Striving to further the profession with diverse opportunities in continuing education, advocacy, ethics awareness, and networking.
David Aferiat is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Trade Ideas, LLC, where he taps experience in business development, customer acquisition and retention, corporate strategy as well as energy trading and marketing. In 16 years, Trade Ideas has grown to over 50,000 accounts in 19 different countries. Hedge funds, Asset Managers, Institutions, Online Brokers, and self-directed investors use the A.I. powered software as a premier idea generation, risk management, and decision support tool. Working with senior officers and key decision makers in the boardroom, finance, HR, marketing and trading functions, David has advised both public and privately held companies with revenues ranging from $20 million to $14 billion.
David recently chaired The Chicago Trading Show on FinTech. He writes technical analysis for TheStreet.com and about A.I. in the markets for the publication, Fund Intelligence.
David holds Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and French from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Master’s of Business Administration degree from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
A webcast presentation on Relative Strength Trading: Rotating into Consistent Performance Results originally held on June 9th, 2021 by David Aferiat and Michael Nauss, CMT as part of the CMT Association's Educational Web Series.
The markets are absorbing shocks to the system on a near-weekly basis: the pandemic's economic impact, environmental calamity, and U.S. policy post-election. New tools and approaches derived from classic concepts are needed in such volatile markets.In this presentation,...
A webcast presentation originally held by David Aferiat and Michael Nauss on April 8, 2020 as part of the CMT Association's Educational Web Series. Saddle Up. The pendulum has swung rapidly from the passive investing approaches to the market enjoyed for the past 10...
A webcast presentation originally held on November 9th, 2016 by David Aferiat as part of the CMT Association's Educational Web Series. Markets are roiling with seismic change: Black Swan events, sideways moving benchmarks, lackluster performance, and enormous Q1, Q2 fund...