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Dan Keegan
Options Expert
Decades of Field Experience.
I have been involved with options trading since being hired as a runner on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1978. After five years as a runner, phone clerk and floor broker I began my career as a market maker. I primarily made markets in equity options at the CBOE but I also made markets on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) in Treasury futures and options on soybean oil futures. My knowledge of options trading runs about as deep as anybody on the planet.
Worldwide Recognition.
I have lectured in China in for 1,600 students for the Beijing Futures Association. I have also given presentations for the Money Show and The All-Stars of Options Trading in both New York and Chicago. This speaks to how beneficial it would be to gain my expertise for yourself.
Hundreds Trained.
In 2008 I was one of the founders of the Chicago School of Trading. I became the Chief Options Mentor where I had the chance to develop my own formal training program that I still use today, training over 200 people this way. I also have other mentors working with me, all of them with at least 10,000 hours of trading on the various trading exchanges in Chicago.
An Innovative Mindset.
Knowing how to trade options and understanding how they can effectively be used as a hedge against an existing equity, ETF, futures or cash position is one thing. Teaching other people how to acquire that same expertise is another thing altogether
Continuously Teaching.
I probably first started teaching as a runner, dispensing my knowledge to runners who were hired two weeks after I was. That is actually true. As you progressed through the system you were always educating people with less knowledge than your own. I learned plenty from clerks as well as traders. My first formal teaching occurred after I became a market maker when I taught my clerks. When they were ready they went on to become market makers themselves, with my backing in some cases.
Still Learning.
I have written many articles for Active Trader, Futures Magazine, Modern Trader and CBOE Options Hub.
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Simon Gold
Juris Doctorate
Simon has thirty years of successful experience managing risk in options portfolios across various products including Forex, Equity Indices, and Interest rates. Simon started as an options market maker in the Japanese Yen option pit at the CME where he became a Pit Chairman of the Yen options, responsible for Pit rules and daily settlements. In 2000 Simon became a market maker in the Nasdaq 100 options pit at the CBOE where he successfully traded a portfolio during the Dot Com bust. In 2007 Simon was an options market maker in the Federal Funds interest rate option pit at the CBOT. Simon has a deep understanding of domestic and foreign macroeconomic factors which shape and move options prices globally.
Simon received a BA in Political Science and Government. Simon also has a JD from John Marshall Law School.
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John Nash
Expert Trader
John Nash was a CBOE floor trader in the SPX pit from 2001-2017 trading for a small proprietary market making firm. He also traded at the CME from 1998-2001 in the S&P 500 futures options pit. John was a CME member from 1998-2015.
John received a BA in Social Science from Colorado State.