About

Two worlds.
One framework.

Dani has lived at the intersection of institutional trading and somatic awareness practice for over two decades. FPI is what happens when those two worlds are finally in the same room.

Background
CBOE Floor
Arbitrage clerk. Where the read begins before the trade does.
ES Mini Futures
1999 to 2002. The foundation of the framework.
University of Trading
Managed father's electronic trading room. Teaching begins.
Institutional Broker
Risk management at the institutional level.
Trading Infrastructure
Built a retail trading platform and supported gear, connectivity and data for HFT and institutional exchange direct connects.
Yoga · Meditation · Breathwork
12 years of teaching. A thread that began with her father and long distance running.
Reiki Master Teacher
Certified practitioner and teacher of Reiki energy work.
CranioSacral Therapy
Somatic practitioner. The body holds what the mind skips.

Dani began her trading career on the floor of the CBOE as an arbitrage clerk where market reading is instinct before it is analysis.

From there she traded ES Mini futures from 1999 to 2002, building the mechanical foundation that still drives her framework today. She went on to manage her father's electronic trading room at the University of Trading, then into institutional brokerage and risk management, and eventually into building a retail trading platform and supporting the gear, connectivity, and data infrastructure for HFT and institutional exchange direct connects.

The awareness work has roots that run just as deep. Her father introduced her to breathwork while coaching her through long distance running and used visualization exercises with his own traders at the University of Trading. That thread never left her.

Twelve years of yoga and meditation teaching followed, along with Reiki Master certification and CranioSacral Therapy practice. Her first rented healing space was in the Board of Trade. The two worlds had always been in the same place. What she discovered was that they were describing the same thing from opposite directions.

The market is indifferent to your patterns.
The trader lives inside them.

The Funded Path Institute is the synthesis. The three-layer framework exists because Dani spent two decades watching traders who had the knowledge and lacked the integration between what they knew and how they traded.

She also runs Arc and Acre Group, a real estate practice, and hosts Markets and Mindset every Wednesday in the Pitbull Traders Pit a free live session open to any trader ready to do the work beneath the trade.

Credentials

The two sides of the work.

Trading
CBOE Floor Experience

Institutional market reading from the ground up. The read that comes before the analysis.

Trading
ES Mini Futures · NQ

20+ years of index futures trading. The framework is built from what works in real sessions.

Trading
Risk Management

Institutional brokerage and HFT platform development. Risk is structural.

Awareness
Reiki Master Teacher

Certified practitioner and teacher of Reiki energy work and quantum somatic awareness.

Awareness
CranioSacral Therapy

Somatic practitioner. The body holds patterns the mind has already decided to ignore.

Teaching
Markets and Mindset

Free weekly live session in the Pitbull Traders Pit. Every Wednesday. The work in real time.

Nine weeks.
Begin September 2026.

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