Dave Rodgers is an instructor and trader at MarketTaker.com. He has over 25 years of financial markets experience. He has traded futures and futures options in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange  pits and equity options in the Chicago Board Options Exchange pits. Dave oversaw an off floor trading desk which traded equity options across multiple floors simultaneously. He has also traded Natural Gas futures, options and swaps for the unregulated traded desk at Nicor Enerchange Inc. He has earned his MBA in Management at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and his B.S. in Finance and Economics from Drexel University. Dave offers a unique prospective when evaluating trades. His experiences as a futures pit trader, an options market maker, a corporate asset manager and an off floor day trader enables him touse a well-balanced methodology when evaluating trade opportunities.