Daryl Brost Email & Phone Number

Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Responsible for research and statistical analysis for the 6 portfolio managers in the group• Focused on U.S. energy, agricultural, and precious metals futures and options• Designed a model that predicted the weekly natural gas EIA storage number more accurately than Bentek, a leading provider of data and analysis, by over 1 bcf in 2014• Research independent ideas, and develop potential trades sized to make $250,000 each• Monitor major weather models to predict short and long term moves in natural gas and power

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Assessed risk in portfolio of ~250 large cap US equities using fundamental analysis, and identified target entry and exit points with technical analysis.• Designed and programmed an options filter to quickly identify overpriced options and profit from theta decay.• Built a database of ~1000 stocks to test for and monitor potential pairs trades in real time. Used the augmented Dickey-Fuller test to check cointegration, and backtest each potential pair for historical P&L. Maintained an active list of viable pairs to quickly identify new trades.• Researched, backtested, and implemented new trading strategies.

The Reading Center provides extracurricular instruction for struggling readers. Their lessons are structured around a large battery of tests that provide feedback to parents and instructors about the child’s progress. They have been using paper records for 60 years, and wanted to transition into a modern method data structuring. • Designed from scratch a relational database in Microsoft Access using extensive SQL and VBA to accommodate the 152 tests offered, and that can support the active roster of 500 students as well as reference the test scores of the 30,000 past students• In addition to test records, the database was designed to track day to day business, such as attendance, billing and scholarship information, and staff availability• Designed and maintained the user interface database to meet the evolving needs of the cliento User interface allows non-programmer clients access to the powerful tools SQL offers without the necessity of a programming background