I grew up in Chicago during the golden age of trading with the CBOE, CME, and CBOT beckoning to my classmates and I as early as grade school. Apropos, my first job during college was at an options trading firm where I joke that I learned how to value a stock option before I even knew what an income statement was! It is true. My major at the time was information systems. Since then my entire career has always involved the markets, progressing through various investment/trading related roles at both traditional and hedge fund investment firms until choosing the path of being a trusted adviser to end investors. Leveraging my background, I first advised institutions about investing in alterna