Mr. Jay Pasch is a private futures and equities trader, philosopher, ecologist, spiritualist, advocate of balance and all things good. Mr. Pasch is in his 6th-year of full-time trading US index futures, equities, and commodities, emphasizing methodologies employing technical analysis, chart-pattern recognition, and statistics.

Prior to trading the financial markets, Mr. Pasch was president of Creative Network Solutions, Inc., his owner-established Information Technology company that specialized in communications network design and planning. Mr. Pasch has also held numerous IT-network design and planning positions with American Express, IDS Financial Services, National Institutes of Health, State of Minnesota, and others. Mr. Pasch earned his B.S. degree in Quantitative Methods and Computer Science from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mr. Pasch's interests include international travel including humanitarian missions to countries in crisis such as Bosnia/Croatia in 1995, psychology, reading, racquet sports, golf, landscape photography, interior design, children, wise old men, and Springer Spaniels. Mr. Pasch lives in the state of Minnesota USA, with his wife, Coni, and their three children.