Alexander Stefanov

Alex is a financial markets journalist and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of writing about how money actually moves. He came in through Bitcoin in 2016, but what hooked him wasn't the price — it was the questions underneath it. Who sets the rules of a currency no government controls? Why do markets panic and euphoria arrive on schedule? Chasing those answers turned into a career: first mapping how crypto works from the inside, then following the same instincts into equities, commodities, and the macro forces that quietly steer all of it. He treats the two worlds as one story, because in practice they are. His problem with most market coverage is that it explains nothing. A headline tells you the price moved; it rarely tells you why, and the "why" is the only part worth a reader's time. So that's what he writes toward — the mechanism, the incentive, the second-order effect most people miss until it's already priced in. He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University, which taught him more about human behavior under uncertainty than any finance program might have. Over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles later, he's still convinced the market has something new to teach him every single day.