Daniel B. Stark, President
Dan is a pioneer in the field of CTA research. Dan is an original founder of Granite Asset Management and also founder of one of the managed futures industry’s oldest and most prominent data base and research firms, Daniel B. Stark & Co. Dan has over 24 years of futures experience beginning in 1981 as a local floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Here he traded for his own account while studying chart formations, cycles, Fibonacci and Elliot wave principles. In 1987 Dan acquired the rights to the Norwood Index, which began tracking 9 commodity futures funds in October 1978. This index currently tracks the performance of approximately 175 futures funds worldwide and is the oldest continuously published index on managed futures investments.

Dan began publishing a monthly newsletter called the Norwood Index Report in 1987 which today is entitled the Stark Trader Analysis Report. The Norwood Index itself is now known as the Stark Fund Index. In this report Dan writes about specific technical trend analysis observations he makes on 13 different managed futures indices compiled and charted in this report. Performances on individual funds making up the Stark Fund Index are shown along with composite General Partner statistics for those firms involved in organizing and managing futures funds worldwide.

In 1989 Dan began publishing a quarterly CTA performance report which at the time was the first and only industry publication to include CTA performance charts. Today this report also includes charts on assets under management, net cumulative profits, performance momentum, and linear regression. Entitled the STAR 300 this report focuses on the top 300 traders from the 400 plus traders making up the Stark database.

For the past 10 years Dan has been working as a consultant to institutions, pool operators, and individual investors in the development, monitoring and fine tuning of various managed futures portfolios.

As a result of his breadth and depth of experience in the managed futures industry, Dan is known and respected by the majority of CTAs both domestically and internationally.