About Coquest Inc.: Coquest Inc. was founded by John Vassallo and Dennis T. Weinmann in 1990 to leverage their energy trading and brokering expertise from working on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Today the company is a full service energy brokerage and alternative investment consulting firm based in Dallas. It provides multi-national corporations, institutional banks, individual traders, oil companies, utilities and energy marketers with a single comprehensive source for market liquidity, price discovery, and intelligence with its Coquest Energy and Coquest Structured Products divisions. In 2015, it added Coquest Trade Services to pair client and traders with the best brokerage options and service providers available to them . That same year it launched Coquest Advisors, Coquest Managed Assets and Coquest Traders Research to aid investment advisors and family offices in vetting and designing alternative asset portfolios as well as develop and service Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) who trade in the futures marketss. It also helps evaluate and market futures traders through its CTA Challenge, a year-long competition for registered CTAs. Coquest Inc. is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA). Mr. Vassallo served on the NFA board from 2002-2012. Coquest is also a member of the National Introducing Brokers Association. (www.coquest.com).