VIP MENTORSHIP

Daniel Roos

Dan began his career on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, where he quickly rose through the ranks to becomelead Index Trader and youngest Capital Partner at Belvedere Trading, one of the largest and most respected index market-making firms in the U.S.



For more than a decade, Dan was a head trader on the SPX market-making desk, leading a team of floor and electronic traders responsible for quoting and trading massive volumes in index options. He has firsthand experience managing order flow and risk across rapidly changing volatility regimes including the 2008 GFC, 2018 Volmageddon, and the 2020 Covid Crash.



Beyond trading, Dan also served as product owner for multiple technology teams, helping design and refine the firm’s proprietary execution algorithms and trader-facing tools. He also developed Belvedere’s first comprehensive firm-wide options theory training program, shaping the next generation of professional traders.

Dan founded VolSignals to correct the misinformation he saw proliferating online—and to bring genuine institutional insight to traders who take their craft seriously. His expertise in market microstructure, flow analysis, and the behavior of systematic participants powers the analytical foundation of everything VolSignals produces.

Matthew Nadel

Matt has spent nearly three decades trading equity derivatives at the highest levels. Before VolSignals, he built and ran derivatives desks at some of the world’s most respected financial institutions—including JP Morgan, MorganStanley, Société Générale, Royal Bank of Canada, Credit Suisse, and UBS.

Over the course of his career, Matt has managed large and complex books consisting of SPX and VIX as well as other indexes. He has led teams of traders and quants and consistently generated strong performance through a wide variety of equity and volatility regimes.

As a market maker and desk head he was responsible for pricing, execution and risk management in some of the most competitive markets in the world. His deep understanding of index volatility, correlation structures, and flow-driven price dynamics continues to shape how VolSignals approaches its analytics and education.

Matt’s strength lies in his ability to translate institutional-level experience into lessons that traders can actually use. He is able to bridge the gap between theory and reality for traders who want to think and operate like professionals.

Nick Galarnyk

Nick has spent over two decades in the finance industry, beginning his career as a financial analyst and strategic consultant before managing a hedge fund for Mokbel Capital in Toronto, Canada. At Mokbel Capital, he curated investment strategies using sophisticated option trading techniques to capture strong positive asymmetries of risk while maintaining the stringent risk management framework that became his hallmark. He developed deep expertise in probabilistic thinking, strategic execution of complex option strategies, and understanding the psychology underlying effective risk management.

Nick recognized a fundamental flaw in conventional financial education: its emphasis on theory over practical reality. Observing traders misuse options as gambling instruments rather than tools for expressing conviction with asymmetric upside, he founded Optionfinity nearly a decade ago to bridge this gap. He has since mentored over 400 individuals on utilizing options to manage risk, improve capital efficiency, and express investment theses with positive asymmetries in mind.

Nick joined VolSignals to merge his educational expertise with Dan and Matt's institutional trading experience, creating a uniquely powerful approach to financial education. His teaching philosophy centers on building fundamental understanding, mastering trading psychology, and implementing rigorous risk management, three pillars that work symbiotically to create consistently successful traders. His expertise in probabilistic thinking and analytical rigor power the foundation of everything VolSignals produces.

Outside of markets, Nick is a classical pianist, an avid hiker and gym enthusiast, and a dedicated reader and writer, pursuits that fuel the discipline and pattern recognition that define his approach to trading.