Highlights
  • Registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commissoin (CFTC) and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA)
  • Registered as a CPO, CTA and IB
  • Commodity consultant offering in-depth market research and information as well as trading strategies
  • Asset management firm specializing in managed futures
    • Utilizes discretionary trading approach
    • Trades primarily agricultural market sector
  • Depth of operations includes specialized professionals providing administrative, accounting, legal, compliance and marketing services

Competitive Advantages

  • Professional trading management of Douglas E. Carper
    • Principal’s three decades experience in commodities industry serving commercial agricultural and livestock enterprises and their hedging activities
    • Registered as CTA since 1994
    • Registered as CPO since 2003
  • In-depth research process emphasizing first-hand access to some of the best research in the industry; in-house research supplemented by external sources to identify trading opportunities
  • Depth of operations
    • Administration and client service: internal resources combining experienced personnel, effective technology plus outside support offers significant capacity and infrastructure for additional growth
    • Back office and accounting services include independent third party fund accounting.

Douglas E. Carper
Founder and Principal

Douglas E. Carper is founder and sole principal of DEC Capital, Inc., an asset management firm, Commodity Pool Operator (CPO) and Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). Carper grew up on a family grain and livestock farm in Northeast Nebraska and, after studying Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska, began his career in 1973, first servicing commercial agricultural producers/users in the brokerage area and later developing commodities research and trading methodologies. In 1988, Carper began trading proprietary capital in the futures markets and in 1994 organized and registered as a CTA. During most of the 1990s, he served as a branch manager and within that time was a partner of NYSE member J.C. Bradford & Co. In 1999 DEC Capital also registered as an Introducing Broker (IB), managing a client brokerage business. For an interim period, Carper founded an affiliated company, Biltmore Asset Management, to serve as the entity for his CTA activities and to act as Commodity Pool Operator; both are now operated by DEC Capital, Inc. Carper's extensive trading and research expertise puts DEC Capital in a unique position to advise individuals and institutions on their agricultural portfolios.
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