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Meet the team of traders who run the chat room.
Nate originally founded the Investors Underground community in 2008 with the goal of creating the top trading service on the web. This service, fueled by Nate's 10+ years experience trading equities (both Nasdaq and OTC), has become a "must follow" in the trading community. Nate is well known for his unique ability to read points of inflection & exhaustion in momo stocks, making him a "go-to" guy in the world of day trading.
Cam first entered the world of trading in 2010 when he joined Investors Underground as a subscriber. He now has 8 years of trading under his belt, and found his niche catalyst-trading tech and pharma stocks on the short side. Cam splits his time between trading, managing the IU team, and creating content for members and people interested in the trading community.
Michele has been a full time trader since 2001. Her style includes both day and swing trades, with an emphasis on swing trading. Michele runs the swing trade chat room at Investors Underground where she provides swing trading watch lists & monthly webinars. IU members have found Michele’s commentary to be invaluable, helping them understand longer term perspectives in the markets. In 2012, Michele started blogging her trade ideas and setups on her blog Trade on the Fly as well as sharing some stories on rural life in Montana.
Emil started trading in 2000 as a swing trader, looking at both technicals and fundamentals. He used his technical charting experience to develop intraday strategies, with varying success. . After many years of trading in solitude and fine tuning his own style, he found the IU community (2011) which was the first step into the right direction and helping him achieve consistency in trading. Now, he is still trading in IU actively and learning new things every day.
Cody has been a full time day trader since early 2015 and has actively been a trader in the markets since 2010. He has trading nearly everything offered in the markets, stocks, options, futures, forex, penny stocks, you name it he has traded it. Since those first years of trading he learned his lessons blowing up several account until finally gaining traction in early 2013 when he found that his niche was finding momentum before hit happens on the long side. Cody actively trades many securities on a daily basis with a 90/10 long/short strategy.
Dante has been actively day trading for almost 6 years now, and quit his job as a financial analyst at a small consulting firm to trade full time in October of 2015. He's always been drawn to high volatility momentum stocks, and IU really helped him navigate those waters. Between 2011-2014 he blew up multiple accounts learning everything the hard way, then finally found traction in late 2014 with a focus on small cap short selling. Dante is a research-oriented fundamental trader, focused on reading tape, price, and volume. He is primarily looking for bigger picture moves rather than scalping. Dante strictly trades Nasdaq momentum names. His strategy is almost entirely short-biased, roughly 5/95 long/short strategy.
Tyler has been a full time trader for 10+ years, and is an old friend of Nate’s, growing up in the same town and sharing similar interests. He had a lot of success in the OTC world when starting out, and has successfully transitioned his strategies to nasdaq, now thats where the action is. He has been a member of IU since day 1, and has been helping on the IU team for 5+ years. He splits his time between trading and helping new IU members with their learning curve.
Phil started trading in college to make a little extra money. After a couple years of studying charts, Phil opened a small account during his sophomore year. He lost the money and repeated the process junior year. By senior year, Phil was starting to understand chart patterns better and started learning how to short stocks. By the end of senior year, Phil grew his small account exponentially by focusing on shorting parabolic moves. Now, Phil continues to profit while using his strategy successfully in the Investors Underground chat room.
Eric Wood discovered the world of trading during the dot com boom, but was focused more on real estate investments. After several years, Eric wanted to find new opportunities and began trading penny stocks. Although Eric did not have much structure to his strategy (self-admittedly), he saw great success in the market which led him to start polishing his strategy of shorting "pump and dump" stocks. Eric joined the Investors Underground chat room in hopes of finding the tools he needed to broaden his trading style. After just 2 weeks, he knew he found something special after seeing Nate's consistently profitable trading. Now, Eric continues to profit from his short-biased strategy while moderating the Investors Underground momentum room.
Josh Cherniack graduated with honors from CU Boulder. After graduation, he got his first real exposure to the markets as a junior analyst at Point 72 Capital where he worked under a portfolio manager with 100 million in capital. He later joined his father at a prop trading firm, Goose Hill LLC, which was spun off from First New York Securities.
Josh has also worked in sales, holding a position at Iason where he sold data systems to bulge bracket bangs specializing in swaps.
For the past four years, Josh has been a full-time day trader focused on trading large cap stocks. He has been trading at Investors Underground since 2015.
Nate originally founded the Investors Underground community in 2008 with the goal of creating the top trading service on the web. This service, fueled by Nate's 10+ years experience trading equities (both Nasdaq and OTC), has become a "must follow" in the trading community. Nate is well known for his unique ability to read points of inflection & exhaustion in momo stocks, making him a "go-to" guy in the world of day trading.
Cam first entered the world of trading in 2010 when he joined Investors Underground as a subscriber. He now has 8 years of trading under his belt, and found his niche catalyst-trading tech and pharma stocks on the short side. Cam splits his time between trading, managing the IU team, and creating content for members and people interested in the trading community.
Michele has been a full time trader since 2001. Her style includes both day and swing trades, with an emphasis on swing trading. Michele runs the swing trade chat room at Investors Underground where she provides swing trading watch lists & monthly webinars. IU members have found Michele’s commentary to be invaluable, helping them understand longer term perspectives in the markets. In 2012, Michele started blogging her trade ideas and setups on her blog Trade on the Fly as well as sharing some stories on rural life in Montana.
Emil started trading in 2000 as a swing trader, looking at both technicals and fundamentals. He used his technical charting experience to develop intraday strategies, with varying success. . After many years of trading in solitude and fine tuning his own style, he found the IU community (2011) which was the first step into the right direction and helping him achieve consistency in trading. Now, he is still trading in IU actively and learning new things every day.
Cody has been a full time day trader since early 2015 and has actively been a trader in the markets since 2010. He has trading nearly everything offered in the markets, stocks, options, futures, forex, penny stocks, you name it he has traded it. Since those first years of trading he learned his lessons blowing up several account until finally gaining traction in early 2013 when he found that his niche was finding momentum before hit happens on the long side. Cody actively trades many securities on a daily basis with a 90/10 long/short strategy.
Dante has been actively day trading for almost 6 years now, and quit his job as a financial analyst at a small consulting firm to trade full time in October of 2015. He's always been drawn to high volatility momentum stocks, and IU really helped him navigate those waters. Between 2011-2014 he blew up multiple accounts learning everything the hard way, then finally found traction in late 2014 with a focus on small cap short selling. Dante is a research-oriented fundamental trader, focused on reading tape, price, and volume. He is primarily looking for bigger picture moves rather than scalping. Dante strictly trades Nasdaq momentum names. His strategy is almost entirely short-biased, roughly 5/95 long/short strategy.
Tyler has been a full time trader for 10+ years, and is an old friend of Nate’s, growing up in the same town and sharing similar interests. He had a lot of success in the OTC world when starting out, and has successfully transitioned his strategies to nasdaq, now thats where the action is. He has been a member of IU since day 1, and has been helping on the IU team for 5+ years. He splits his time between trading and helping new IU members with their learning curve.
Phil started trading in college to make a little extra money. After a couple years of studying charts, Phil opened a small account during his sophomore year. He lost the money and repeated the process junior year. By senior year, Phil was starting to understand chart patterns better and started learning how to short stocks. By the end of senior year, Phil grew his small account exponentially by focusing on shorting parabolic moves. Now, Phil continues to profit while using his strategy successfully in the Investors Underground chat room.
Eric Wood discovered the world of trading during the dot com boom, but was focused more on real estate investments. After several years, Eric wanted to find new opportunities and began trading penny stocks. Although Eric did not have much structure to his strategy (self-admittedly), he saw great success in the market which led him to start polishing his strategy of shorting "pump and dump" stocks. Eric joined the Investors Underground chat room in hopes of finding the tools he needed to broaden his trading style. After just 2 weeks, he knew he found something special after seeing Nate's consistently profitable trading. Now, Eric continues to profit from his short-biased strategy while moderating the Investors Underground momentum room.
Josh Cherniack graduated with honors from CU Boulder. After graduation, he got his first real exposure to the markets as a junior analyst at Point 72 Capital where he worked under a portfolio manager with 100 million in capital. He later joined his father at a prop trading firm, Goose Hill LLC, which was spun off from First New York Securities.
Josh has also worked in sales, holding a position at Iason where he sold data systems to bulge bracket bangs specializing in swaps.
For the past four years, Josh has been a full-time day trader focused on trading large cap stocks. He has been trading at Investors Underground since 2015.
Key Members
A special thanks to our key members for their contributions.
Mr. Sciabica has been a very successful independent stock trader since 1999. He is well known in the trading community and has earned an exceptional reputation for his research and trading skill. During his career he has founded and managed hedge funds and a commodity pool. While he continues to devote the majority of his time to trading, he now also works with and mentors other traders. He is also an investor in several businesses.
Jim has always been an ambitious businessman. By the age of 33, Jim was running two businesses and owned a few rental properties. After achieving success in the business world, Jim wanted to find a flexible opportunity that allowed him to spend more time with his family. With no financial experience, Jim turned to the stock market.
20 years later, Jim has found success in both his family life and financial life. Jim has spent more time with his family than any husband and father can imagine, all while trading on his own schedule. Jim has been a member of Investors Underground since 2014, where he primarily trades long cap stocks on an intraday basis. He stresses the importance of common sense, simplicity, and discipline.
Tim first became interested in trading while he was still in college pursuing a finance degree. He opened small accounts a few times without having much luck in the market. Eventually, Tim started studying vigorously and developed a niche strategy to focus on. This strategy, initially focused around penny stocks, helped Grittani impressively propel his small account by the age of 24. Tim now trades NASDAQ's alongside the Investors Underground team and continues to impress the trading world with his trading style.
Mr. Kelly served as a licensed investment advisor at Lehman Brothers and Dean Witter Reynolds between 1989 and 1996. Since 1996, Mr. Kelly has been a successful independent equities trader. Mr. Kelly is also well established in the business world. He owns Tequila Ranch in Hollywood, FL and Chayo Mexican Kitchen in Las Vegas, NV.
Sean has been part of the IU team for 3+ years and focuses on helping new members find their feet in the IU community - He’s proven himself as a great resource for people who are starting out and looking for direction and assistance in the sometimes complicated world of trading
Sandro initially became interested in the stock market after moving from Switzerland to Los Angeles in 2004. After saving up some money, Sandro started investing in biotech stocks, but soon found that the slow growth of these stocks wouldn't fulfill his needs. Soon after, Sandro found Investors Underground and began developing the strategy that he utilizes today. Since then, Splendores has grown his account exponentially by focusing on short-biased swing trades. After seeing the profitability and sustainability of his trading strategy, Splendores started trading full-time and continues to do so today.
Started in the Financial Industry 29 yrs ago on Wall Street. Worked on the sell-side servicing hedge funds from all sizes and on the buy side running a $150M book. He has a deep knowledge of the inner workings of analysts upgrades/downgrades, deal flow on syndicate and secondary offerings.and what some of the largest hedge funds are doing daily mostly on the healthcare and technology side. T-530 has been a IU member for 6+ years and frequents the room daily and posts all his market intelligence as it hits various public news outlets, twitter alike.
T-530 trades actively both ways , long and short (equally) and uses options. He is a newbie at the Traders4cause Event and looks forward to being at any/all events. T-530 is always open for questions at any time and will respond after 4pm.
D4ytrad3 has been an Active trader in the markets since 2003. Having actively participated in Equity, Option, and FX markets, he draws upon his vast experience of over 500,000+ trades to continually gain insight into the ever-evolving markets.
Shane has been trading the markets for 20 years. He started out as a momentum/technical trader and has evolved into a news-based trader. Shane has been a member of IU for 6+ years now. The majority of his trading is done in the small to mid-cap Biotech sector. Shane's strategy has been refined over the years and he recommends never adding to a losing position if you want to avoid large losses. Shane values sharing headlines quickly with the room, and posting biotech trades around news/clinical trials/FDA events.
Max aka DayRanger joined the Investors Underground community as a customer on day one, around 10 years ago !. . He is now head of technology of the IU team, ensuring that the IU website / chartooms run smoothly
Mr. Sciabica has been a very successful independent stock trader since 1999. He is well known in the trading community and has earned an exceptional reputation for his research and trading skill. During his career he has founded and managed hedge funds and a commodity pool. While he continues to devote the majority of his time to trading, he now also works with and mentors other traders. He is also an investor in several businesses.
Jim has always been an ambitious businessman. By the age of 33, Jim was running two businesses and owned a few rental properties. After achieving success in the business world, Jim wanted to find a flexible opportunity that allowed him to spend more time with his family. With no financial experience, Jim turned to the stock market.
20 years later, Jim has found success in both his family life and financial life. Jim has spent more time with his family than any husband and father can imagine, all while trading on his own schedule. Jim has been a member of Investors Underground since 2014, where he primarily trades long cap stocks on an intraday basis. He stresses the importance of common sense, simplicity, and discipline.
Tim first became interested in trading while he was still in college pursuing a finance degree. He opened small accounts a few times without having much luck in the market. Eventually, Tim started studying vigorously and developed a niche strategy to focus on. This strategy, initially focused around penny stocks, helped Grittani impressively propel his small account by the age of 24. Tim now trades NASDAQ's alongside the Investors Underground team and continues to impress the trading world with his trading style.
Mr. Kelly served as a licensed investment advisor at Lehman Brothers and Dean Witter Reynolds between 1989 and 1996. Since 1996, Mr. Kelly has been a successful independent equities trader. Mr. Kelly is also well established in the business world. He owns Tequila Ranch in Hollywood, FL and Chayo Mexican Kitchen in Las Vegas, NV.
Sean has been part of the IU team for 3+ years and focuses on helping new members find their feet in the IU community - He’s proven himself as a great resource for people who are starting out and looking for direction and assistance in the sometimes complicated world of trading
Sandro initially became interested in the stock market after moving from Switzerland to Los Angeles in 2004. After saving up some money, Sandro started investing in biotech stocks, but soon found that the slow growth of these stocks wouldn't fulfill his needs. Soon after, Sandro found Investors Underground and began developing the strategy that he utilizes today. Since then, Splendores has grown his account exponentially by focusing on short-biased swing trades. After seeing the profitability and sustainability of his trading strategy, Splendores started trading full-time and continues to do so today.
Started in the Financial Industry 29 yrs ago on Wall Street. Worked on the sell-side servicing hedge funds from all sizes and on the buy side running a $150M book. He has a deep knowledge of the inner workings of analysts upgrades/downgrades, deal flow on syndicate and secondary offerings.and what some of the largest hedge funds are doing daily mostly on the healthcare and technology side. T-530 has been a IU member for 6+ years and frequents the room daily and posts all his market intelligence as it hits various public news outlets, twitter alike.
T-530 trades actively both ways , long and short (equally) and uses options. He is a newbie at the Traders4cause Event and looks forward to being at any/all events. T-530 is always open for questions at any time and will respond after 4pm.
D4ytrad3 has been an Active trader in the markets since 2003. Having actively participated in Equity, Option, and FX markets, he draws upon his vast experience of over 500,000+ trades to continually gain insight into the ever-evolving markets.
Shane has been trading the markets for 20 years. He started out as a momentum/technical trader and has evolved into a news-based trader. Shane has been a member of IU for 6+ years now. The majority of his trading is done in the small to mid-cap Biotech sector. Shane's strategy has been refined over the years and he recommends never adding to a losing position if you want to avoid large losses. Shane values sharing headlines quickly with the room, and posting biotech trades around news/clinical trials/FDA events.
Max aka DayRanger joined the Investors Underground community as a customer on day one, around 10 years ago !. . He is now head of technology of the IU team, ensuring that the IU website / chartooms run smoothly
Rising Talent
Follow the journeys of some of our rising talent.
Alex is a 23-year old trader who is studying finance at Auburn University in Connecticut. Alex has been interested in stock trading since 2014 when he learned about the stock market through a competition in economics class. Since then, he has become more and more ingrained in the world of trading. He's quickly making a name for himself and is one of the up and comers you'll want to keep an eye on.
Alex's journey started like most traders, however he was able to learn some important lessons earlier than most. He recognized early on that consistency comes from self sufficiency, and worked to develop his own skillset. Alex primarily trades large cap and NASDAQ stocks on both the short and long side. Over the years, he's scaled his accounts and continues to reach new levels.
Alex is a proud member of Investors Underground. He uses the community for idea generation and networking. Alex was able to make some beneficial connections in the IU chat room and he recommends that all traders work on networking with others.
Alex has already accomplished a lot by the age of 23. We look forward to seeing what he accomplishes in the coming year!
Jiyong discovered the world of trading in 2013, when he stumbled across some videos on youtube about trading penny stocks. He opened his first account in 2013, trading OTC and pumps both long and short.
Jiyong joined Investors Underground in 2014 & continued to learn about OTCs, while also starting to trade small caps & momentum plays - This move payed off significantly, with the transition of money from the OTC markets to the small cap plays.
Jiyong gained an audience after posting his P&L everyday for over a year on twitter - He showed impressive consistency, whilst also scaling his size, & developing skills and timing
He continues to trade small caps, but also adding trades on more liquid names to his daily arsenal.
Amp was introduced to the stock market back in his senior year of high school (2009-2010) and was instantly hooked. Saving up the funds needed to open an account was difficult, so he decided to paper trade while simultaneously learning, to stay involved and up to date with market conditions.
Veteran IU resident Elkwood took Amp under his wing, showing him the ropes and becoming his mentor - Amp’s trajectory of success is a great case study to watch, giving onlookers an insight into the value of the right tuition / experience / guidance.
Amp quit his job as a Marine construction worker to begin day trading in December 2016, and trades side by side with Elk everyday.
Amp focuses on technicals when trading intraday, but is also learning about fundamentals & how to read filings to help form a basis of the stocks he chooses to trade.