Donovan Dreyer's Bio

Donovan Dreyer stormed the walls of the financial world in 2007 as 1st Runner Up in the yearlong national stock-picking championship, "Zack’s Challenge." Not only did "DreyerD" produce a documented gain of 62%, he chronicled his progress in more than 100 posted blog articles, through which he shared his stock picks and his strategies, his market insights, and his trading philosophy. During the course of the competition, he captured the number one daily percentage-gainer on the major exchanges four times, in his Weekly Top 5 posts. Throughout, he showed a remarkable aptitude for distilling the sometimes arcane, challenging market concepts into intelligible prose, in his educational and often entertaining articles. His writings are archived at: http://www.zacks.com/blog/post_archive.html?g=20

Notable Highlights:

Developed a commanding trading system, entered and prevailed as 1st Runner Up," in "Zack’s Challenge" top trader championship of 2007 - during a period of exaggerated market corrections Since the beginning of 2008, the end of the championship, outperformed the contestant chosen as top trader by Zacks Wrote weekly Top 5 Stock-Picking articles, resulting in four top daily percentage picks of the 7000 stocks on major exchanges in two months Contributed advice that ultimately led to changes in rules and in software for the Zacks Challenge Devised strategies with exchange-traded funds new to the markets in 2007-8 Finished in top 1% of the million+ registrants in CNBC’s 2007 trading contest Over his career, Donovan has developed diverse inter-personal skills throughout seven years of social service in the nation’s public school system, where he currently provides young people with guidance counseling. In 2006, as research analyst, he was instrumental in the founding of a small asset management firm, Keystone Capital, where he contributed to the business plan, to the development of investment strategy, and to daily portfolio management decisions. Donovan is a graduate of WallStreetTeachers classes and a master of David Elliott’s proprietary technical strategies. His intense interest in the financial markets has led him to devote a significant amount of time to studying the works of such authors as Van Tharp, Alex Elder, Jesse Livermore, and John Murphy; and his manifest talent for trading has all but guaranteed him a brilliant career in the financial markets. Donovan has coached both golf and basketball, has piloted small aircraft, and currently works as a high school counselor. He enjoys hiking in the mountains and playing golf. His passions center around his wife Jennifer and two small daughters, Lillian and Lucille; together they enjoy exploring the Great Outdoors, family outings of myriad types, and a shared love of books. Donovan resides with his family in Colorado.

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