Michael S James, Managing Member

mike was born in chicago but grew up in hockessin, delaware. mike's mother was an educator/principal before retiring and mike's father was the 3rd black PhD chemist hired by DuPont at the Experimental Station, wilmington, delaware.

mike's current entrepreneurial focus is providing quantitative analysis data to retail investors seeking new innovative methods to hedge their portfolios.  mike's proprietary model involves pairs trading leveraged long & short ETFs in a delta neutral arbitrage w/o the need for trading options. institutional investor may inquire.

mike earned a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from georgia tech in 1986 with a deep concentration in math and physics. mike holds two US patents for machine design (#'s 5142875, 5286652.) while working for HP right out of school. in 1998 HP spun-off the chemical analytical measurement group (where mike worked for 12 yrs) as agilent technologies. 

in all, mike has started up 3 businesses (not including helping his wife establish her private medical practice.) his first business was an ISP he built in the mid-90's upon leaving HP to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams. he sold that business in 2001 to start an IT & network security consultancy.

mike has been married 20 yrs to his wonderful wife phyllis, is an ordained baptist minister, an avid student of christian theology, elementary particle physics, general relativity and cosmology.  as a ministry, mike provides videography and DVD production services for his church.  mike has 2 great teenage kids who play h.s. varsity & aau basketball in the off season and loves attending their events.

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Why I started Equity Informatics, LLC

mike's motivation for starting up this company was out of pure necessity from his prospective.  after the market began to experience it's first of many volatility quakes in early 2007, mike found the need to hedge his portfolio and began to wonder if buy and hold was any longer a valid investing strategy.

many 2X leveraged long and short ETFs were just being introduced to the market and seemed like a good place to start building a hedge.  after a while mike found that these ETFs did not track their index very well if held static in his portfolio.  so he starting experimenting with mixing 2x long and 2X short ETFs.

then mike sought to neutrally weight the mix of ETFs to  maintain equilibrium in volatile down & up swings.  finding the write model was key and his background in math in engineering provided fertile ground to meet his objective.

once the model was established, he began to notice a vacuum of quantitative hedging tools available to individual retail investor and began posting comments to that effect on seekingalpha.com.  many readers became interested and a product service was born.

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