Dan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Marquette University College of Business Administration, Milwaukee Wisconsin. He started out in the options business in 1978 and worked his way up in the Chicago tradition. He aslo spent five years as a runner, phone clerk, and floor broker for A.G. Becker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).                                                                      

In 1984 Dan, with backing from legendary trader and adventurer Steve Fossett, began a more than twenty year career as an independent market maker on the floor of the CBOE. Dan has been a guest lecturer at Marquette University in Dr. David Krause’s finance class in the basics of options and in Dr. George Kutner’s derivative class in advanced options trading, and is a frequent contributor to Futures Magazine and the Option News Network.                                                                                                                       

Bill earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb Illinois. Bill began his futures industry career at the Chicago Board of Trade as a runner and then a grain analyst. He later moved to Rosenthal Collins LLC and ran the firm’s Chicago Mercantile Exchange operation until 1980, when he became an independent trader and broker.

He has been actively involved in the futures industry since 1974. In the early 1980′s, Bill began a decades long professional relationship with legendary Chicago trader Richard Dennis. Mr. Dennis is most known for his famous “Turtles” experiment where he trained a small group of people with no previous market experience and turned a majority of them into successful traders.