Trade Futures, Spreads and Options with Confidence.
Since 1995, we've provided customized services to thousands of traders. OUR CULTURE IS ONE OF TRUST. OUR MISSION: Independence, Objectivity and Reliability.
Futures trading services personalized and aligned with your goals.
With a variety of market approaches for traders and producers at every level, we provide the education and tools you need to optimize your trading experience.
Assistance (Hands-Off or Hands-On)
Trade directly through an online futures trading platform, work with a broker of your choice, or let someone else do the trading for you. It’s all in your control.
Education and Insight
Traders and producers can gain priceless insight and confidence through our expertly crafted educational materials, including guides, charts, calculators, tutorials, videos, reference materials, news, and more.
Trading Platform and Tools
With all of the features you need to handle even the most advanced trading strategies and order management, our trading software will instantly make your job easier.
Solutions to Meet Your Objectives
With a variety of market approaches for traders and producers at every level, we provide the education and tools you need to optimize your trading experience.
Personalize Your Trading.
Customize futures trading arrangements based on your unique needs, experience level, and style.
Run a Better Ag Operation.
Tap into the pulse of the global grain scene to leverage trade ideas, ag market planning and hedging advice.
Discover Commodity Investing.
Explore solutions to participate in commodities without actively trading, and create a plan tailored to you.
Gain Perspective.
With a variety of insight-packed advisories from our experts, get valuable ideas to inform your trading.
Continue Learning.
Expand your trading skills with comprehensive educational tools and ongoing learning opportunities.
Be Prepared.
Approach the markets with confidence. Get free access to key trading resources and reference tools.
Meet Our Brokers
Alec Torrey
Alec excels at providing insight to traders across the spectrum, from the new producer to the new self-directed speculator. His hands-on experience and deep background in agriculture gives him the patience and energy to help clients of all levels of knowledge
Broker Facts:
Expertise: Ag markets
Role: Futures & Options Broker
Fascinating fact: He gained his experience working as a farmhand on a cotton farm.
Andrew Pawielski
Andrew’s experience and expertise is not just in full-service brokerage support, but also in the industry’s leading managed futures, automated trading systems, education, trading technology, and third-party indicators that are available to both retail and institutional clients.
Broker Facts:
Number of years as a futures broker: 13
Passion: Market Dimensions Advisory (MDA)
Favorite saying: “Know your second trade first.”
Ben Kim
Ben works with clients to help them achieve their goals in futures trading. He understands that all individual traders are at different experience levels and have various ways of approaching the markets. Ben believes money management is fundamentally the most important factor that determines success in the markets.
Broker Facts:
Market focus: Metals, energies, currencies, grains, and financials
Analysis approach: Look for fundamental information to confirm the technical indicators
Role: Futures & Options Broker
Brian Cullen
Brian Cullen is a Senior Futures and Options Broker and Market Strategist with Daniels Trading. He is the publisher of The Cullen Outlook newsletter and the author of How To Guide: 10 Rules for Technical Futures Trading and How To Guide: 12+ Candlestick Formations Every Technical Trader Should Know, guides for traders looking to learn or improve their technical trading skills.
Broker Facts:
Success tip: He scans the market section every day looking for technical setups and chart formations.
Fraternity: Sigma Chi (Epsilon Upsilon Chapter of Arizona State University)
Burton Schlichter
Burton “Burt” Schlichter has more than 20 years of futures trading experience, including educating, mentoring, and executing for retail and institutional clients. He places a strong emphasis on trading the markets from a technical standpoint and on utilizing spread trading. Additionally, Burt has extensive knowledge of options trading strategies.
Broker Facts:
- Goes by: “Burt”
Favorite quote: “I don’t believe in Holy Grails. Plan the trade. Trade the plan.” – B. Schlichter - Favorite pro tips: “6 Keys to Successful Trading”
Craig Turner
Craig Turner is a Senior Broker at Daniels Trading, author of Turner’s Take Newsletter and Podcast and Turner’s Take Ag Marketing. Craig is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswire, and Corn & Soybean Digest, and also makes appearances on SiriusXM — Rural Radio Channel 80, providing commentary for the grain and livestock markets.
Broker Facts:
Favorite market: Grains
Favorite pizza: Biased toward New York style, but he loves both.
Favorite sports team: Liverpool FC!
Don DeBartolo
Don’s responsibilities as a broker include providing market analysis, trade execution, and money management to his clients around the world. In March 2010, he developed a formal trade advisory, Trade Spotlight, for clients of the firm seeking specific trade recommendations and subsequent risk management.
Broker Facts:
Started out as: An arbitrage clerk in the S&P futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).
Specializes in: Futures and commodity options, option writing.
Played for: The Chicago Griffins rugby club.
Donna Hughes
In 1980, Donna became Series 3 licensed and joined a firm led by prominent pork belly hedger George Segal where she expanded on her knowledge of physical commodities by hedging and merchandising pork bellies. It was during that time that Donna gained the knowledge and experience for hedging and markets that she utilizes today to assist producers in their Risk Management strategies.
Broker Facts:
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Currently Resides: Abilene, Texas
Area of Expertise: Commodity Commentary
Drew Rathgeber
Drew joined Daniels Trading in 2010, opening and managing a branch office and expanding his clientele base working in six execution categories: Online Self-Directed, Broker Assisted, Managed, Commodity Trading Advisor, Automated Systems, and Hedging. Many of Drew’s clients have been with him for 10+ years, and he builds these relationships through mutual trust.
Broker Facts:
Author of: Rath Overlay and Accumarkets
Sporting passion: Surfing (ask him to show you the medals he won this year!)
Other sporting passion: Nationally ranked masters swimmer and competitive open-water long-distance swimming.
Jace Jarboe
Jace is devoted to learning all aspects of the futures industry and is dedicated to helping his clients achieve their short- and long-term trading goals. Jace assists clients in a variety of commodity sectors, with both speculating and hedging, and through utilizing futures, options, spreads, and spot FX.
Broker Facts:
He writes blog posts: Blog Posts by Jace
And e-books: eBooks by Jace
And has hosted a ton of webinars: Webinars by Jace
Jake Swart
Jake initially interned for Daniels Trading while still in college, and he gained an excitement about the markets that propelled him into a career as a broker after graduation. He has dedicated himself to learning as much as he can about the futures industry since the first time he walked through the door, and he uses that knowledge to assist his clients every day.
Broker Facts:
Graduated from: University of Illinois at Chicago
How often he blogs: Once a week
Role: Junior Futures & Options Broker
Jeff Coglianese
Jeff started with Daniels Trading when they were a Division of Linnco Futures Group (LFG) and has been with there ever since. He draws on more than 18 years of experience in the futures markets, as well as his formal training in finance to tailor hedge programs to fit the specific needs of his clientele.
Broker Facts:
Alma mater: DePaul University
Graduate degree: MBA
Role: Senior Broker
Jim Burket
In 1990, Jim received an intriguing offer from Andy Daniels to join him at Linnco Futures, and they have worked together ever since. Currently, Jim is Senior Vice President at Daniels Trading, using his extensive background in trade execution, brokerage, and back-office navigation. He has watched Daniels Trading grow from a two-man operation to its current position as one of the largest introducing brokers.
Broker Facts:
First job: Menswear retail sales
Where he learned the futures business: As a clerk in the treasury bond futures pit on the Chicago Board of Trade grain floor.
Years in the industry: 25+
John Payne
John is a Senior Futures & Options Broker and Market Strategist with Daniels Trading. He is the publisher of the grain-focused newsletter, This Week in Grain and the Swine Times.
Broker Facts:
Former career: U.S. Navy
How he thinks of clients: As teammates
Why he joined Daniels Trading: The integrity and straightforward approach of the management team and brokers
Jonathon Haralson
Jonathon is a 6th generation farmer from North Texas where he and his family grew wheat, cattle, and pecans. In 2018 he joined Daniels Trading as a series 3 broker with a desire to help farmers and ranchers deal with the same challenges he faces on a daily basis with his own farm.
Broker Facts:
Alma mater: Texas A&M University
Degree: Agricultural Development with an emphasis in Beef Cattle and Dairy Science
Kirk Donsbach
Kirk was born and raised in production agriculture. His experience in hedging was developed over 14 years of hands-on experience helping to manage his family’s cow/calf operation. In an effort to assist his fellow producers in risk management, Kirk became a Daniels Trading Broker in 2015.
Broker Facts:
Graduated from: Rocky Mountain College
Sits on: The board of the local public school
Second job: Managing/operating the family cow/calf operation in rural Montana
Tom Dosdall
Tom has supported traders and investors worldwide across all Daniels Trading execution categories. With the understanding that each client is unique, Tom has shown an ability to listen to the needs of each and match them with the service or product that best suits their circumstances.
Broker Facts:
Author of: Technical Ag Knowledge
Market perspective: 80% technical, 20% fundamental
Expertise: Grains, cattle, dairy, and lean hog markets
Tony Kasathsko
Tony was born and raised in Valencia, Venezuela. The fact that Tony is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese allows him to help Latin American institutions and clients when facilitating their access to different derivative markets.
Broker Facts:
Guest speaker location: Spain (where he taught point-and-figure charts to traders)
Year he left sunny Miami for chilly Chicago: 2003
Number of Languages spoken: Three – English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Traders are only as good as the tools they use. If you aren’t using a robust, feature-rich platform like dt Pro, you might not be working to your full potential. Whether you are just starting out as a trader or are looking to upgrade your experience, we believe dt Pro is one of the top-performing futures trading software platforms for a reason.
All Major Futures Markets at Your Fingertips
What would you like to trade?
We can work with you to begin trading futures or options—or build on your experience and knowledge—in the most popular commodity markets.
Agriculture markets
A wide range of products, including corn, wheat, cattle, lumber, coffee and cotton.
Foreign exchange (FX) markets
More than 30 currencies around the world.
Interest rate markets
Eurodollars, U.S. Treasury securities, 30-day Fed funds and interest rate swaps.
Energy markets
Crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, heating oil and electricity.
Equity Index markets
US equity stock indices such as the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and NASDAQ 100.
Metals markets
Precious metals—gold, silver and platinum—as well as industrial metals like copper.
Our customers love our services
“My broker, who is a senior member of the team, and is often in the media giving interviews about commodity markets, takes the time to give me the same type of information I believe he would give to someone with 20 times my account value. He also does not shunt me off to his assistant, but takes the time himself to provide detailed analysis of the market we are trading in. He and his assistant care about their clients and routinely call or email with trade recommendations and advice. Great value for the money so far.”
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