Dejan Ilijevski, MS, MBA, has almost 20 years of experience in the trading/financial services industry. Before starting an independent, fiduciary investment advisory firm, Dejan was a fixed-income trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, transacting over $1 billion dollars/day and more than 1% of the global 10-year US Treasury note volume. He was a VP and Director of Discretionary Trading Operations of a proprietary trading firm, where he developed and executed the firm’s innovation strategy. Dejan has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry.
Technical and fundamental analysis is usually useless as a trading edge. Mindless strategies like mean reversion work until they don't and you suffer a blowout. Fundamentals are priced in. And no one can predict tomorrow's news.
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