Dan Rawitch founded University of Options in 2018 upon exiting the mortgage industry after nearly 40 years. He started as a loan officer to pay his way through college. Within a few years, he had moved to New York to trade mortgage backed securities for Bear Stearns.

With his family back in California, Dan was homesick and quickly growing tired of the fast-paced opulence of 1980’s Wall Street. He begged for a transfer to the CA branch and soon returned home.

At that same time, Dan was developing Finet. The first web-based mortgage brokerage. It was not long until Dan took that company public and subsequently sold it. 

Dan proceeded to work in the mortgage industry until 2017. A notable and continuing contribution of his being Rate watch. 

Rate Watch is Dan’s daily Bond market report that he has done every day for the last 15 years, 100s of loan officers tune in and use it as guidance for locking or floating their borrower’s rate. 

Besides trading, Dan has always loved planes and boats. As a licensed pilot and captain, he’s found himself on countless adventures both local and abroad. Since then, Dan has traded in the plane and boat for a homestead in the forest, a big RV, and a truck to go with it!

Through all his different phases of life, Dan never stopped trading. He always knew that no matter what, he had trading to fall back on. That sense of security is a privilege that Dan wants to pass onto the masses.