Our Futures Brokers
Our brokers serve as trading advocates – advocates who are in tune to each client’s specific futures trading needs and objectives. From keeping an unwavering eye on risk, to leveraging the size and financial stability of our clearing partners, our brokers will answer questions, address concerns and never shy away from challenging orders.
Alec Torrey - Alec Torrey is a Futures & Options broker with Daniels Trading . Prior to joining the futures industry, Alec attended Texas Tech University studying Agriculture Economics. He found great interest in the commodities markets and trading while working in the local cotton industry as a farmhand in Lubbock. Alec turned his experiences in the fields and the classroom into a career where he is able to help producers and traders facing the challenges of today’s markets. He excels at providing insight to traders across the spectrum, from the new producer to the new self-directed speculator. Clients can expect a combination of energy and patience, as he understand each client’s journey is different.
Bill Peters - Even though Bill’s private clients are all industry professionals, he assists in virtually every aspect of their operations. He plays a central role in guiding clients through DT’s in-house regulatory, accounting, and marketing departments. He also leverages his widespread industry contacts to his client’s benefit by acting as a liaison and advocate with FCMs and outside technology service providers.
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.
Burton Schlichter - Burt Schlichter has over 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.
Craig Turner - Craig Turner is a Senior Ag Broker at Daniels Trading, author of Turner’s Take newsletter, and the host of Turner’s Take podcast. Craig works with farmers and other participants in the ag industry to help them meet their marketing, purchasing and trading needs. He excels in determining price ranges for the crop year and developing strategies for farmers and end users based on his analysis. Craig is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswire, and also makes appearances on SiriusXM – Rural Radio Channel 80 and Ag Day. Mr. Turner has a Bachelors from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he graduated with honors and has worked at the NYSE and Goldman Sachs. While at Goldman, Craig earned his MBA in the NYU Stern executive program.
Don DeBartolo - Due to his widespread proficiency and experience with the futures and commodity options markets, he is able to offer his clients timely insight, specialized trade recommendations, and educational information through various videos and writings.
Donna Hughes - Born and raised in the Chicagoland area, Donna has been a resident of Texas since 2004. Donna began her career in commodities at the CME Group Clearing House in 1978. It was there that she became familiar with the hog and cattle trade as she worked with the USDA to facilitate physical inspections of livestock… Read more.
Jace Jarboe - Jace Jarboe is a Futures & Options Broker with Daniels Trading. He is a licensed Series 3 and 34 broker with the NFA. Jace is the author of the Jarboe Trading Journal which focuses primarily on presenting real-time trade recommendations to clients. He specializes in the E-mini Equity and Energy futures sectors. Jace assists traders every day to speculate in the futures and options markets in pursuit of achieving their own financial reward. 
Jim Burket - Currently, Jim is Senior Vice President at Daniels Trading utilizing his extensive background in trade execution, brokerage and back office navigation. Daniels Trading has gone from a two man operation to its current position as one of the largest introducing brokers.
John Payne - John Payne is a Senior Futures & Options Broker and Market Strategist with Daniels Trading. He is the publisher of the grain focused newsletter called This Week in Grain, along with being a co-editor of Andy Daniels’s newsletter, Grain Analyst. He has been working as a series 3 registered broker since 2008.
Kirk Donsbach - Kirk Donsbach was born and raised in production agriculture. He graduated From Rocky Mountain College in 1998 and worked as a Project Manager and Electrical Designer for Foxboro and Duke Energy retrofitting Digital Control Systems into aging Power Plants. In an effort to assist his fellow producers in risk management, Mr. Donsbach became a Daniels Trading Broker in 2015.
Tom Dosdall - Tom Dosdall specializes in working with commercial participants in the agriculture industry, both growers and merchants, to better manage price risk and opportunity for the commodities they buy or sell. With the understanding that each client is independent of another, 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.
Tony Kasathsko - Tony Kasathsko was born and raised in Valencia, Venezuela. He moved at the age of 17 to Miami, Florida where he lived for over 10 years. Tony graduated from Florida International University in 1995. In 2003, after working for a day trading firm as a proprietary equity trader - he decided he wanted to enter the futures industry and left the beautiful sunny skies in Miami to move to the great city of Chicago. The fact that Tony is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese allows him to help Latin American institutions and clients when it comes to facilitating their access to the different derivative markets.