businesses within the first year he co-founded them. That's three multi-million dollar startups within a 6-year timeframe.

Mr. Roth was instrumental in the strategy and execution in helping one of those prior companies grow from a $2M startup to a whopping $15M in under 3 years and to reach #21 on the Inc. 500 list in that same time frame.

Jeff studied at Seton Hall University where he graduated with honors with a degree in Economics and a concentration in monetary policy. Trading runs in the family. Jeff’s stepfather was an independent floor trader on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, CBOE, for 17 years. Jeff was hooked on the markets from an early age studying charts and helping his stepfather trade. When he saved up enough money to trade he made his first trade when he was 18.

Operational Specialties:

  • Company-wide Strategy and Deployment Initiatives Executive
  • Lead generation, customer nurture cycle, membership retention
  • Indirect and direct monetization of content
  • Full cycle digital sales funnel strategy and buildout
  • Google Adwords Certified, Google Analytics Certified
  • Multiple Digital Marketing Certifications
  • Social Media Strategic Directives
  • Media Buys
  • E-mail Marketing Campaigns

Stacie R. Cole - Director of Operations, Director of Digital Marketing & Content Strategist

Prior to joining Theotrade, Ms. Cole has over 20 years of professional, Executive Level business acumen and experience over a wide breadth of Operations for her clients including: Digital Product Strategy Development and Implementation, complete life cycle Digital Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Copywriting (SEO and Emotive), Live Event management, production, and coordination, public relations management, managing/training entire customer service departments (Corporate Trainer), team building, recruiting and interviewing candidates (Executive Recruiter), organizational development and company structure buildout, and sales/business development.

With TheoTrade from Day 1, Stacie designed, structured and built the entire TheoTrade website (along with COO Jeff Roth), both the public and the membership sides -- with the goals of being elegant, extremely user-friendly, mobile responsive, optimized for search engines, easy to navigate, and able to adequately house the immense and ever-expanding digital library and curriculum of content that TheoTrade provides.

Stacie earned her Masters degree in the Entertainment Business from Full Sail University, graduating with Valedictorian honors and two Course Director's Awards (Product  & Artist Management; Negotiation & Deal-Making). She also has a BSBA in Business from Indiana Wesleyan University.

She holds multiple business-related certifications including: Storynomics (Story in Business), several Digital Marketing certifications, and the John C. Maxwell Leadership Certification, Change Management, Corporate Behavioral Science (Organizational Development, Myers-Briggs, Personality Science, Enneagram of Personality Certified, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, etc).

Operational Specialties:

  • Digital Asset / Content Strategist
  • Full life cycle Digital Marketing Strategist and Implementation
  • Website Design/Buildout (online course structure & buildout)
  • Copywriting (email marketing, sales pages)
  • Documentation/Process Development
  • Internet Reputation Management
  • Live Event Coordination & Management
  • Public Relations Management
  • Social Media Strategist
  • Corporate Behavioral Science/Psychology (Personality, Organizational Development)

Steve "Slim" Miller - Instructor & Professional Trader Stocks, Options, Futures

Steve Miller, aka, Slim, has spent the past 42 years trading stocks, options, futures on and off the trading floor. His nickname, "Slim," came from his trading floor badge, SLM. Currently, he still trades actively, providing daily analysis and commentary on the financial markets, a unique charting service, based on cycle analysis and coaching/consulting for hedge funds and individual self-directed traders/investors.Throughout his long career, Slim has studied technical analysis of the financial markets, emphasizing cycle studies for a short-term swing trading style.

You can find Steve on TheoTrade delivering the following reports to TheoTrade members:

FutureSpeak: Weekly on Wednesday; analysis of six segments of the futures markets, 24 contracts (48 weeks a year)

Stock Sectors: Cycle analysis of 1-3 stock groups with actionable information (3-5 times a month)

Tools for Techs: Information and illustration on the use of many studies on the TOS platform and much more

Trader Psychology: Important discussion of personal issues that may bring roadblocks to success (1-2 times a month)

Big Picture Analysis: Long-term perspectives and analysis of major markets

Style, Strategy & Plan: Many topics on traders’ approach to the markets

IRA MO: Approach and trading ideas suitable for IRAs

Market Week: Fridays 48 weeks a year (We take off one week a quarter).


Blake Young - Professional Trader - Options, Futures, Techno-fundamentalist

Blake Young has been trading futures for over 20 years. He has been a principal for a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA), a hedge fund manager (3 different funds), senior currency analyst, and a financial market instructor for 16 years.

He has created dozens of unique educational courses and offerings and has instructed thousands of new and seasoned traders on the intricacies of trading the financial markets.

His favorite trading strategies involve using fundamental analysis to create a posture while using charting to time entries, exits, and to manage risk. He calls his approach “technofundamentalism”.

Blake likes to say, “I would rather miss a good trade than take a bad trade..."

  • Options (Z-Spreads)
  • Futures
  • Technical Analysis
  • Fundamental Analysis
  • Risk Management

Gianni Di Poce - Professional Trader - Stocks, Futures, Cycle Analysis

Gianni has been a trader and market analyst for 12 years specializing in equity and futures markets.

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Gianni is in the TheoTrade Live Trading Room every day, where he coaches members on how to identify favorable risk-reward trading setups. He also shares with members how to understand the overlap between financial markets and the real-world economy.

Gianni has been and continues to be featured on various financial news websites like Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, and more...

Teaching Specialties:

  • Equities
  • Futures
  • Bonds
  • Currencies
  • Risk Management
  • Technical Analysis
  • Cyclical Analysis
  • Macroeconomic Analysis
  • Intermarket Analysis

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