United States
The "cmt" in @dkellercmt stands for Chartered Market Technician, the professional designation that anchors the channel's entire identity.
Total Followers +1.1%
28K
Across YouTube
Primary Platform
YouTube
28K followers · 100% of audience
Engagement
4.0%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Micro
Keller appeared on the MoneyShow MoneyMasters Podcast (3/12/26) to discuss sector rotation, foreign market outperformance, and volatility in precious metals.
Keller was tapped for an interactive fireside chat covering sector rotation, foreign market outperformance, and precious metals volatility for a MoneyShow audience.
His StockCharts contributor column covers breadth indicators, sector leadership, and chart pattern breakdowns — with articles published as recently as September 2026.
| Platform | Followers | 30d Growth | Engagement | Posts / wk | Last upload |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | 27,900 | +304 | 4.0% | 11 | 1 day ago |
| Window | YouTube | Combined | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | +100 +0.4% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +100 |
| Last 30 days | +304 +1.1% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +304 |
| Last 90 days | +1K +4.9% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +1K |
| Last 365 days | +1K +4.9% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +1K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seeking Alpha Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jun 2026 | — |
| Koyfin Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jan 2026 | — |
The "cmt" in @dkellercmt stands for Chartered Market Technician, the professional designation that anchors the channel's entire identity. D. Keller runs Sierra Alpha Research LLC and draws on a career spanning Fidelity, Bloomberg, StockCharts, and the CMT Association — institutions covering institutional asset management, financial data infrastructure, and the governing body of the technical analysis profession. On YouTube, he delivers applied technical analysis and behavioral finance through a recurring series called "CHART THIS," using S&P 500 price action as a primary teaching vehicle. The tone is deliberate and practitioner-oriented: less about stock picks, more about analytical discipline and investment decision-making process.
Despite a micro-tier subscriber count, the channel's engagement rate runs well above the category median, reflecting an audience of active investors and financial advisors rather than casual browsers. The viewer base skews heavily male and older — with the 45-and-up cohort forming a large plurality — consistent with working professionals who apply technical methods daily. Sponsors Seeking Alpha and Koyfin, both professional-grade research and charting platforms, validate this positioning: brands in that space seek audiences that actually use advanced analytical tools. For financial-services advertisers, the channel's practitioner credibility and audience specificity carry considerably more weight than raw subscriber numbers alone.
Dkellercmt reaches an audience concentrated in United States primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations. As a finance creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. Demonstrated partners include Seeking Alpha and Koyfin. Engagement on YouTube runs around 4.0%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. Their YouTube-first format lends itself to integrations that sit inside the creator's usual content rather than running as standalone ads. Because the audience follows finance content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For United States-focused brands in finance and related categories, Dkellercmt offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Dkellercmt's tier (Micro, 28K combined followers, United States). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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CMT stands for Chartered Market Technician, a professional credential awarded by the CMT Association to analysts who demonstrate mastery of technical analysis. Dkellercmt — whose full name is David Keller — earned that designation and even held a role at the CMT Association itself before launching his own independent research firm.
Sierra Alpha Research LLC is the independent financial research firm David Keller founded after senior roles at institutions including Fidelity, Bloomberg, StockCharts, and the CMT Association. He serves as its President and Chief Strategist, producing research and education aimed at active investors and financial advisors.
CHART THIS is a recurring series on the channel where David Keller walks through current market charts and applies technical analysis to real investment decisions. It also includes a viewer mailbag format where he answers audience questions on topics like gold, fear and greed indicators, and navigating the CMT certification journey.
The Four Deadly Sins for Investors is a multi-part series on dkellercmt's channel that targets the most common behavioral mistakes active investors make. The first deadly sin he identifies is buying too early, which anchors his broader argument that emotion and poor timing wreck otherwise sound investment theses.
Market Misbehavior — tagged as #marketmisbehavior — is a signature theme running through David Keller's content, describing the irrational, behaviorally-driven patterns that appear on charts when investors act on fear or greed. It's his way of bridging classical technical analysis with behavioral finance, which together form the intellectual backbone of his channel.
Katie Stockton is a prominent technical analyst and founder of Fairlead Strategies, and she has appeared in dkellercmt's content under the Tech Mania Tips banner. Her collaboration with David Keller reflects the channel's focus on bringing credible, professionally credentialed voices into discussions of chart-based market analysis.
Yes, Seeking Alpha is a named sponsor on dkellercmt's YouTube channel. Seeking Alpha is a widely-used stock research and crowd-sourced analysis platform, making it a natural fit for an audience of active investors and financial advisors who are already deep in fundamental and technical research.
Koyfin is a financial data, charting, and portfolio analytics platform popular with serious retail investors and professional analysts. It has sponsored content on dkellercmt's YouTube channel, and the partnership makes sense given how central chart-reading and data visualization are to everything David Keller teaches.
David Keller explicitly targets both active individual investors and financial advisors, with a stated goal of helping advisors make better decisions and strengthen client relationships through improved investment discipline. His audience skews heavily toward experienced investors, with the largest segment being 45 and older, which reflects the professional and career-investor focus of the channel.
Before building his YouTube channel, David Keller held senior roles at Fidelity, StockCharts, Bloomberg, and the CMT Association — a résumé that spans buy-side investing, charting software, financial data terminals, and technical analysis credentialing. That institutional background is a consistent part of how he positions his content as grounded in professional-grade methodology rather than retail speculation.
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