William Eckhardt oversees ETC's system development and ongoing research.  He has traded futures professionally for over 31 years, and in conjunction with Richard Dennis co-developed certain trading systems and co-taught them to a group of individuals known as the "Turtles".  Mr. Eckhardt's extensive background in the history of scientific methodology and statistics
has been instrumental in the development of ETC's trading strategy.

His interests include philosophy, physics, evolutionary biology, and the nature of time.  He has written a book on the subject of time entitled, Omnitime: an essay on time and passage and his articles have been published in Mind, The Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Risk Finance, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.  He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics and is a member of the Physical Sciences Visiting Committee at the University of Chicago.  Mr. Eckhardt is profiled in Jack Schwager's Book, The New Market Wizards.