Daniel B. Stark & Company was originally founded in 1987 by Mr. Daniel B. Stark as Stark Research Inc. Mr. Stark has over 25 years of futures experience beginning in 1981 as a local floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  There he traded his own proprietary account while aggressively studying Fibonacci and Elliot wave principles, various chart formations, cycles, and a variety of trading methodologies.

In 1987 Mr. Stark acquired the rights to the Norwood Index. The Norwood Index is one of the industry's first benchmark indexes, which began tracking 9 commodity futures funds in October 1978. Today the index tracks the performance of approximately 175 futures funds worldwide and is the oldest continuously published index on managed futures fund investments.

For the past 20 years, Daniel B. Stark & Company has been researching the managed futures industry while compiling and publishing performance statistics on futures traders and funds in their Managed Futures Research Products.

The firm is a premier data provider to PerTrac, a leading performance analysis software vendor.