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About Jea Yu - the Underground Trader

Jea Yu is a co-founder of Undergroundtrader.com, the premiere virtual trading desk and trader education site that has served over 10,000 traders, fund managers and investors worldwide since 1998. His brainchild was voted Forbes Best of the Web for four consecutive years under the active trader category.   Mr. Yu has teamed up with Benzinga and Marketfy.com to produce The Morning Profit Maker service on Marketfy.com which seeks to capture his proprietary Perfect Storm patterns within the first 90 minutes of the trading day to generate consistent morning income stream for members. Mr. Yu has published four best sellers through John Wiley & Sons, Bloomberg Press, Marketplace Books and McGraw Hill; “Trading Full Circle”, 2010, also translated in German in 2011, "Undergroundtrader.com Guide to Electronic Trading", 2001 and "Secrets of the Undergroundtrader",2003 as well as four popular trading videos titled “Swing Trading Secrets”, “Short Term Profit Hunter”, "Level 2 Trading Warfare" and "Beating the Bear" published through Wiley Trading and Traders Library. His latest book “Way of the Trade: Tactical Applications of Underground Trading Methods for Traders and Investors” was released in August 2013, by Bloomberg Press and John Wiley and Sons. He has been a featured speaker all over the country at various expos and seminars who enjoys a standing-room-only reception in the largest convention halls from New York to Las Vegas. He is also a featured speaker for the prestigious International Speakers Bureau. Jea’s energetic presentation style, along with his obvious mastery of the materials being covered makes him an audience favorite. He has been quoted and featured in USA Today, WallStreet Journal, Traders Magazine and the Financial Times. Mr. Yu has been a contributing writer for Benzinga.com, TradingMarkets.com, Trade2Win.com and Active Trader Magazine. Mr. Yu has a B.A. in Liberal Arts and minor in Business Administration from the University of Maryland.

With over 16 years of market experience through bull mania and bear manic markets, Mr.. Yu has developed a complete proprietary synergistic trading and investment methodology integrating multiple technical filters on converging time frames to produce a foreshadowing element to market trends. By always having a finger on the pulse of the markets and shifting with the market paradigms, Mr. Yu has stayed on the cutting edge of strategy development.   Mr. Yu’s philosophy of the markets can be summed up in the following statements, “The name of the game is to find transparency before it becomes too transparent. The goal is to capture the profits before the window of opportunity shuts. When full transparency has hit the markets, the window of opportunity has closed.”